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Wikipedia Revell en Lewis H. Glaser, a California entrepreneur, founded a plastics molding firm called Precision Specialties in Hollywood during 1943.[a] The company made a variety of products contracted for different companies.[1] One of the first toy related products were HO scale (1:87) train sets, including locomotives, and a variety of cars along with buildings. The building line was extensive, including a farm group, a suburban passenger station, and a variety of utility structures. Many of these originals were later reproduced in other scales.
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About 1950, Revell reproduced Maxwell and Ford Model T assembled toys originally designed by the Gowland Brothers in
England, a company producing toys since 1932.[3] According to noted collector Cecil Gibson,[4] these did not sell so well in England, but Revell had much better luck with the series in the U.S. The Revell box said, "By John Gowland—creator of Champ and Chu Chu".[5]

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Wikipedia Revell de Lewis H. Glaser, geboren 1917 in New York, arbeitete seit 1934 in einem Radio-Reparaturladen in Los Angeles im US-Bundesstaat Kalifornien und übernahm das Geschäft 1938 für 100 $ vom Vorbesitzer. 1941 kaufte Glaser Werkzeuge zur Kunststoffverarbeitung und begann unter dem Namen „Precision Specialities“ verschiedenste Kunststoffprodukte anzubieten. 1942 gründete Glaser gemeinsam mit Jacque Fresco die Revell Plastics Company.[2][3] 1943 brachte er ein Kosmetikprodukt namens „Lady's Cosmetic Compact“ auf den Markt und übernahm dann den von einem Angestellten in einem Namenswettbewerb vorgeschlagenen Namen „Revell“ hierfür. ... Nach dem Krieg wurden unter diesem Namen insbesondere Plastikfiguren und Plastikmodelle von Autos gefertigt. Das Unternehmen war inzwischen ins Umland von Los Angeles, nach Venice, umgezogen.

Seit 1947 fertigte Revell Automodelle aus Kunststoff, die zwar aus einer Reihe separat gegossener Teile bestanden, aber ab Werk montiert wurden und als Fertigmodelle den Kunden erreichten.[5] 1951 wurde Glaser auf die Idee gebracht, die vorhandenen Automodelle auch in noch nicht zusammengebautem Zustand, also als Bausatz, anzubieten. Glaser war skeptisch und fragte sich, warum jemand etwas kaufen wolle, das nicht zusammengebaut war.[6] Als jedoch die Kaufhauskette Woolworth's anbot, die Bausätze ins Sortiment zu nehmen, stimmte Glaser zu und brachte die „REVELL Highway Pioneers“ im August 1951 erfolgreich auf den Markt.
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Genau aus dieser Leidenschaft heraus entstand im Jahr 1943 durch den Amerikaner Lewis H. Glaser ein heute sehr bekannter Modellbau-Hersteller.

Zunächst als Kosmetikhersteller unter dem Namen “Lady’s Cosmetic Compact” bekannt, begann das Unternehmen kurze Zeit später unter dem Namen Revell die Produktion von Plastikpodukten. Revell, dessen Name sich aus dem Französischen “reveil – Erwachen” ableitet, produzierte zunächst Kunststoff-Spielzeug, Puppenstuben-Zubehör und Spielzeug-Waschmaschinen, bis Lewis H. Glaser 1947 die Idee hat, maßstabsgetreue Autos aus verschiedenen Kunststoffteilen herzustellen.

Revell History lesson I ran across this information on an ebay listing the other day. I knew some of it, but not in this detail. Thought you guys might be interested.

Revell was founded in 1943 (some dates say 1945), as a plastics molding firm called Precision Specialties in Venice, California, in the United States by Lewis H. Glaser (1917–1972) and Jacque Fresco (1916 - )(see Miller no date).
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One of the first toy related products were HO Scale (1:87) train sets including locomotives, and a variety of cars along with buildings.
Revell website --> The start of a tradition



- A series of pull toy cars followed in 1946, some with detachable cables so the cars could be displayed.

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Brand  page: Washing machine [first toy] caption says 1945.

BTW: The pull toys Buckaroo Bill, Chu Chu train and Quacky Wacky pictured are not  toy cars as stated in the caption.
     
http://www.magazine-advertisements.com/revell-kits.html Revell was founded in 1943 as a plastics molding firm called Precision Specialities in Venice, California, by Lewis H. Glaser a California entrepreneur. The company made a variety of products contracted for different companies. One of the first toy related products were HO scale (1:87) train sets, including locomotives, and a variety of cars along with buildings.
   
Modelling Madness Revell was founded in 1943 as a plastics molding firm called Precision Specialities in Venice, California, by Lewis H. Glaser a California entrepreneur. The company made a variety of products contracted for different companies. One of the first toy related products were HO scale (1:87) train sets, including locomotives, and a variety of cars along with buildings.
     
http://www.fins-and-chrome-collection.de/collection7.html   Bereits ein Jahr später, 1953, stießen Vater und Sohn Gowland auf der Suche nach einem geeigneten Partner für die Entwicklung und den Vertrieb ihrer Highway Pioneers auf Lew Glaser, der mit seiner Frau Royel die Firma Revell gegründet hatte und sich in dem boomenden Geschäft bestens auskannte.
     
Revell Written by Chuck Miller, revell-2.pdf

from http://www.toycollectormagazine.com

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  What we know today as Revell began in 1945, when a company called Precision Specialties, founded by Lou Glasser, manufactured injection-model plastic kits for various companies. One of those companies, Gowland & Gowland, used Glasser’s models to create a pull-toy replica of the “Maxwell” vintage jalopy popularized on Jack Benny’s radio and television shows. The Maxwell toy was a major hit, encouraging Gowland & Gowland to create a series of miniature Highway Pioneers, 69-cent model kits of vintage automobiles like the 1900 Packard, the 1911 Rolls-Royce, and the 1914 Stutz Bearcat. The kits drove off F.W. Woolworth store shelves. By then, Glasser concentrated exclusively on the plastic model kit toy market. Adapting the French word for “new beginning,” reveille, Glasser named his plastic modeling company Revell.
     
http://www.lionbracelett.com/tag/model-cars-revell/

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  At the end of the Second World War, Glaser bought a plastics company and then launched Precision Specialities, a company that was to make plastic novelties. In 1946, Glaser started producing toys, firstly marketing a Minnie Mouse Washing Machine that was to prove a huge success and later on he followed this with a plastic Maxwell Automobile pull along toy. After attending a toy fair in 1950, Glaser found himself inundated with new orders. Someone suggested he make a model kit version to help the company keep up with orders as, even if the company produced ten thousand of the Maxwell models per day, they would still be short. However, Glaser ignored this suggestion.
     

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