The Kindler & Briel GmbH (Kibri) are one of the oldest manufacturers of play goods from

History

The company was created 1895 in under the name at that time Kindler and Briel and manufactured originally only metal toy. Other materials usually came from suppliers. Numerous play goods, primarily made of sheet metal, were produced among other things for pupating tubes and buyer shops as well as accessories for model railways.

With collecting tanks particularly estimated are relatively simple out of sheet metal designed, but by skillful figuration and color choice the very effective stations, signal towers, railroad overpasses and other for the model courses of the traces 1, 0 and 00 of the years 1930 to 1940 and 1949 to 1955.

After the Second World War metalworking was replaced slowly by the plastic injection moulding technology. Kibri became beside Faller one of the most important manufacturers of model course accessories.

1973 were stopped production by an arson attack on the factory, but 1975 were established to new building. The moreover one a production location in tuft hole in the Black Forest exists. Unfortunately also the Kibri Firmenarchiv was destroyed with the major fire of the parent plant. To that extent one is today dependent on old catalogs and collections, in order to after-draw the history of the company Kibri.

Assortment

Kibri manufactures building kits in the yardsticks H0, N and Z as well as models of road vehicles on a scale HO.

Related links

• Official side of Kibri

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