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[gricerboy]

Hmm, you can blame the Peter Griffin troll for this shameless bump

[darmstadt]

One day, my East German aunt (ever a penny pincher) discovered a European brand called Lima (don't recall where they were from) who produced cut priced HO scale model railways based on the rail networks of various European countries. Now, HO scale rolling stock will run on OO scale track but the actual scaling of the models is different. Plus the fact that she would always buy me Yugoslavian locos and an incongruity began to develop which got bigger as each Christmas passed.

I had a Lima set when I was a young lad in South Africa and always thought they were Italian. If I recall it also had overhead power cables as well...

[gricerboy]

I had a Lima set when I was a young lad in South Africa and always thought they were Italian. If I recall it also had overhead power cables as well...

Did it have fully functional pantograph?

[darmstadt]

Did it have fully functional pantograph?

As far as I recall yes, although they weren't automatic meaning you had to raise and lower them by hand. Also had working signals and I see they were taken over by Hornby eventually (and I was correct in assuming they were Italian). I suspect I had one of these sets: Locomotives SAR

Lima (models) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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[gricerboy]

and I was correct in assuming they were Italian

Well I'll be blowed.

All the Lima stuff I had gifted to me had a very Germanic flavour.

Even the model buildings looked like Swiss chalets with the result that the entrance to Lickey Bank ended up looking like the Grossglockner.