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A Solido Military
modelleket, méretüktől és kidolgozottságuktól függően három szériába sorolják a katalógusok:
military 1, military 2 és military 3. A közkedvelt modellek több verzióban, illetve eltérő festéssel
is megtalhatók ezekben a szériákban, mint például: Acmat, Berliet, Citroen, Dodge, Ford, GMC, Humvee,
Jeep, Mercedes, Peugeot, Simca, VAB...stb.
A lánctalpasok, féllánctalpasok, tankok a military 3 szériába vannak sorolva (itt is fellelhető több verziójuk):
AMX, Bergpanzer, Brummbar, Destroyer, Half Truck, Hanomag, Leopard, Ostvind, Panther, Renault, Sherman,
T34, Tiger...stb.
A lánctalpas járárművek, Solido® szabadalom szerinti, fém lánctalpakkal készülnek.
Az Army Museum,
2007-es katalógusban megjelenő, exclusiv széria különleges modellei: Citroen 15cv Gazogéne, Dukw 353,
GMC CCKW, Hanomag Sanitaire, Jeep Willys SAS & Sanitaire, Panther G, Renault 180, Sherman M4 Dozer.
A Forces of Valor
szériák a Solido® 2005-ös katalógusában jelentek meg először. Egy-egy
kivételtől eltekintve Második Világháborús, főleg Amerikai és Német járműveket mintáztak meg sorozataikban,
de helyet kapott köztük néhány Angol és Orosz páncélos modell is.
Ezek a szépen kidolgozott, különleges festésű modellek méreteikben is (1/16, 1/32, 1/72) újdonságnak
számítottak a hagyományos 1/48, 1/50, 1/55 léptékű Solido® termékek közt. Az 1/32 méretben gyártott
modelleket három szériába sorolták. Egy-egy szériában 8-10 modell kapott helyet ez 2006-ra, 10-16-ra
bővült.
A közel 40 modellt felsorakoztató 1/32 léptékű modellek képezik a Forces of Valor szériák
gerincét. Választékában megtalálhatók közkedvelt szállító járművek és tank modellek, többek között az
Amphibian, Hanomag, Jeep Willys, Kubelwagen, M16, Matilda, Panzer, Schwimmwagen, Sherman, T34, Tiger,
Zundapp...stb. típusok.
1/72-es modell széria is napvilágot látott a kategórián belül. Igaz csak egy szűkebb, alig több mint
10 darabot számláló választék erejéig. Az 1/72-es a modellek, katona figurákat és kiegészítőket is
tartalmaznak. A szép festésű, különleges modellek beilleszthetőek a kedvelt léptékű és bőséges 1/72-es
makett kínálatba, ezért jól használhatók diorama készítéshez is.
Végül egy igazi csemege zárja a sort: az 1/16 méretű King Tiger (Sd.Kfz.182.). A legendás hírű,
nehézharckocsiról készült, szépen megmunkált modell, kiegészítőket is tartalmaz és exkluzív, fa lőszeresláda
csomagolást kapott. (Az 1/16-os King Tiger-t csak Francia piacra szánták.)
SOLIDO MILITARY
40 ÉV TÖRTÉNETE
http://solijouet.free.fr/english/365z.htm
The year 1960 see the start of the military collection. The company of Solido toys is then installed
at Ivry-la-Bataille in Normandy (France), in old hydroelectric factory built on the Eure. Headquarter
is located in the Marechal Foch Street, in Versailles (78). The firm is directed by the three children
(Charlotte, Jean and Colette) of the founder Ferdinand de Vazeilles, pioneer in many fields (1889-1984).
Since 1932, Solido proposes "toys with transformations", kits manufactured in Mazac - a zinc alloy injected
under pressure. The vehicles are propelled by spring engines. They are not yet reproductions strictly speaking.
In 1953 Ferdinand de Vazeilles bequeathes the lead of the company Solijouets SA to his son Jean René.
In 1957, Jean chooses to sell his new ranges of miniatures, copies of existing machines, already assembled.
Solido innovates with suspensions on the cars at 1:43 scale. The public discovers its models in a illustrated
annual catalogue, like the packaging, by Jean Blanche's drawings.
In front of the success of the small-scale military models of the concurrent firm, Dinky Toys, it is decided to
launch a new series on this topic at 1:50 scale (the models will go in fact from 1:48 to 1:55).
Faithful to its policy, Solido engages in a field already strongly occupied by competition only with the insurance
to be creative. Armoured vehicle needs tracks. So engineering and design department thus develops a new manufactoring
process of articulated tracks in Mazac whose patent application is deposited the 20/12/1961 (n°1.316.631).
