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<font color=" | <font color="purple">○ '''Britains'''</font> <font color="Orange">○ '''Lesney'''</font> <font color="Red">○ '''Other companies'''</font> <font color="grey">○ '''secondary/later factories'''</font> | ||
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==Addresses== | ==Addresses== | ||
* '''A. Barrett & Sons''' – 9 Sonderberg Road, London N7 51.56237382447259 | * '''A. Barrett & Sons''' – 9 Sonderberg Road, London N7 {{GPSLink|51.56237382447259|-0.11219361298330517}} | ||
* '''Benbros''' – | * '''Benbros''' – 145 Gosport Road, Walthamstow, London E17 {{GPSLink|51.57820130176302|-0.02645209504634569}} | ||
* '''Britains''' – 28 Lambton Road, Hornsey Rise (1893) 51.56954015628545 | * '''Britains''' – 28 Lambton Road, Hornsey Rise (1893) {{GPSLink|51.56954015628545|-0.12200254095790947}} | ||
* Charbens – 219 Hornsey Road,London N7 51.56199060697971 | * '''Charbens''' – 219 Hornsey Road,London N7 {{GPSLink|51.56199060697971|-0.11697515949364115}} | ||
** 34 Mitford Road, N19 51.56434146884041 | ** 34 Mitford Road, N19 {{GPSLink|51.56434146884041|-0.11992134600133295}} | ||
** 20 Andover Yard, Hornsey Road, N19 51.56515411947415 | ** 20 Andover Yard, Hornsey Road, N19 {{GPSLink|51.56515411947415|-0.12010141716535135}} | ||
* '''Crescent Toys''' – 67, DeBeauvoir Crescent, Kingston Road, London 51.537266853993465 | * '''Crescent Toys''' – 67, DeBeauvoir Crescent, Kingston Road, London {{GPSLink|51.537266853993465|-0.07940892737448094}} | ||
** 6 and 8 Fountayne Road, South Tottenham, N15 51.58477925578302 | ** 6 and 8 Fountayne Road, South Tottenham, N15 {{GPSLink|51.58477925578302|-0.06348778294872215}} | ||
* | * '''DCMT''' (Lone Star) – River Works, 152 Green Lanes, Palmers Green {{GPSLink|51.61493499811144|-0.1088656729837913}} | ||
** Holloways Lane, Welham Green | ** Holloways Lane, Welham Green | ||
** 168 Gt. North Road, Hatfield 51.773194036607926 | ** 168 Gt. North Road, Hatfield {{GPSLink|51.773194036607926|-0.21722329561468284}} | ||
* The Harvey Toy Company (for Crescent) – Commerce Road, Wood Green 51.60186652639116 | * '''The Harvey Toy Company''' (for Crescent) – Commerce Road, Wood Green {{GPSLink|51.60186652639116|-0.1139695622735299}} | ||
* '''Johilco''' 2-22 Britannia Row, London N1 8PA 51.537682091988685 | * '''W. Horton''' – | ||
* '''Lesney''' | * '''Johilco''' 2-22 Britannia Row, London N1 8PA {{GPSLink|51.537682091988685|-0.09712737635583071}} | ||
* Mears and Freeman – 211 Northumberland Park, Tottenham, N17 51.604811 | * '''Lesney Products & Co''' ([[Matchbox]]), Homerton Road, Hackney, E9 5TR {{GPSLink|51.551552|-0.030845}} | ||
* '''Mears and Freeman''' – 211 Northumberland Park, Tottenham, N17 {{GPSLink|51.604811|-0.058207}} | |||
* '''Modern Products''' – | * '''Modern Products''' – | ||
* '''Morestone''' – | * '''Morestone''' – | ||
* '''Pixyland-Kew''' – | * '''Pixyland-Kew''' – | ||
* Jordan & Lewden Ltd. (River Series) – 52A Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, London, E.9 51.550735468244625 | * '''Jordan & Lewden Ltd.''' (River Series) – 52A Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, London, E.9 {{GPSLink|51.550735468244625|-0.0428103930180175}} | ||
* ''' | * '''F.G. Taylor''' – 22 Hampden Road, Upper Holloway, London N19 {{GPSLink|51.58724573789626|-0.10775738496316267}} | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:12, 26 April 2024
North London metal toy companies – Zoomable map
KEY: ○ Britains ○ Lesney ○ Other companies ○ secondary/later factories
Before and after World War Two, North London was (and probably still is) littered with small engineering fabrication companies that could produce metal toys in lead (predominantly pre-war), or, post-war, using the new diecasting alloys and hardware.
The Britains Limited legacy
For reasons that are not wholly clear (but might be due to the existence of Britains Ltd. in North London since the Nineteenth Century, and the large number of experienced employees and ex-employees that the company created), North London developed an extensive ecosystem of heavily-networked small producers, all vying for sales that the largest producers missed.
While the major brands (other than Britains) were in other parts of the country – Meccano Ltd were in Liverpool, Corgi Toys had a new grant-assisted factory in Wales, and Spot-On were produced in a new factory in Northern Ireland – almost all of Britain's other metal cast toys came from the North London area, to the extent that it's easier to name the small companies that weren't in the area (Horton were initially in North-West London, and then Yorkshire) than those that were.
The ecosystem
Many of these small producers had some or all of their toy output aggregated by separate distributors (like Morestone) who would deal with branding and distribution, often assembling a branded product line from the anonymous output of a large number of separate local producers, to the extent that with many of the small diecast toys from minor brands, although we may know the brandname and/or company name on the box, we don't know (and may never know) which company actually manufactured them.
Addresses
- A. Barrett & Sons – 9 Sonderberg Road, London N7 map
- Benbros – 145 Gosport Road, Walthamstow, London E17 map
- Britains – 28 Lambton Road, Hornsey Rise (1893) map
- Charbens – 219 Hornsey Road,London N7 map
- Crescent Toys – 67, DeBeauvoir Crescent, Kingston Road, London map
- 6 and 8 Fountayne Road, South Tottenham, N15 map
- DCMT (Lone Star) – River Works, 152 Green Lanes, Palmers Green map
- Holloways Lane, Welham Green
- 168 Gt. North Road, Hatfield map
- The Harvey Toy Company (for Crescent) – Commerce Road, Wood Green map
- W. Horton –
- Johilco 2-22 Britannia Row, London N1 8PA map
- Lesney Products & Co (Matchbox), Homerton Road, Hackney, E9 5TR map
- Mears and Freeman – 211 Northumberland Park, Tottenham, N17 map
- Modern Products –
- Morestone –
- Pixyland-Kew –
- Jordan & Lewden Ltd. (River Series) – 52A Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, London, E.9 map
- F.G. Taylor – 22 Hampden Road, Upper Holloway, London N19 map
External links
Subcategories
This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.
