A volume from the «Modellauto-Katalog» series of the Alba publishing house in Düsseldorf, which worked through the great makes one after another in the eighties and nineties. The back cover of this volume is a publisher's advertisement and lists the companion volumes: Corgi Toys and 1:43 by Peter R. Cordes, Matchbox Series 1–75 and Matchbox Superfast by Bernd Flösser, and the Models of Yesteryear by Flösser and Udo Lander. The subtitle identifies this copy as the first edition of 1992. It has 195 pages; in 1996 a revised second edition of 256 pages followed, whose subtitle no longer names the 1:43 scale. Martoys was the name under which the Besana brothers began in 1974 – then only in 1:24 scale; only two years later it became Bburago, with the double B for Besana and for Burago di Molgora. On the same make, Paolo Rampini's «Automodelli Bburago 1:43 Made in Italy» is also in this directory.

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