Why is there a motorbike carburettor next to a bath oven for a doll's house? Because this also illustrates the history of the Bing company.

On your way to the toilet, you may also have noticed washing lavoirs and hot water boilers from the Bing company. Even in the pre-war years, Ignaz Bing had added bath ovens and bathing articles to the range. These very successful products had been sold by Bing worldwide for a long time and in many models.

After insolvency, Fritz Hintermayr acquired the name and the gas boiler production from the bankruptcy estate of the once world's largest toy factory Gebrüder Bing AG in 1932.

From 1933, the new Bing company produced carburettors for Triumph and Zündapp, and from 1944 also for BMW. Carburettors for stationary engines, chainsaws and boat engines were also produced.

Today the company, now called Bing Powersystems GmbH, supplies Porsche and BMW with nozzles for piston cooling. Since 1984, the company has also manufactured butterfly valves for fuel injection systems. The company is still based in Nuremberg, employs around 210 people and produces between 6,000 and 8,000 Bing carburettors and Bing throttle bodies every day.

And what happened to the countless employees after the original Bing company went bankrupt? Just like many machines and dies, they ended up with other Nuremberg tin toy manufacturers.

The complete history of the Bing brothers as well as many high-quality photos of our exhibits can be found in our exhibition catalogue "SPIELZEUGKULTUR Museums-Edition: 150 Jahre Gebrüder Bing" for 9 Euro 80 at the museum box office.