Awesome, what a small world!!!Horst wrote:Yep, that's where I live. I know a few 151s in the area but not a lot. Parts supply has not been an issue so far, but I also sourced from the US.rstel01 wrote:Hi, Are you actually in Munchen? Is there a big amount of 151's and parts still there?Horst wrote:time to change the supplier, I agree with Rick, this is the wrong part
I've worked for Knorr-Bremse in the US for almost 20 years now and am frequently over
Part of the old Knorr-Bremse building has been sold to BMW, they now host their classical BMW department there. As a matter of fact, I will be going there tomorrow with my 151, they have a classical car meet every 2nd week or so.
BTW, the ironic thing is those buildings along Moosacher Strasse were actually the orignal BMW buildings anyway! Knorr bought BMW in the 1920's but, due to the treaty of Versailles they were not able to produce what was BMW's core product in any signficant numbers (radial aircraft engines, which is what BMW's logo actually is). So it was sold back to family shortly thereafter and the facility became Suddeutsche Bremsen which was Knorr's Bavarian arm. Bavaria in the 1920's had very strict "Buy-Bavaria" laws for Rail Vehicles and we needed a "Bavarian" local facility, as we were historically based in Berlin. So in 1945 as Berlin fell, most of KB's facilities fell in the Soviet zone. A handful of Engineers and staff grabbed what they could, escaping the Soviets and relocated to the Bavarian facilities on Moosacher Strasse and reformed. The Soviets stripped what they could and the plants in Berlin actually re-opened under the GDR producing the same equipment as they did at the end of the war until 1989! After reunification, KB recieved all the buildings back, they and our Hasse-Werde plants in Berlin which have been restored/modernized as KB-Berlin and are the worlds center for Disc and other components.