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Carrera Servo – Slotracing without the slot

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Towards the end of the 70s the Carrera Company of Germany produced a slot-less car racing system in 2 scales. The big one, called Carrera Servo 132 was in 1:32 scale. The cars where adapted from the original Carrera Universal system and Carrera Servo 160 where the cars where based on the Carrera 160 slot system. While the cars where adaptations of the existing cars, the track was a complete new invention. Instead of a slot and 2 or 3 power rails the system had 4 power rails, one beside the other. 1 car would use the outer rails and the other one would use the inner rails.

Carrera Servo 132 Trucks racing with VW Bully as moving obstacle

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History of Slot Cars

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

UK … the Home of the scalextric set, some even say the home of slot racing. Historical accounts though place the birth of the slot car in the US with the Lionel Manufacturing Co. , well known for its electrical train sets, producing the first commercially available set. It was approximately 1/24 scale or 1/2 inch-1-foot and was patented by J. Lionel Cowen for the Lionel Corporation. (more…)

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Kriegslok BR52 – a brief history

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

OK dear readers of this blog, you are interested in the BR52 and the Trumpeter model.  The BR 52 is the best known of the Kriegsloks (warlokomotives) of the German Reichsbahn. Building started in 1942 but not by a single company. For this project the majour locomotive works where put together into the GGL, Gemeinschaft Großdeutscher Lokomotivhersteller (“Consortium of German Locomotivebuilders”). The initial plan stated a production of 15000 locomotives, of which roughly 7000 where actually built by the members of this consortium.

Those machine where numbered 52 001 to 52 7794. The first one, 52 0001 was a special show comission since it had the Hakenkreuz on the smokechamber door. It was run around all of Germany. The locomitives with the runningnumbers 52 1850–1986 where machines with the initial 5 axle “Kondenstender” while the numbers 2 1987–2027 had 4 axle tenders.

The BR52 is a more simplified version of the BR50 which was the major goods hauler from 1939 and was the “Übergangskriegslokomotive” (temporary war locomotive). Due to it’s success and simplicity the BR52 did run until late in the 80′s.

External Link: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRB_Baureihe_52

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Tamiya King Cobra – History

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

The Tamiya “King Cobra” is actually a “DeTomaso Sport 5000 Spider (Fantuzzi)” and is not affiliated with the Shelby “King Cobra” like the name suggests. The link between the DeTomaso and Shelby was created by the Tamiya slot car and because of rumours that Shelby wanted to buy some of the cars. The design of the original was by Peter Brock, Shelby Engineer, who delivered something similar in design to the 1964 “Lang-Cooper”, a special Version of the King Cobra.
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