Jouef

• new Jouef scale model announced in 1977

- electric locomotive BB 182 011-7 DB (ref. 8865),

• registered number: 182 011-3 DB
• green plastic body
• operating metallic pantographs
• silk screen printing registered number and DB logo on body sides
• same roof and roof equipment shared by Jouef E 110 DB and E 139 DB scale models
• black plastic frame
• embossed characters Jouef and Made in France under frame
• Jouef electric motor 12 volts 5 poles
• drive by endless screw and gear wheels
• 1 driving bogie
• 2 driving axles with rubber bands
• grey plastic bogies
• metallic wheels
• inverted white front lights
• international coupling without loop
• length: 187 mm
• weigth: 220 g

(1985)

• specific roof equipment to E.182 DB locomotives
• Sommerfeldt metallic and operative pantographs
• burnished metallic wheels
• black plastic bogies

Electric locomotives BB 182 DB

	8865	electric locomotive BB 182 011 DB, blue/grey(1).	announced in novelt.1977. really put on market ???
	8865	electric locomotive BB 182 011-7 DB, greyish green	cat. 1978-1979.
	8865	electric locomotive BB 182 011-7 DB, greyish green, Sommerfeldt pantographs.	novelt. 1985, cat. 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994.
	886500		cat. 1995-1996, 1996.

⁽¹⁾: In the Novelties 1977 folder, the electric locomotive 182 011-3 DB is shown with a blue and grey livery. Is it an color printing error? The three german locomotives had a different livery during production.

for similar alternatives, see also:

• electric locomotive BB 110 DB
• electric locomotive BB 139 DB

To launch the Jouef brand on the German market, the decision was done to produce electric locomotives E.110/139/140/182 DB scale models. The electric locomotives E.182 DB was also visible in France. The electric locomotive E.140 DB was discarded as it was already reproduced by many others models train makers.
If the bogies are identical for the 3 series E.110/139/182 DB locomotives, the locomotives E.110/139 DB shared the same body but the body of the E.182 DB has specific roof equipments. Taking account of the body of 3 prototype locomotives E.182 DB, the 182.011 DB had less modifications on the body.
If the German press raised this E.182 DB scale model not reproduced yet by others manufacturers, public criticism were put on the inaccurate roof equipment. Several years after, Jouef re-issued this model with modified specific roof equipment and fitted Sommerfeldt pantographs on it, and then, it became one of the first Jouef success in Germany. To compensate the mechanics weakness of the Jouef model, many German enthusiasts changed it with a Märklin or Roco mechanics.