Carl Bochmann (Cabo)

The firm of Cabo was founded in 1882 by Carl Bochmann in Dresden and produced a large number of tinplate toys (tram cars, military toys, tinplate cars, doll’s house equipment and even a children’s pedal car) and, from 1932 on, gauge 0 freight cars (and one passenger car) and stations and other lineside buildings. A 1937 price list lists no less than 44 items of freight stock, 3 coaches, a locomotive with tender, a railcar with trailer and a streamlined train as well as quite a number of station buildings and lineside accessories. All rolling stock and most of the accessories were 0 gauge, though some accessories were also produced for gauge 1. Carl Bochmann died in 1912 and the company was run by his widow Selma Bochmann until 1920. From 1921 until the end of the Second World War the owner of the factory was their son Willy Bochmann, who died in a Russian concentration camp in 1950. The factory escaped the heavy bombing of Dresden at the end of the war and after the war, when Dresden was in the Soviet-occupied zone, still some accessories were made. No longer under the name Cabo, as the firm was expropriated and integrated into the Dresdener Blech- und Spielwarenfabrik VVB (Dresden Tinware and Toy Factory). Until 1956 still some 0 and H0 gauge accessories like a station, railway barrier and a signal cabin were produced, but these are unmarked. In 1956 the production of Lineol figures was transferred to this location.