Changes in 2008

 
Christmas 2008:
  • detailed pages about the clockwork and battery engines for the locos
  • Advertising the 750 excavator - and an unpunched tin-plate
  • 4 FCW-Catalogues as of 1954, 1958, 1960 and 1961
  • Obletter catalogue page 1957
  • new pictures at the set 155, more info at the sets 235, without-1 and -9
  • Details about the Vickers Viscount BEA G-ALWE
  • advertising a 1810 Giant
  • the ways a 855 excavator truck made - and the corresponding prices
  • "Economic Celebrities" with Hans Biller on the Nuremberg Toy Fare 1954
  • added a link to Jörg Dressels Biller layout
  • and a little more
 
OCT - 31 - 2008:
  • Catalogue 1949, in German and French
  • 3 versions of the 1965 price list
  • new pictures at the red 1013 B
  • the Holograph at the 1013 Orange
  • revised the "manning" at the 504
  • better pictures at the 508 and 509 variation wagon
  • added unpunched tin-plates at the 522 goods wagon, the 1 control panel for the 1820 E and 860 truck
  • 023 railroad crane completely revised
  • better pictures and amended text  at the helicopters 1299 and 1302
  • new and better picture at the pre-war Habi-Auto 1208
  • created the 188 Transformer page - showing one version - the other one to follow
  • and as usual - some "peanuts".
 
APR-26-2008:
  • Specials 1959
  • Catalogue 1962 FCW
  • Novelties 1965 – level crossing – Set 230 and 239
  • Price list 1974
  • 4 x 502 Box
  • 503 available until 1967
  • Added and amended sets 149, 200,
  • 201, 210, 211 und 600
  • Added and amended sets supplementary sets Z3 – Z1
  • revised track section
  • Pilot Trainer Swiss Air and PanAm
  • 1430 as novelty in  1969 – Made in Hong Kong Motors
  • 845 - new truck pictures
  • Layout Gasser
  • an as usual - some "peanuts"
 
FEB-29-2008:
  • splitted the clockwork Diesel list - into "until 1965" and "1966 and later"
  • Price list and Specials 1958
  • the green and black 500 with text corrections
  • displayed the difference of the 013 and 500 clockwork
  • at lot of "minor add-ons" on all locomotive pages
  • listed the "new" 1503 battery tender - as found in the 1958 price list
  • added another detail at the red 511 side tippers
  • picture of the hand operated Dock Yard Crane 085
  • Dock Yard Crane 095 amended
  • several Sets amended, corrected and added
  • more information at the 1800 and 1810 Giants
  • battery truck with red cables
  • inserted the maker Georg Grötsch Nuremberg as maker of the clockworks for the 1208 Auto and Junkers W-33
  • did "some" paperwork at the Bimbo 060, Figuro 070 Trans World Flyer and Vickers Viscount
  • added 2 remakes at the 090 and 115 helicopters
  • added 2 editions of  the retailers Journal "Das Spielzeug" at the 040 race car and the 155 train set
  • and a lot of minor, mainly textual or grammar corrections