Hello all ..thank you for your kind words .. Boucher is just the old Voltamp line ...pretty much established by 1915 ... Boucher just pushed out the pilot wheels and added a pick up for standard gauge ..in hope to find a market for the dying 2" line . Voltamp motors with their double fields and cast frames for the engines were certainly a step up from the other boys ......however the sheet metal ...on a good day is delicate at best ....the body sheet metal is thin gauge and does not like rough handling ... handling the engines is a two handed thing picking up from the frame ...not the body .. bodies are lots of little pieces all soldered together .....so hand built ...
Voltamp / Boucher never had distribution anything like the big boys ..so much smaller production to a niche market. ...In the 20's folks would buy the Boucher engines to pull the other boys cars ... if you wanted a 6 wheel drive standard gauge engine Boucher was your only choice ... most the world was unaware of Boucher and Voltamp ... here is a link to see the double motor 2500 with standard late 2500 low cab body from at least 1922 ..most likely before ...but no proof yet .... still being sold with the old Voltamp style passenger cars in 1929 ..this was the premier Boucher set the Washington Express ... next year the Blue Comet made it's debut ... but standard gauge was about to fall from fashion ... by 1933 market had shifted to O gauge with more interest in realistic looking trains ...the scale world was posed to take over .
Cheers Carey
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