Talk:Märklin

message: Does anyone have evidence/proof/citations of how Maerklin was "better" then Erector or Meccano? Thanx 69.142.2.68 21:25, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, to start with, the Märklin and Meccano products were mostly identical ... for the simple reason that the original Märklin product was Meccano, manufactured in Germany for or by Meccano Ltd.'s German offshoot company. Märklin had been Meccano Ltd's German distributor - when WW1 broke out, "Meccano Germany" got taken over and Märklin acquired it (along with the German manufacturing rights), sold the existing stock as "Märklin Meccano" and then continued to manufacture their own sets after the war, with a change of product name and a number of deliberate divergences from the parent product to avoid confusion, and avoid being sued for misrepresentation. I've handled both, and  don't see any obvious reason for singling out the Märklin product as being better quality. ErkDemon (talk) 19:00, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

text: Regarding Märklin Metall vs Gilbert Erector, the original Erector did use thinner, shape-stamped trusses, but Gilbert then acquired the rights to make Meccano in the US, and the American Erector sets increasingly ended up incorporating a lot of Meccano-specification parts (and then their US variations), and essentially became "American Meccano" by another name. Much later, Meccano France bought the rights to the Erector name, and started selling the same boxes as either Meccano sets or Erector sets, depending on what name was regarded with most affection in a given sales territory. So for very recent sets, there's no difference between "modern Meccano" and "modern Erector", other than the name and logo used on the packaging and paperwork. ErkDemon (talk) 19:00, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  ", but of better quality." 

message: For what it's worth, I've started an article over on Wikibooks where I'll hopefully be putting some notes on Marklin's C track. --65.57.245.11 21:18, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  C Track Geometry 

message: "Märklin kann seine Mitarbeiter nicht bezahlen
Märklin kann seinen Mitarbeitern das Januar-Gehalt nicht überweisen. Das gab es noch nie - selbst als das Unternehmen 2006 kurz vor der Insolvenz stand. Verhandlungen mit den Hausbanken sollen eine Lösung bringen, doch diese sind skeptisch, ob Märklin überhaupt sanierungsfähig ist."
From www.handelsblatt.com - Erik Baas (talk) 16:00, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Märklin bankrupt ? 

message: Older Maerklin tracks did not have studs; they had an actual third rail, see, e.g., http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/84571706/Marklin_TIN_PLATE_3_RAIL_TRAIN_TRACKS_5_Curves.html.Kdammers (talk) 05:44, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third rail 

message: The German wiki page for Marklin has way more content. I would like to translate and transfer the German language content to the English page.
What say you ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul Matcalfe (talk • contribs) 19:42, 5 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  German site has way more content 

message: I've added a link to the Märklin section on the Brighton Toy and Model Index site. It lists most of the Brighton Toy and Model Museum collection, and also has subsections for most of the Märklin product ranges up until the mid-C20th (like Märklin Metall), and has around ~1,200 restored Märklin catalogue images. 
I work at the museum. However the usual WP "conflict of interest" rules discouraging the posting of links to one's own organisation seem not to apply for people associated with organisations in the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) sector. I'm hoping that there will be  no objections to this. ErkDemon (talk) 18:41, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  +Brighton Toy and Model Museum link 

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