1961-1979
During this long period, the military models are rarely excluded from the production, recovered or included in
other collections. The innovations come to be added to the preceding references in series 200. The number of models
suggested on the catalogue thus increases each year. From two models in 1961, the production passes to twenty models
in 1967 to reach more than fifty references available in 1975. At such rhythm, Solido would have exceeded the
hundred parts at the beginning of the Nineties... We find however a certain standardization to simplify manufacture
and to reduce the costs (common boxes, same plastic accessories, etc.)
The year 1974 marks a virage in the history of Solido. Firstly, missing space in the old plant of Ivry-la-Bataille,
the company inaugurates in the vicinity immediate (the village of Oulins in the Eure & Loire) a new modern factory
reserved for manufacture at the beginning.
An ambitious project in the context of economic crisis. So, to be stronger, Solijouets enters in the group
"Le jouet français" (Jouef, Delacoste & Co, etc), to become the SA Heller-Solido after the successive departures of
all the family de Vazeilles of the direction at the end of the 70's. Headquarter is then transferred in the 10th
district of Paris. A page is turned. At the end of 1980, the company managed by Thomas Sebestyen goes into
"liquidation". The union "Le jouet français " is allowed for the benefit of the bankruptcy proceedings (May 8, 1981).
In july, Solido is bought for a moderate sum by Majorette and yielded to an "SA Solido " (February 10, 1982). The brand name is preserved. The production continues and remains distinctive but under other conditions. The military models are stopped.
Founded in 1961 by Emile Veron under the name "Rail Route Jouets", Majorette becomes the first French manufacturer
of miniature cars. General public remains its privileged target, so the prices must remain competitive and the models
are cheap with more plastic or less details. Installed at Caluire and Rillieux-la-Pape near Lyon, the firm is managed
by its president Emile Véron (56 years old, brother of the founder of Norev, other large Lyons firm of miniature cars)
helped by his wife Marie-Louise and their son Alexandre.
Restructured and managed by Majorette Distribution for marketing in France, Solido SA adopts new methods, with a
maximum profitability of the investments by reduction in the manufacturing cost. Manpower is reduced ; the number
of employees on the site of Oulins is limited to hundred only, but we see subcontract increases (the assembly is
done in the prisons, places of cheap labour). The distribution is done now by the network of the wholesalers, and
Solido profits from the logistics of Majorette (hypermarkets). At the end of the 80's, Solido is represented in
Italy, Germany, UK and even in the United States in Miami.
Founded by Emile Véron in 1984, Verem SA is a small subsidiary company (ten people) and whose seat is from now on
localised in Bueil (Eure) close to Oulins.
1993-2000
This new production is characterized initially by republications of Solido's models but the transfer at Verem is
the beginning of a revival. even if the military range does not find again the innovations of the initial period.
Many variants are based only on one new set of transfers or the application of an bad camouflage. There are thus
only few real innovations, and the old moulds show a visible wear. But the number of the models suggested under
various references, like under the brand name Solido, grows each year. The introduction in 1994 of the resin at
Verem (in subcontracting with Provence Moulage near Marseille) gives the possibility of unexpected evolutions.
This recovery by Triumph-Adler Toys & Leisure Business Group, presented like a holding of SME and based in Nüremburg
(Germany), appears advantageous for the health of the SN Solido. The leaders change once more. Indeed, we find
Cornelia Sailer as Chairman of the board and Richard Mamez as General manager, as well as an administrator
representing Tectro Spielwaren GmbH (Petra Wibbe).
The sales turnover of the SN Majorette is in rise since 1997, and announces a return to a positive result in 1998
(annual balance sheet: 60 million euros). A success partly due to the reduction of the cycle of production. With
the help from Ernst & Young Conseil, the planning system of the production was modernized (adoption of a management
in tended flows for reduction of stocks). A success also gotten by new products ; seven million is thus invested in
1998 in the site of Oulins, consolidated in the making of the products intended for the adult collectors. The
expected fusion with Verem is recorded the 12/30/96. Today, Solido and Majorette (more than 40% of the French market)
would seek to conquer, not without difficulties, the vast American market. It is true that more half of the sales
turnover of Majorette Toys comes from her exports. In 2000, Solido is established in China and buy some spanish
Mira's moulds, but it is always possible to dream that, for a long time ago, the trucks will take the road from the
site of Oulins charged with famous miniatures "made in France".
SOLIDO MILITARY KLUB
SOLIDO AUTOMODELL KLUB
Jean de Vazeilles
The track of Solido tank after moulding
Oulins today
Emile Véron
Richness of Solido : 2500 steel moulds
Inside a press for die-cast (the goose neck)
Verem's workshop in Buei
The completely automatic painting machine of Oulins