The label HMV HAMBURGERMODELBAUBOGEN VERLAG was founded in 1995 as a subsidiary of SCHEUER & STRÜVER ( sorry only in German ) of Hamburg and is producing since then high quality cardbord models, most ships. The implementation of HMV was back then born out of a missing of high quality cardbord models. by Earl of Cruise HMV models of HAMBURG, 1969 and HANSEATIC 1, ex EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND, ex EMPRESS OF JAPAN displayed at the both during the INTERMODELBAU - own photo © Earl of Cruise Benjamin Fentens with Carsten Horn, model constructor of WAPPEN VON HAMBURG 3 und HAMBURG, 1969 - courtsey HMV The publishers of HMV wanted to create from their very heat, and from the first beginning constructive qualified and high grad printed cardbord models. Their concept created a story of success. The model builders / customers are of all age groups, from the young to the old. HMV model of WAPPEN VON HAMBURG 3 - own photo © Earl of Cruise Till 2009 HMV was part of SC...
When BREMEN , the first of the two, the world shocking last German Greyhounds , and ` Ships of State ´, was introduced in 1929 - BREMEN had provoking radical new streamlined lines and broke with any traditions. When asking todays public: what is a typical liner, BREMEN is named among the first five. Only ten years after the Versailles Peace Treaty , with 20,000,000,000,000.00 Goldmark anual reparations for the next 58 years, an occupation of the Ruhrgebiet , a raging inflation till 1923 (then introduction of the Rentenmark ), the resurging Germany and NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD back at the top again. And BREMEN and EUROPA had been financed private! Bank loans from German and US American banks, plus the liberation of frozen LLOYD capital from pre WWI. by Earl of Cruise BREMEN, in her first years with the squat funnels - courtesy coloured by Daryl LeBlanc The difference to EUROPA are the paired windows in the front of the promenade deck and the big ventilators, the last remains o...