Fandor

The Jos.. Kraus and Co. is colloquially referred to as Kraus- Fandor and was a toy manufacturer, which was founded in 1910 by Josef Kraus and his nephew Milton and Julius Forch bucket in Nuremberg as a general partnership. The name of the company includes an acronym from the name composition of the mother and aunt of the founder, Dora and Fanny, results. The company was a typical representative of the "Nuremberg manufacturer" of so-called sheet railways. Kraus- Fandor presented clockwork -powered and electric model trains from sheet forth in lane 0 and 1. The product was distributed largely through department store assortments. The company's brand was KRAUS Fandor JKCo N Germany, KRAUS or Fandor. The term Fandor was mostly used only for export. The company was founded in 1938 already set again after Josh. Kraus had probably already left Germany in 1933 for political reasons. Kraus- Fandor was provided in 1943 by law in receivership. In 1963, the deletion from the commercial register Nuremberg.

Fandor / Dorfan

The toy trains produced were partially aligned with the American model, which is why in the U.S. there was a high demand. Protective tariffs made ​​it difficult, however the company after the First World War, to compete with American toy manufacturers, which is why the Forch Bucket brothers together with an engineer emigrated to America, where they (New Jersey) the company Dorfan founded in Newark ( only offset letter sequence of Fandor ). With this company, they specialized in railways of nominal size 0 and standard nominal sizes ( standard gauge). It was produced in zinkpestanfälligen diecasting process. Already in 1934, also had this operation to stop its production, the distribution was maintained until 1936.

Patents

Between 1910 and 1934, numerous patents with the Imperial Patent Office were later Reich Patent Office (now the German Patent and Trademark Office ) account. On 1 February 1910 the " rail joint compound for toy trains with spring lock for the in-head of a rail end plug pin ". ( Original description from the patent ) patented. In the same year a special patent for the connection between the rail and the tie in toy trains has been granted. Another notable patent is the invention of an automatic mechanical coupling between toy trains.

Upper pathways

The company produced one of the few former toy manufacturer called catenary lines. With the movement tracks and a contact wire in the modern game and real art of this time could be mapped. The then-common strand center conductor at the electrical tracks was saved. The track structure thus corresponded to the reality. The power was supplied via the movement track and the flexible pantograph on the locomotive. The flexible pantographs inequalities in the tracks could be easily compensated. When using a standard three-wire track, it was now possible to control two trains on a plant independently.

Streamlined locomotives 05001

The company conformed to the trend and the technical progress of time and turned off the mid-1930s, a streamline steam locomotive forth. This in tin printing process in a very simplified version. At the front of the locomotive, the numbers " 05001 " were printed, in accordance with the Reichsbahn model. The same model was available from the company in a silver color finish and a somewhat smaller stream line steam locomotive in red design. The locomotives were offered in both clockwork operation and for AC operation.