Vintage RIGIELECTRIC 900E Motorized Cable Car Ski Lift LEHMANN West Germany
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:659302 | Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany |
| MPN: 900E | Vintage (Y/N): Yes |
| Brand: LEHMANN | Material: Tin |
| Control: Analog | Year: 1960's |
Cable car set in excellent condition. Works. Plastic. See photos.Cable car has a few teeny tiny scratches. Batteries not included. Box info and instructions are in French, Spanish, German and English. Made in West Germany.The E in 900E is for "electric" - meaning that the "power-station" (which turns the cable) is battery-powered and not hand cranked.
Info. from the instruction booklet:"The first cableways were utilized during ancient civilization...s in India and Japan for transporting loads over canyons and rivers. ...In Europe, the famous Swiss mountain called the RIGI, with its marvelous views, was the first to be rendered easily and rapidly accessible for tourists, by means of the first mountain railway."
Info from the box:"The RIGI cable railways are accurate copies of this means of transport, known and loved in all mountain districts. The RIGI cable railways can carry figures and loads from the valley station up to the mountain station and at the same time take enormous gradients.
RIGIELECTRIC cable railway can be erected indoors or in the open. Imaginative children will soon recognize the thousand and one possibilities of assembly and play. The mountain station, for example, may be hung on to door knobs, window catches, wall hooks and so on, while for the valley station can be found a place on the floor, the table, a chair, the windowsill or the like."
Info. from the instruction booklet:"The first cableways were utilized during ancient civilization...s in India and Japan for transporting loads over canyons and rivers. ...In Europe, the famous Swiss mountain called the RIGI, with its marvelous views, was the first to be rendered easily and rapidly accessible for tourists, by means of the first mountain railway."
Info from the box:"The RIGI cable railways are accurate copies of this means of transport, known and loved in all mountain districts. The RIGI cable railways can carry figures and loads from the valley station up to the mountain station and at the same time take enormous gradients.
RIGIELECTRIC cable railway can be erected indoors or in the open. Imaginative children will soon recognize the thousand and one possibilities of assembly and play. The mountain station, for example, may be hung on to door knobs, window catches, wall hooks and so on, while for the valley station can be found a place on the floor, the table, a chair, the windowsill or the like."
