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Runs well. Not something you'd want to pick up once plugged in. The fingers will find the bare wires.

Back in the day they also sold mains current toy trains.

Imagine giving your kids a train set with live tracks at 115 or 220 volts!

I am a little confused
Is it a Doll or Bing ? As you keep referring to both
And that heater looks nothing like my Electric Doll
 My heater is a belly blanket ? And under it is a steel plate to stop little fingers .

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And also from
“ Toy Steam News “ issue 5


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Cheers
Dennis

 
First off......Merry Christmas to all, and a happy New Year!

 Dennis....thanks for the comments, info, and especially pix.
Mine is an exact match - except for the heater which is very
different (the power leads are the same).  Maybe mine is a
replacement homemade heater.  I don't know, but it is very
powerful/fast.  You can hear the early steaming sounds within
a minute or so.  Pretty strange, but I've read the Germans mixed
things up a bit w/models at times.  Interestingly, I have a
KJ Miller engine with a cracked boiler that leaks at the base
where the power leads go in and have never been shocked, even
to a low trace voltage degree.  Then again, I probably had
sneakers on and didn't go out of my way to give it a chance
to zap me.  Been there, done that.

 Now I know what the steam dome looks like.  Hmmmm, I need to
work on finding one.

  Also, the reason I referred to it as a Bing clone of a Weeden
is because I think (oops) that was the way it was described.  I
was also under the impression Dolls were made at the Bingwerks.

  Finally, could you shoot me a photo of the cover of your
reference book?  Great photos!

Wayne

Hello Dennis,
Doll and Bing were separate companies. Doll was founded in 1898 and, since the owners were Jews, was forcibly sold to Gebrüder Fleischmann in 1938. When Bing was founded, probably in the 1890s, I do not know. The company did not survive the Great Depression of the early 1930s.

I am a little confused
Is it a Doll or Bing ? As you keep referring to both

Cheers
Dennis

Allow me to try and explain (it is not simple :-0
It appears that the Doll & Co line of toys (and others) were put to market in USA, (through Sears I think), by the 'Bing Wolf Corp' establishment.

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Here are three of the Doll type Bing things marketed by the Bing Wolf Corp.
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And a Doll Lokomobile by the same arrangement.
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