BAYKO Sets #1 to #6 Instruction Manual
- 1935 to 1937?

This was the second style of Instruction Manual produced by Plimpton after the three versions of the original style, and follows shortly after the launch of their flagship BAYKO set - the “De-Luxe” set #6.

Unfortunately there is no printer's code so I can't be more precise with the date, but this is the earlier version of this style of manual and was in circulation from 1935 until 1937-ish.

There is, for the first time, a little corporate information, in the bottom line, on the back page : -

The Alwyn Studio Advertising Service were the publishers, i.e. they pulled the manual together for Plimpton.

The Northern Publishing Company Ltd. of Liverpool and London were the printers.

The pages below which are shown against a pale blue background, [below] like this, are the pages which were changed in the later version - most relate to slight changes in set contents.

This was the first BAYKO manual to mention the Ornamental Additions Sets, unfortunately, on page 69, they mistakenly referred to “Red and Oak Arches” instead of “Green and Oak Arches”.

These two pages, #70 and #71 show particularly famous BAYKO models, the BAYKO Village and the Skyscraper, they were both shown at the British Industries Fair

If you would like more in formation on the British Industries Fair…

It comprises 72 black and white pages, most including photos, printed on white, low gloss paper, with a full colour front cover printed on thicker, white paper.

Oh yes - there is something odd about most of the models photographed for this manual - can you spot it?

…the answer is down at the bottom, just after the last page.

If you look at the bases used in the pictures for sets #1 to #5 you'll see that they aren't BAYKO bases at all, but wooden blocks, varnished and drilled to provide the necessary holes…

…the evidence can be seen in the photographs. You can see the occasional hole drilled for a previous model as the “bases” were re-used…

…thanks to Gary Birch's eagle eyes for noticing this!!!

If you would like to see the manual hot of the press, as it were…