BAYKO Sets #0 to #3 Instruction Leaflet -
1947 - Version 3

This Instruction Leaflet, unusually stapled at the top in terms of 7 of the pages, even though they are landscape orientation, was produced by Plimpton for their first post-war BAYKO sets from 1946 to 1948. None of the early post-war manuals has “How to Build with BAYKO” instructions, this document fulfilled that role. This is the third version and dates from 1947 , and is shown courtesy of Andrew Lance and Peter Hilton.

This period after the war was chaotic in many ways. Materials shortages lead Plimpton to be modest in their printed matter, and as economical as possible, and, as part of that, this leaflet is printed on a very basic newsprint paper. Set contents and the instruction manuals were printed as separate documents at various stages, and there is a table of links to all the various versions of these in the navigation table [below].

Altogether, for product change, Purchase Tax hikes, and marketing requirements, there are five domestic versions of this Leaflet and one Canadian.

Page 8, [below] is obviously(!) the same size as the other pages, but I have deliberately displayed it in its correct portrait orientation. This is the third version of this manual, however, the difference between it and its immediate predecessor is truly minimal. Page 8 of the this version now carries the legend “Plus 3d. in the 1/- Purchase Tax” [i.e. 25%] overprinted, vertically, at the right hand side of the page.

As a piece of continuing trivia, on page 3 [below], the word 'showing', on the second line of the first paragraph, was misspelled as “shewing” in version 1 and has still not been corrected.

When set #3 was introduced in 1948, this leaflet, or rather one of its successors, was still being included, in that instance, along with a specific set #3 manual.

It comprises just 8 pages, printed in black on cheap, off-white, newsprint type paper.

Size 178mm x 124mm = 7.0 x 4.9 inches.

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