Bub (toy manufacturer)

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Bub was a German manufacturer of tin toys . The brand name is continued today in the model car area.

history

The company was founded by Karl Bub in Nuremberg in 1851 . Little is known of the company's early days; Lacquered tin toys with and without a clockwork drive were produced.

Toy cars and toy trains have been manufactured since around 1905, which subsequently became the focus of the product range. Even before the First World War , the company was producing electric trains as well as clockwork-driven trains.

In order to circumvent the protective tariffs imposed by Great Britain on imported toys after the end of the war , Bub set up a branch in Aylesbury in cooperation with Tipp & Co. , a toy manufacturer also based in Nuremberg, which served the British market until the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 was produced.

In the 1920s and 1930s the company was one of the most important German toy manufacturers. In particular, the attractively designed and robust cars were in great demand and gained significant market share.

In 1932, Bub took over tools, production facilities and prefabricated toy products from the bankrupt former market-leading competitor Bing . According to more recent findings (see Manfred Dietz's lecture at the Tinplateforum 2005), the Bing tools were only used by Bub from 1935 and only in part; Bub sold other parts of the tools to J. Kraus or other companies.

The boy model of a high-speed railcar for the 00 gauge table track, which was announced in the 1937 catalog, but was apparently only sold in very limited numbers, is in great demand.

During the Second World War, the Bub'sche factory in Nuremberg was completely destroyed.

After the end of the war, the plant was completely rebuilt. The company under the then owner Heinz Huck tried to build on earlier successes by bringing an assortment of electric trains of the less common nominal size S onto the market from 1948 . As the top model of the range, a class 05 steam locomotive was brought out in the standard version without streamlined cladding. However, the demand on the West German market for this niche product remained far below expectations, and the company suffered major financial losses. The ambitious S-gauge program was completely discontinued in 1958.

Bub then switched to the production of undemanding, cheap sheet metal toy trains of the 0 gauge and later the H0 gauge (so-called "department store trains "). However, both the railways and the small range of other toys were too unattractive and hardly found buyers, so that production was stopped in 1966 and the company was dissolved.

In 2002 the Bub brand was revived under new owners and has since served as a brand for model cars in 1/87 and 1/43 scale.

literature

  • Gustav Reder : With clockwork, steam and electricity: From toys to model trains . 2nd Edition. Alba Buchverlag, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-87094-455-2 .
  • Rudger Huber: tin toys. Cars - motorcycles . Weltbild, 1995, ISBN 3-8289-0794-6 .
  • BUB primer . Illustrated collector's catalog 2003–2008. In: Edition 5 . BUB Toys.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.trixstadt.de: 1929 - Insolvency of the Bing works after the New York stock market crash , accessed on December 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ www.trixstadt.de: Der Bub SVT from 1937 , accessed on December 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ Olli: > metal: 87 - metal models in 1:87 scale - diecast models in 1 / 87th scale. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .

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