Category:Bassett-Lowke Ltd

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Bassett-Lowke Ltd

Bassett-Lowke catalogue cover, 1904-5

Bassett-Lowke catalogue cover, 1904-5 [image info]

Bassett-Lowke catalogue, titlesheet, 1904

Bassett-Lowke catalogue, titlesheet, 1904 [image info]

Private Owner's Wagon, Bassett-Lowke Model Enginers, gauge 0

Private Owner's Wagon, Bassett-Lowke Model Enginers, gauge 0 [image info]

Bassett-Lowke catalogue, Section A (Model Trains)

Bassett-Lowke catalogue, Section A (Model Trains) [image info]

Bassett-Lowke, Model Makers catalogue cover

Bassett-Lowke, Model Makers catalogue cover [image info]

Bassett-Lowke Catalogue, Section A

Bassett-Lowke Catalogue, Section A [image info]

Bassett-Lowke "Lowko" graphic, 1930s

Bassett-Lowke "Lowko" graphic, 1930s [image info]

The Bassett-Lowke company started as a model engineering supplies company in 1899, and became a limited company in 1909. It was founded by Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke and H.F.R Franklin, with the help of WJ's father. The company's initial premises were a site owned by the Bassett-Lowke family's boilermaking business (of which Franklin had been the company accountant), and it went on to become one of the country's largest suppliers of medium and large-gauge model railways, model ships, and exhibition models.

The company name is often abbreviated to B-L by enthusiasts. Where the influence of an outside primary manufacturer is recognisable, models may sometimes be referred to by collectors as being "Bing for B-L", or "Carette for B-L", .

Key engineers and designers

Helped by Percival Marshall, WJ assembled a formidable pool of talent for his new business. George Winteringham had designed some mass-producable model railway track, and in 1902 he joined the company and ran a new B-L factory space, Winteringham Ltd., aided by engineer J. Mackenzie. The talented small-scale model railway engineer Henry Greenly joined as a consulting engineer to produce new designs, and in 1904 became the engineer for an offshoot B-L company to produce exhibition small-scale railways and garden railways, Miniature Railways of Great Britain. When the first London showroom was opened in 1908 it was run by E.W. Hobbs, a well-known marine arch

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