Loooooong time between drinks at Casa Fatmanos , but finally have a few more goodies coming ...
( Been a bit of a penny pinching few months as I decided to buy a new car for the first time in my life LOL... Currently in Japan and waiting to board a boat ! )
I have filled one of the few remaining gaps in my "Inertia Motor " collection .. with a Wilhelm Kraus Centrimotor coming down south from shivering Europe to a boiling hot Aussie ( 42 degrees C here today)
And closer to the weird and wonderful train topic ...
Two carriages from a little known German company from after the war ... Ottenjann ... or OJA ...Now this is a tricky one as I have pretty much been able to find out bugga all except for an actual company name "Hanseatisch Oldenburgische Blechspielwarenfabrik August Ottenjann " and even this name doesn't translate too well LOL!
Best I can do is The Tin Toy manufacturing company of August Ottenjann in the Oldenburg area with Hanseatic League connections ( medieval trade guild ) @Arne .. HEEEEEELLLPPPP lol!
I can Literally find NADA online except for 2 references one in a paywalled German magazine/newpaper article
There is ONE set of photo's with a gorgeous streamliner and freight wagons ... no versions of the passenger types I have gotten ?
Another where it is mentioned in a Forum index which frustratingly only adds ...
"Nur ca. zwei Jahre, zwischen 1949 und 1951 fertigte August O. in Oldenburg/D unter den Marken oja bzw. OAO
eine elektrische Eisenbahn in > Spurweite 0."
"Only about two years, between 1949 and 1951, August O. manufactured in Oldenburg/D under the brands oja and OAO an electric train in > 0 gauge."
I think I have a new Holy Grail in finding a loco and tender ... ( I expect to die before finding one , let alone one for sale lololol.. but hey , you gotta have aims in life! "
Anyway what I have coming !...
However there is a very recent example of one of these carriages on the cover of a German Collectors magazine .... @Arne if you have this magazine I will serve you loyally forever as my master if you can give me a translation of the article LOL !!!
