#910 Best Box As Well As Efsi - Ford Taunus 17M As Well As Opel Rekord (2511/401 As Well As 405) (Around 1969 As Well As 1972)

There is something I haven´t shown yet inwards this blog: a existent Best-Box automobile model. So far I had exclusively models marked Efsi on their base, but thank y'all to Pablo from coleccionismo80-90.blogspot.com I got my offset Best-Box. It is non inwards its best shape, but even as well as then it is intereting to have got it inwards my collection, generally since I am capable of comparison it amongst the same toy automobile marked Efsi.

The model is the Ford Taunus 17M. The Best-Box reference pose out is 2511, piece Efsi´s is 401. Beside the obvious differences (color as well as markings inwards the base) both models are identical.

In previous entries virtually Efsi, I wrote the floor of the fellowship using several sources, but since the final entry, I received a comment from Ron Kolk, I responded, but he didn´t write back. I wonder if he is an ex-employee of the company, if he is the writter of the dutch wikipedia entry for me or if he only translated it for me, because he corrects the information displayed inwards entry #175. In whatever case, give thank y'all you as well as then much Ron!

Ron Kolk Nov 3, 2017 at 4:09 PM

In the belatedly 60's, the mines were shut inwards Limburg. DSM (The State Mine) tries to render the miners amongst novel jobs. Among other things, DAF comes to Born.

The solid reason mines had workshops where invalidly affected miners could deport out work, as well as then equally to have got a decent day-to-day spending. These "WIM Workshops" were transformed into Social Workplaces afterward the mining ceremony as well as housed yesteryear the Social Services Fund (FSI), which her social workplaces resumed at the Foundation for Companies of FSI, abbreviated equally SFB . One of those activities was the continuation of the model automobile production of Best-box. Initially even as well as then nether the hollo Best box, 1 goes to Efsi, a phonetic pronunciation of FSI inwards the seventies.

The fellowship was moved to De Beitel inwards Heerlen. Initially, it was produced amongst the available molds. Later the molds were made yesteryear a fellowship inwards Portugal. After making these dies ready-made, an alloy of zinc as well as aluminum (Zamak) was used to pour cars, lorries as well as buses. One had split molds for the plastic parts, where the wheels, interiors, windows, bumpers were cast. The plastic came from DSM inwards the shape of grains inwards diverse colors that Efsi mixed himself. The rider cars were phased out inwards the belatedly 1970s.

The maintenance of the dies as well as the machine common was carried out yesteryear EFSI engineers.

At the halt of her life, Efsi was renamed inwards Holland-Oto. In 1986, afterward the closure of the FSI, the Holland-Oto molds were taken over yesteryear an entrepreneur from Weert. Efsi models tin post away live institute inwards Holland-Oto packaging. The quondam Efsi manufacturing flora is even as well as then located on the Sourethweg inwards Heerlen, at the Beitel industrial site, contrary the quondam midwifery schoolhouse (now called Imstenrade). The edifice is owned yesteryear the Employment Office Oostelijk Zuid-Limburg (WOZL).

Ron gives about interesting fundamental that may explicate why are at that topographic point inwards proportion many to a greater extent than truck as well as van models than automobile modesl yesteryear Efsi. The rider cars were phased out inwards the belatedly 70s, as well as no novel casts were produced. Trucks as well as vans commonly accept longer to live replaced inwards the marketplace for novel models... Also interesting that advert to a portuguese company... which fellowship is it? There are non many die-cast manufacturers inwards Portugal.