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Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111
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Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:35:34 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Eric Strand wrote:
In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote:

Hi Eric,

thanks for the links into your samsonite sets gallery - I wasn't aware about
that cool resource and have bookmarked it immediately!

I agree with your guess, that Frank might have had a 111 AND a 4.5V motorized
set like 107 (or more likely a 100 or 103). The picture of the motorized engine
on the floor might come from a mini-catalogue picture, the motor set or the
building instruction - all these papers have often shown how to build motorized
versions of engines. (Although I have to admit that my European 111 instruction
is the exception to this "rule" and shows nothing more than to build the train
itself.)

The box design of his sets appears to be the 111 in US version and LEGO has
always had different box designs for each set afaik. So I would still bet on 111
as Frank's first train set.

Leg Godt!

Ben

Ben, I've done some further research -

I just placed some scans of my 1968 Samsonite catalog online here:
http://home.comcast.net/~strand_lego/3369-US/
I don't think that 100 or 103 were available in the USA so I'm still guessing

I'm going to verify at home tonight, but I have the 103 with the box and I'm
quite sure it didn't come from EU

http://sparky.i989.net/legop5.htm

I'll have a boo at the box as well as the instructions...

Dave K

<snip>



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  Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111
 
(...) Hey Dave, Yes please let us know. While doing my research on old Lego sets, I sometimes find that USA and Canada have the same sets. Then other times Canada will have some sets the same as Europe, but they are not found in the USA. Then other (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
  Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111
 
In lugnet.trains, David Koudys wrote:> (...) Dave, I'm very interested to hear what you find out. From your pictures it appears that your box has the black and white logo with the 5 different size people. As far as I know, this logo was never used (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)

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  Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111
 
(...) Ben, I've done some further research - I just placed some scans of my 1968 Samsonite catalog online here: (URL) don't think that 100 or 103 were available in the USA so I'm still guessing 107 was the motorized set. Also interesting that 115 (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)

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