Lionel pre-kbn trains

K.B.N. KARL BUB NUREMBURG TRAINS GERMANY

KBN stands for Karl Bub, Nuremburg. Bub was a German toy company founded by a man named Karl Bub i n the late 19th century and manufacturered their p roducts in the city of Nuremburg, where most of the German toy companies were located. They produced a wide variety of trains in both clockwork and electric and over the years made trains in 1, O and OO/HO gauges. However, their products were always made for the lower end of the m arket and never reached the quality of companies l ike Marklin (the most famous of the German train m anufacturers, still in business today). In 1933, B ub acquired the tooling of the Bing company, another manufacturer of similar products. This was b ecause Bing was a Jewish-owned company and the *** took power at this time. After WWII, Bub continued making trains, but as the years went on, t he company suffered major financial difficulties. They were eventually forced to close i n 1963.

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