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Twin axle battery trucks |
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| 1956 until 1962 ??? | |
| Tender 1502 | |
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supplied to the tender locomotives 1500, 1501 and 1510. The cables - also for the 1504, 1520 and 1521 - were either yellow, blue, green, red or white. The external cable length is 45 mm without or 60 mm with a plug. |
as described before, now having a blue chassis - a definite allocation of any number is impossible - since only b/w pictures were available. Possibly it is the 1022, which has never appeared so far - or is it simply the tender for the 1500 / 1501 with blueengine cover? The inscription also says 1502 |
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battery compartments side walls WITHOUT ... |
...and WITH holes |
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the tender from the inside - on the right model with the green cables, these are riveted. Later, the other cable colors are "clamped" under the tab |
With differently positioned cable ducts. In the left box, the distance between the top edge of the box and the bottom edge of the hole is 10 mm - on the right the distance is 14 mm. |
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Without hole in the side wall, deeper 14mm cable feedthrough: green cable jammed under the rivet. |
WITH hole in the side wall: in the foreground the 14 mm variant, behind the 10 mm variant - cables squashed |
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the early version with green cables |
at least one of my early versions shows steel or iron plugs |
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The 14 mm version with the green cables is the first version. Other cable colors followed later. The 1502 lid does NOT fit on the box with 10 mm hole spacing without disconnecting the cables - or standing upright. This box was probably intended for the 1520 / 1521 battery cars - and should therefore always have the holes in the side walls. Exceptions will possibly refute this observation :-( |
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| Cover 1502 fits 14 mm battery compartment | Cover 1502 NOT suitable for 10 mm battery compartment |
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In order to achieve slower - closer to original - speed some operators use battery dummies so that the engine runs at 3 Volt only. |
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internal of the truck - in this case replaced by a modern battery compartment carrying 3 AAA sized batteries - because defect / leaking batteries have often destroyed the metal contacts. In fact this is my real favorit operating the trains - using 3 rechargeable accus - thus operating the trains with 3,6 Volt, which is a good "intermediate" between often to fast 4.5V and sometimes too weak 3V. |
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| And then we have the 1958 price list - offering a Nr. 1503 Battery tender, green, 85 mm for 2.- DEM. Details are still missing. | |
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Tender 1015 |
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delivered together with the 1013 E, lid orange, chassis red |
1015, now with a blue chassis |
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the 1015 lid in detail |
In 2013 an original box incl. the original cable came up. Cables were produced at the Leonische Drahtwerke AG in Nuremberg - today a global corporation. |
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battery tenders were most probably available until 1962 |
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generated: JAN-09-2001 |
last update: Winter 2024 |
