So, being slightly involved in a few threads in re Factory Built Layouts for either Dealers' Window/Floor Displays, as well as those which were taken to the big shows for New Item Reveals, etc.

A thought occurred to me that I had not actually seen, although there may be a thread about this:

When Märklin built small-medium layouts for the dealers, did they have a special group whose sole responsibility was making sure each and every dealer layout met certain standards for continuity, and criteria to match what was offered in the dealer display catalogs? I believe that they coördinated with Faller or Vollmer or Kibri, and Noch and others on some products - structures, preformed bases perhaps, backgrounds, etc. - however, were the final assembled layouts given the same scrutiny that was prevalent at that time for the rest of Märklin products (1950s, 60s, maybe even 70s)?

I presume the layouts for the big shows had extra-special attention, but I was thinking of the realm of the smaller products. How much "freedom of expression" (per se) would the layout constructors have been given for the overall presentation on these smaller Schaufenster layouts?

Thanks, and I apologize if this has been discussed before.

Edited by user 30 November 2023 14:07:29(UTC)  | Reason: clarification

Marco,

Thank you! I rather thought we might have touched on this before, but had no idea where to look.

Awesome!

Jimmy

Quite a lot of "Schaufenster anlagen" (= factory layouts) on forum Historische Modellbahnen too, better known as the maetrix forum.

See here: http://www.maetrix.net

(Most factory layouts are in subforum "Märklin - the Sixties - die große Zeit der Märklin-Bahn". )

Marco

(BTW : Lima, Trix Express, Fleischmann etcetera also made nice factory layouts).