Book PMP : The history of the PMP brand Book

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The book about the history of the PMP brand, as seen through the life of the son of the brand's founder.

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Writer's testimonial:

"To be a child and to have a dad who makes toys, what happiness will you say to me!

Well it's both certain but not always! It's true that I had a lot of material at my disposal but I couldn't have the whole catalogue at all times.

I don't know how I managed, when I was less than 10 years old at the time and these were just toys to me, to manage to keep so many models that have followed me throughout my life when I'm not really passionate about electric trains! Many of the locomotives that I still have today were built by me, using parts from the workshop. Some were put together in a hurry and therefore not always finished properly.

Early 1960s, it was the end of the PMP company. Of course, life went on for everyone, my father embarked on other adventures and I grew up too!

When my dad died in 1999, my sister and I had to clear out his house and workshop, from which I recovered a lot of PMP-related items: studies, plans, prototypes, parts, various archives...

That's why, after creating a CDrom in 2003 and a website in 2010, I decided today to bring together all my knowledge and all my childhood memories linked to this company, adding my research and my curiosity to make sure I didn't forget anything. Unfortunately, however, many points remain obscure or unclear."

Manufacturer : PMP

Market leader in France immediately after the 39-45 war, PMP was instrumental in bringing HO gauge back to the forefront of miniature electric trains.

Initially, the first production involved a Sprague-Thomson type metro train sold in boxes, virtually impossible to find today.

Very quickly PMP designed a slew of electric locomotive models in line with the actual output of the machines, such as the CC 7001 or the BB 9004, giving a real impression of modernity at the time. In fact, this is why there are virtually no steam engines apart from this Boër 030 much sought after by collectors.

The early alternating current power supply, which complicated the reversing of locomotives, was soon replaced by the creation of a much more efficient and responsive direct current motor for network construction.

The company's expansion was real in the 1950s. Competition from the Jouef brand with really cheap products, put an end to development in the early 1960s which forced the company into bankruptcy.

Son of Robert Leplat, founder of the company with Pierre-Marie Pillon, I have kept the memory of the company in its broad outline and I wanted through this site to share it with you.

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