Liliput L265809 N spacious goods wagon, Hbks, DB, "Lithosan", EP.IV.

Spacious goods wagon, model Hbbks/Hbks
From the middle of the 1960s to the end of the 1970s, TALBOT produced a large-scale goods car at its wagon factory in Aachen, which was specially designed to transport light but bulky objects such as insulation materials, mattresses, glass parts or car tires. That's why wagons in train jargon are also known as "Foam wagon" or "Wagon". A few hundred cars were produced, some also for European countries.

A number of companies that had to transport such goods bought these cars from TALBOT and then set them up as a private car at the DB. Furthermore, wagon rental companies such as Sofeta or EVA bought larger quantities of these special cars and then rented them for different lengths to companies that they did not want or could not buy themselves. These were then only temporary or not printed with advertising labels – depending on the useful life and type of usage.

There were the wagons in three different lengths (LoB 16.74 m, 15.88 m or 14.99 m), WAS made the production possible according to the customer's wishes – a kind of "modular system" of the cleverly designed wagon body made this possible. The base of the underframe remained almost the same and the axle distance was always the same. The door section was also the same for all cars. This could be opened very wide by a horizontal flap that can be swiveled downward and two large revolving doors above it. Only the wide end plate on the floor of the wagon under the doors was welded in different inclinations depending on the wagon – everything was possible from straight to completely diagonally. The two draft angles of the lower flap also had different sizes and thicknesses, and the round door stoppers were once attached to the doors and sometimes to the sickles.

The special feature of these wagons was that they used almost all the light compartment profile of the railway. This means that with their wide down side walls, the floors further down in the middle of the car and the trapezoidal, high roof in the network of trains, they seemed much larger and "heavier" than normal goods wagons and therefore immediately appeared visually.

However, there were also whole trains with only such cars – the most well-known of which is probably the train with "G+H Isover"-labeling, because the Grünzweiz- und Hartmann GmbH had over 100 wagons of this type in stock, which initially carried the "SILLAN" and later the "Isover"-advertising. They even drove far into epoch V – at the end with the current logo. With the advertising for example of Metzeler, Rockwool, Dunlop/Dunlop, Greiner, felt cotton and Europlastic, several of these cars were stopped at the same time by the DB, while many other advertising labels remained solo.

Liliput presents the models of these large goods wagons absolutely true to the original in all three lengths of HER, so that each variant always corresponds to the concrete example.

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