BAYKO Remembered -
Remember When by Robert Opie

Remember When, by Robert Opie, is an excellent example of those increasingly familiar coffee-table books, in this case showing, decade by decade, a brief summary of features of everyday life in Britain.

Life is split up into sections such as "Events", "House and Home", "Products", "Toys", etc...

...the page below appears under the "1950's", "Toys" section.

"After the lean post-war years the toy industry bounced back with growing confidence. Many businesses were set up soon after the war by ex-servicemen such as Leslie Smith and Rodney Smith (unrelated) who, having left the Royal Navy, established a small die-cast business in London. A former Army engineer, Jack Odell, joined the Smiths, who founded Lesney Products. The breakthrough came in 1953 when the firm made over a million scale models of the Queen's coronation coach. The highly successful Matchbox series of models followed.
Comics were another area of the children's market to undergo a transformation. After the end of the paper shortages in 1950, new titles appeared fast, the Eagle that same year. Free gifts reappeared in 1954 - particularly coveted was the space gun given away with the first issue of Tiger, which featured Roy of the Rovers. Meanwhile Dennis the Menace had been causing havoc since joining the Beano in 1951."

Above is page 142 of Remember When, by Robert Opie, with a BAYKO set clearly visible in the bottom left hand corner.
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The rest of the script, which was partly written as a description of the photographs, then briefly mentions BAYKO...

Just for the record, I also had one of the Magic Robot games [top left]. I can remember myself, and other members of the family, playing with it regularly in the mid and late 1950's. Perhaps that's why I love quizzes and quiz programmes to this day.