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Speed,Combat,Scale,Racing => Scale Models => Topic started by: L0U CRANE on October 19, 2006, 12:46:28 PM

Title: SKF?
Post by: L0U CRANE on October 19, 2006, 12:46:28 PM

Just an odd thought that crossed my mind...

Scale modelers are usually pretty interested in the history and details of -particularly their own- scale models, so...

I wonder if any of the B-17s  that plastered Schweinfurt a couple of times in the 1940's had SKF bearings in engines or other systems?

SKF is the abbreviation for Schweinfurter Kugellager Fabrik - which simply means the Schweinfurt Ballbearing Factory...

Title: Re: SKF?
Post by: Leroy Heikes on October 20, 2006, 04:59:29 AM

Lou;
    I could not answere about the SKF bearrings, but when I was a teenager mowing runways at the local airport, I knew a older gentleman. He had served in the navy in WWII and his ship was hit by a kamikaze plane and when they were cleaning up the mess he found a cylinder head from that plane and it had a Champion Spark plug in it. He still had it in the 1970s.

Leroy

Title: Re: SKF?
Post by: L0U CRANE on October 21, 2006, 10:53:11 AM

Thanks for that...

Yeah, despite the mess of diplomacy and its failures in the 1930's, there was a lot of trade among nations which soon were at war.

Stalin delivered materials to NAZI Germany right up to the day of Barbarossa (Hitler's attack into Russia.)

"Oh, by the way Josef, our Peace Pact no longer applies... yrs truly, Adolph."

I believe the neutral Swiss delivered Oerlikon cannon to both sides for a while, early in the fighting in Europe, too.

Such details are all part of what makes Scale modeling attractive, right?