Bing Large and Small
Even though the Bing catalogs did give size dimensions it is easy to overlook the print and just look at the illustrations. If you do this it can come as something of a shock when you first see items in the flesh that heretofore you had only looked at in catalogs. Case in point the size difference between a Bing crane ca 1907-1911 (on the left) and one from ca 1926 (on the right).
My uncertainty with respect to dating the crane on the left is because I'm sure it was made after 1906 but I'm also sure it does not match the catalog illustration for 1912 and later and I don't have any catalog information between those two dates (the book Bing Modellbhanen by Jeanmarie does have some information between these two years but no illustrations of cranes) The 1912 and later have cranes illustrated with a raised square base on the car frame to support the crane cab.
