Egger-Bahn
Egger ( Egger -Bahn ) was a model railway manufacturer from Munich.
- 2.1 Narrow Gauge Railway Models
- 2.2 Electronic Experimental Kit Lectron
History
Egger -Bahn to 1967
The company was founded in 1963 by three siblings in the Egger family, the line parted shortly after the engineer Theodor Egger and merchant Johann Egger, while the third family member retired from the company again. As an investor in 1964 took part in the company Constantin Film in the company and also took influence on the products: So from now on / Winnetou films of the period were also produced Westernzugmodelle based on the Old Shatterhand, who were not a success. In 1967 the firm was dissolved again, sold remaining inventories and production to the French model railway manufacturer Jouef.
The 1967 presented at the Nuremberg Toy Fair expansion of the range of models of the Zillertal railway was no longer produced due to lack of financial opportunities. Later, these models have been revised accordingly taken up by the Austrian model railway manufacturer Liliput and have since been made to date.
Jouef from 1967-1994
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Jouef led the production after the takeover of Egger -Bahn continued virtually unchanged until 1971. The sale of the relevant products was carried out until 1973.
In 1983, the forms of production are being rediscovered. It comes in 1985 to resume the production of the new edition (indicated by a gray instead of blue packaging carton ) of some revised vehicle models and single additional newly designed vehicle models up to 1994. At this time, had the then owner of Jouef, the French play and toys group CEJI, putting his balance. Jouef took under the last owners, the Lima group, Hornby, production of model trains in the track H0e still not back on.
Egger -Bahn from 2003
2003 start Theodor Egger from Switzerland and Ruud Wittekoek from the Netherlands once again reboot and reactivate the brand name and distribution rights. To date, numerous new models have appeared in substantially improved construction type, also accessories ( hub ) and is available by separate newly constructed trolleys with coreless motors with which the previous Egger -Bahn locomotives can be converted in order to achieve realistic handling ( field, track typical slow speed).
Products
Narrow Gauge Railway Models
The light railway and light railway models were produced at a scale of 1:87 for the track H0e in the nominal size H0. That the vehicle models can run on tracks with a model track gauge of 9 mm, the tracks of nominal size N, which corresponds to the example of a model - track width of 750 mm and 760 mm.
Electronics experimentation system Lectron
In 1966 the product range to include electronics experimentation system " Lectron " has been expanded. On May 18, 1967 its inventor Georg Franz Greger patented system ( patent 1,228,081 )
Egger Lectron The experimental system was offered by Georg Franz Greger together with the Egger- Bahn GmbH under the name " Egger Lectron " 1966-1967. The end of 1967 the Egger- Bahn GmbH was dissolved and taken over Lectron of Braun AG.
There were six cases of this system:
- 800 - Mini - Lectron
- 8000 - base system
- 8100 - Expansion System 1
- 8200 - Expansion System 2
- 8300 - Basic Expansion System 1
- 8400 - Basic Expansion Expansion 1 2
The basic system 8000 for 20 different experiments with manual cost 87,00 DM
Brown engineer Manfred Walter introduced the system in 1974 as an independent company further and gave these reasons of age in 2001, including production of the Frankfurt Association for Social Homes donated the boxes are now produced in a sheltered workshop until today.