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Name: Bemo
Country:
Germany
- Uhingen
Founder: Harald Göbel
Founded: 1976
Web: https://www.bemo-modellbahn.de/
Bemo history
The company was founded in 1976 by Harald Göbel, a former employee of the model train manufacturer Röwa, which went bankrupt in 1975. The announcement at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in 1976 of the production of the first narrow-gauge model in large-scale production technology, a bogie diesel locomotive V51/V52, was the starting signal. Matching wagons and a first steam locomotive model as a kit in white metal/cast brass construction made it possible a little later to bring a piece of Württemberg branch line romance to the home model railway layout.
In 1978, the electric locomotive Ge 4/4 I and standard car I were added to the program of the Grisons meter gauge railroad RhB in eastern Switzerland, whose extensive fleet of vehicles served as a model for numerous models in the following years. Right from the start, great importance was attached to printing the vehicles with different operating numbers or coats of arms and individual details in accordance with the prototype, as well as for different eras. Later, models of other narrow-gauge mountain railroads in Switzerland, a number of steam locomotives based on Saxon models and even individual standard-gauge vehicles such as the 624/634 and 650 series railcars (Regioshuttle) and two Swiss steam locomotive models in metal construction were added.
In 1981, the narrow gauge program was taken over by Merker and Fischer.
Current production
The Bemo range mainly includes vehicle models in the H0m and H0e gauges (nominal size H0) on a scale of 1:87 and 0m (nominal size 0) on a scale of 1:43.5 based on models from Swiss meter-gauge railroads and narrow-gauge railroads in Saxony and Württemberg.
Vehicle models based on Austrian models and models in H0 gauge and in N gauge on a scale of 1:160 round off the range.
The large series models are made of plastic, small series models in brass and kits and finished models in white metal. Production has been carried out in Uhingen since 1976, with the exception of a few vehicles that are important for train formation, which are offered in cooperation with a foreign partner despite low quantity expectations or minimal variant potential, whereby the development of these models takes place in Uhingen.
