372 - Märklin locomotive set Z gauge 8887 "750 Jahre Berlin", Schwartzkopff, Borsig, AEG, original box

Märklin locomotive set Z gauge 8887 "750 Jahre Berlin", Schwartzkopff, Borsig, AEG, original box Märklin Z gauge, mini-club, locomotive set 8887 in original box with black plastic insert, together with accompanying booklet. Anniversary set "750 Jahre Berlin", box inscription "Tenderlokomotive BR 89 von Schwartzkopff", "Güterzuglokomotive BR 41 von Borsig", "Elektrolokomotive BR E 94 der AEG", "Modelle der großen Berliner Lokomotiv-Fabriken im einmaligen Fotografieranstrich" and "Original-Fabrikschilder als Metall-Repliken", red round seal "mini-club". Contents: three locomotives, 1) class 89 in light grey, 2) class 41 with tender in light grey, 3) class E 94 in grey with light grey roof, roof superstructures picked out in red and two pantographs; together with the three works plates with silver-coloured lettering: plate "BERLINER MASCHINENBAU-ACTIEN-GESELLSCHAFT" with "L. SCHWARTZKOPFF", portrait medallion and "1935" on grey ground, plate "BORSIG LOKOMOTIV-WERKE HENNIGSDORF-BERLIN" with "1939" and plate "AEG BERLIN" with "1941", each on dark ground. Played with. The absence of smaller, delicate add-on parts cannot be completely ruled out. Function not tested. For the 750th anniversary of the city of Berlin, Märklin issued this locomotive set for Z gauge in 1987, whose three models represent the great locomotive builders of the capital. Louis Schwartzkopff founded an iron foundry and engineering works in Berlin in 1852, which from 1870 traded as Berliner Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft vormals L. Schwartzkopff and put a second works in Wildau into operation in 1900. August Borsig had already founded his engineering works in 1837. AEG moved its locomotive factory to Hennigsdorf in 1913; after the merger with Borsig in 1931, steam locomotive construction also moved from Tegel to Hennigsdorf and continued until 1944 under the name Borsig Lokomotiv Werke GmbH as a subsidiary of the AEG group.