The Lehmann large course (LGB) is a weatherproof garden model course in the nominal size IIm with one (track width of 45 mm, yardstick 1:22,5 - actual depending upon concrete model 1:16 to 1:29).

Models

Due to the track width the models are mostly narrow-gauge railways, whereby emphasis is with Swiss courses course, Furka Oberalp course and BVZ Zermatt course), German and Austrian narrow-gauge railways as well as some North American distances.

2005 were offered modern series to the German course for the first time after model of a standard gauge locomotive (BR 101).

The standard assortment is enough from the crocodile (RhB Ge 6/6 I) up to the American Disneyland locomotive. Since 1968 the small steam engine Stainz of the national courses is in the program of Lehmann. One finds the Stainz also in the Firmenlogo of Lehmann.

Due to the mixture of several yardsticks due to the different model PUR-widths the products are regarded of many fastidious model construction amateurs not as models but rather as toys.

History

The enterprise Ernst Paul Lehmann patent work was created as factory for sheet metal play goods 1881 in Brandenburg a.d. Havel. 1950/51 took place the resettlement after Nuremberg.

The LGB 1968 to play-warm-eat for the first time in Nuremberg the public presented. Already with this presentation the model course could prove their weather resistance. Before the fairground first models turned their rounds in the Schneetreiben.

The company headquarters of LGB manufacturer Ernst Paul Lehmann patent work lies in Nuremberg in the industrial area to the Saganerstrasse.

For some decades LGB is present in the USA with its own factory and agency.

Playmobil

The tracks and clutches of the LGB found also on the play railway of Playmobil use, so that these could be combined. With the introduction of the line "Toytrain" the same buyer category as those by Playmobil was addressed. Thereupon Playmobil decided to launch the play railway again without use of LGB parts.

Related links

• Homepage of LGB

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