BAYKO Adverts with STYRON

The name STYRON is a trademark of the Dow Chemical Company, under which they have marketed a range of POLYSTYRENE resins [a form of plastic as you probably guessed] since 1938.

The two adverts below clearly indicate that Plimpton were buying their POLYSTYRENE resins from Dow in 1959. The fact that the British Resin Products, part of the Dow Chemical Company, sought to associate themselves with the world's finest plastic construction toy must stand as a measure of the position which BAYKO held in the U.K. toy market at the time…

…it also seems to indicate a certain commercial naivety on Dow's part…

…surely they must have noticed the drop in sales volume!!!

These adverts nicely bracket the time that Plimpton were going under and MECCANO were taking over.

That this was the last cooperative venture between Plimpton and British Resin Products is, perhaps, further emphasised by the fact that the BAYKO advert in the same issue is on a separate page!