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Dittmar
Ditmar was a model railway brand used by Austria Email in postwar Austria. From 1948 to 1955, the company produced 0-gauge model railways in Vienna under the Ditmar name. The range included tinplate rolling stock, such as a two-axle freight wagon. The brand name derived from a Vienna metalwares firm founded by Karl Rudolf Ditmar in 1840, which Austria Email later took over.
- Founded
- 1952
- Final year
- 1955
- Locations
- Vienna, Austria · 1948
- Founders
- Heinrich Dittmar
The story of Dittmar
Karl Rudolf Ditmar founded a metalwares firm in 1840. The Ditmar name later became a brand of Austria Email, which took over the earlier firm during the Second World War. From 1948 to 1955, Austria Email produced 0-gauge model railways in Vienna under the Ditmar name. The range included tinplate rolling stock, including two-axle freight wagons. This railway line was a postwar use of a name originating in Vienna's metalwares industry.