Bev-Bel was simply a warehouse and distributor, run by Beverly Belkin. They made nothing -- but money. They occupied a former garage facility on Union Avenue in Cresskill, NJ, about a block and a half from where I lived for 27 years. They had no street presence or identity, but worked by mail only. They (she?) were pioneers and activators in the field of custom decoration of standard products; they not only carved a niche, they created an industry within an industry by selling the manufacturers on limited-run paint and lettering schemes on a semi-guaranteed basis. Randy Brown - -------------------------------------------------------------- QC is out of business as such, the kit line was sold to Gloor Craft, as I wrote just a second ago. But QC was owned by ?Bob? Weaver, who also owns Scalecoat Paint, and also owns Weaver, which makes O scale plastic kits. Earlier tonight, someone wrote something about being surprised that Bev-Bel (also now defunct) having wood kits (but I may have read that on a web page in a blog someplace after Googling "Quality Craft Gloor Craft"). Those kits were made to order for Bev-Bel by QC and/or GC. SGL The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------ End of EL Mail List Digest V3 #2644 ***********************************
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