Elektrische Bahnen : Jahrgang 1936 : Ergänzungsheft : Verlag für Sozialpolitik, Wirtschaft und Statistik Gmbh, Berlin, SW 68 : 1936 : cover with advert for Siemens-Schuckertwerke AG : Berlin
A special number of the Elektrische Bahn - Zentralblatt für Elektrischen zugbetrieb und alle arten von triebfahrzeugen mit elektrischem antrieb - with an annual look at the "electric railway system of the present". The journal, published by the Berlin based Verlag für Sozialpolitik, Wirtschaft und Statistik Gmbh., still had an internationally based consulting editorial board that included Sir Philip Dawson in London. As well as articles on electric railways and tramways, including a series on Berlin's BVG, there are numerous adverts for companies and products associated witht he electrification of the railway.
The front cover has some marvellously electric "lightning" lettering as well as an advert for the major German electrical and engineering company of Siemens - Schuckertwerke AG based at Siemensstadt in Berlin. Siemens-Schukert had been formed in 1903 when the long established company of Siemens-Halske AG acquired Schuckertwerke. Both were subsequently based at the Berlin 'works suburb' of Siemensstadt. The advert shows one of the Bo-BO electric locomotives built for the Deutschen Reichsbahn as well as one of the streamlined diesel-electric railcars.
Elektrische Bahnen : Jahrgang 1936 : Ergänzungsheft : Verlag für Sozialpolitik, Wirtschaft und Statistik Gmbh, Berlin, SW 68 : 1936 : cover with advert for Siemens-Schuckertwerke AG : Berlin
A special number of the Elektrische Bahn - Zentralblatt für Elektrischen zugbetrieb und alle arten von triebfahrzeugen mit elektrischem antrieb - with an annual look at the "electric railway system of the present". The journal, published by the Berlin based Verlag für Sozialpolitik, Wirtschaft und Statistik Gmbh., still had an internationally based consulting editorial board that included Sir Philip Dawson in London. As well as articles on electric railways and tramways, including a series on Berlin's BVG, there are numerous adverts for companies and products associated witht he electrification of the railway.
The front cover has some marvellously electric "lightning" lettering as well as an advert for the major German electrical and engineering company of Siemens - Schuckertwerke AG based at Siemensstadt in Berlin. Siemens-Schukert had been formed in 1903 when the long established company of Siemens-Halske AG acquired Schuckertwerke. Both were subsequently based at the Berlin 'works suburb' of Siemensstadt. The advert shows one of the Bo-BO electric locomotives built for the Deutschen Reichsbahn as well as one of the streamlined diesel-electric railcars.