Mobaco Construction Sets

Mobaco was a construction system for making buildings. The frame sections were wood, the base was layered cardboard or hardboard and the panels were cardboard. It was made in Zeist, in The Netherlands from 1924 to the early 1961 by N.V. Plaatmetaalindustrie van Mouwerik en Bal. The company which was commonly known as 'Moubal', was also a manufacturer of sheet metal products.

In 1949, Hausemann & Hötte NV of Amsterdam who made Jumbo, toys and puzzles, took over sales and marketing. They redesigned the sets and manuals to make significantly simpler and smaller models. they also added a few new parts and turned it into more of a mass market product. However the original 'Moubal' Mobaco system also continued in production up to 1952/3. All production ended in 1961.

All the manuals and photos below have come from Caspar Mol's website about Mobaco to whom I am grateful for the permission for their use. There is a lot more information on the system on his website - https://www.mobaco.nl.

Manufacturer / Distributor

N.V. Plaatmetaalindustrie van Mouwerik en Bal, Zeist, The Netherlands.
Postwar sets also marketed by - Hausemann & Hötte NV of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Below there are manuals/leafets etc. which can be downloaded by clicking on the appropriate image.

Photo of a typical 'Moubal' Mobaco model.
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Scans of a 1924 'Moubal' Mobaco manual for set 1.
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Scans of a 1924 'Moubal' Mobaco manual for set 2.
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Scans of a 1925 'Moubal' Mobaco manual for set 0.
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Scans of a 1925 'Moubal' Mobaco manual for set 1 (same as the 1924 edition except with some text on the front cover and the rear cover in colour.
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Scans of a 1926 'Moubal' Mobaco manual for set 00.
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Scans of a 1928 'Moubal' Mobaco manual for set 0.
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Scans of a 1928 'Moubal' Mobaco manual for sets 1 and 2.
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Scans of a 1931 'Moubal' Mobaco manual for sets 00, 0 and 1 (with round windows).
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Scans of a 1931 'Moubal' Mobaco manual for sets 1 to 4.
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Scans of a 1932/3 'Moubal' Mobaco manual for sets 00, 0 and 1 (with square windows).
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Scans of a 1932 'Moubal' Mobaco manual for set 000.
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Scans of a 1936 'Moubal' Mobaco instruction leaflet for the Windmill sets 1 and 2.
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Scans of a 1942 'Moubal' Mobaco instruction manual for set 00. Note the old Dutch spelling.
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Scans of a 1942 'Moubal' Mobaco instruction manual for sets 0 and 1. Note the old Dutch spelling.
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Scans of a 1948 'Moubal' Mobaco instruction manual for set 00. Note the modern Dutch spelling.
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Scans of a 1948 'Moubal' Mobaco instruction manual for sets 0 and 1. Note the modern Dutch spelling.
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Photos showing the difference between 'Moubal' Mobaco and 'Jumbo' Mobaco.
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Scans of a 1949 'Jumbo' Mobaco instruction manual for the initial series set A.
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Scans of a 1949 'Jumbo' Mobaco instruction manual for the initial series set B.
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Scans of a 1949 'Jumbo' Mobaco instruction manual for the initial series set C.
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Scans of a 1950 'Jumbo' Mobaco instruction manual for the later series set A.
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Scans of a 1950 'Jumbo' Mobaco instruction manual for the later series set D.
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Scans of a 1951 'Jumbo' Mobaco instruction manual for the later series sets A to E in black and white.
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Scans of a 1950s 'Jumbo' Mobaco instruction manual for the later series sets A to E in colour with text in four languages.
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Scans of a 1950s 'Jumbo' Mobaco instruction manual for the later series sets A to E in colour with text in five languages.
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