BAYKO Printers

This section is fairly short, but I thought it would be useful to list the available information on the printing companies, used over BAYKO's lifetime, on a separate page to make it easier to reference from different parts of the site.

Firstly, let's put things into context. Although not obviously so at first sight, BAYKO was a reasonably significant player in the Merseyside printing game - as a consumer. There were 3,000 plus different outlets for BAYKO in the U.K. alone, so runs of 200,000 of single sheet fliers, used by retailers to introduce potential customers to BAYKO, were not unusual - that's actually only 67 per shop.

With peak BAYKO production of over 150,000 sets a year, print runs of the standard 1950's manual for set #0 to set #3 - which weighed in at no less than forty pages - could similarly top the 100,000 mark.

I rather suspect that the BAYKO printing buyer would have been quite well treated by eager local printers!

As far as printing is concerned, Plimpton were definitely somewhat promiscuous!

Many of the post-war BAYKO fliers and the manuals included with the BAYKO sets were printed on the Wirral, by : -

Before and during the war, some, at least, of the BAYKO manuals, and other literature, were printed by : -

The manuals for BAYKO sets #1 to #6 from 1935 to 1938 were printed by : -

The manuals for BAYKO sets #20 to #23, from 1938 to 1940, were [though, based on the quality of many that I've seen, I wouldn't be too eager to claim the fact!!!] printed by: -

Sadly a large number of Plimpton era documents and, as far as I can establish, all the MECCANO era BAYKO documents, were published without the helpful use of any discernable printer's marks, though some do carry the legend, "Printed in England"...

For the record, I wouldn't be too surprised if MECCANO did all their own printing, including for the BAYKO range - well, almost...

...I have one version of the MECCANO General Products Price List, dated June, 1966, for the Australian market, which was printed by : -

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