HORNREICH COLLECTION of So Called Dollars from Pacific Coast Expositions and Events
SWF, HK-UNL ALWEG Monorail Yellow Metal Pin 1962

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Alweg 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair Metal Pin, Not available to the General Public, Scarce. Part of the Spencer Collection's Seattle Worlds Fair Medal Set. Alweg was founded by Swedish industrial magnate Dr. Axel Lennart Wenner-Gren in January 1953 as Alweg-Forschung, GmbH (Alweg Research Corporation), based in Fühlingen, a suburb of Cologne, Germany. The company was an outgrowth of the Verkehrsbahn-Studiengesellschaft (Transit Railway Study Group), which had already presented its first monorail designs and prototypes in the previous year. The Alweg name is an acronym of Dr. Wenner-Gren's name (Axel Lennart WEnner-Gren). Alweg is best remembered for developing the original Disneyland Monorail System, which opened in 1959, and the Seattle Center Monorail, which opened in time for the 1962 Century 21 Exposition.[citation needed] Both systems remain operational, with the Seattle Center Monorail still using the original Alweg trains which have traveled over one million miles.