This was given to me possibly at the end of the 40s . As a clockwork toy it was revolutionary at the time. Trolley buses were still in use but this was a replica of the no 142 bus which ran along the ...
This exquisite toy, an 0-gauge clockwork locomotive and its coaches, was built in the Bing Brothers' Toy Factory in Nurembourg ca 1922. Ignaz and Adolf Bing were Jewish and by 1900 their factory was ...