Bassett-Lowke was an
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toy manufacturing company based in
Northampton
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. Founded by
Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke
Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke (27 December 1877 Northampton – 21 October 1953) was the son of Joseph Tom Lowke, a Northampton boilermaker and his wife, Eliza, and is noted for having founded the firm of Bassett-Lowke which specialised in producing ...
in 1898 or 1899, the company specialized in
model railways
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The scale models include locomotives, rolling stock, streetcars, t ...
,
boats and ships, and construction sets. Bassett-Lowke started as a
mail-order
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business, although it designed and manufactured some items.
The company closed in 1965, with its rights to brand acquired by
Corgi Toys
Corgi Toys (trademark) is the brand name of a range of die-cast toy vehicles created by Mettoy and currently owned by Hornby Railways, Hornby.[Hornby
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in 2008, it secured rights to the ''Bassett-Lowke'' brand, which is still commercialising.
Overview
Bassett-Lowke was a sales organization, contracting manufacturers such as
Twining Models
Twining Models of Northampton, England, was founded in 1920 by Ernest W. Twining. The firm had its origins in work Twining was doing as a sub-contractor to Bassett-Lowke's. It undertook, mostly for Bassett-Lowke's, (though never a formal part of ...
and Winteringham Ltd, also of Northampton. Until
World War I
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, the company also carried models made by
Bing
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and
Märklin
Gebr. Märklin & Cie. GmbH or Märklin (MÄRKLIN or MAERKLIN in capital letters) is a German toy company. The company was founded in 1859 and is based at Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg. Although it originally specialised in doll house accesso ...
.
Ship models
Today the name Bassett-Lowke is mostly associated with detailed model trains but the company also had a long history of contracting skilled craftsmen to make scale military and civilian waterline
ship model
Ship models or model ships are scale models of ships. They can range in size from 1/6000 scale wargaming miniatures to large vessels capable of holding people.
Ship modeling is a craft as old as shipbuilding itself, stretching back to ancient t ...
s out of wood and wire. Dereck Head in his "Bassett-Lowke Waterline Ship Models", states that before World War One, there was such a demand for these hand-made waterline 100 ft. to 1 inch scale wooden ship models that the company had to make available to its customers a less expensive line of waterline ship models, cast in white metal, to meet the demand. The name of the casting company supplying these inexpensive white metal ship models was B.M.C. The full name was Brighton Manufacturing Company Ltd, 32 Great St Helens, London, England. This metal casting company was a neighbour to Bassett-Lowke, within walking distance from the prominent glass display windows of the Bassett-Lowke shop located on High Holborn St. in London. At the beginning of World War One, government censors prohibited Bassett-Lowke from selling or advertising their famous line of 100 ft. to 1 inch or 1/1200 scale models of the Royal Navy. The fear was that the accuracy of these models could give vital information to the enemy. As a substitute for their line of prohibited Royal Navy ship models, Bassett-Lowke purchased the metal ship models of the Royal Navy made by B.M.C.
The full line of B.M.C. models of the Royal Navy can be seen in the Bassett-Lowke war time catalogue reprinted in Derek Head's book, pages 11 and 15. The collaboration between Bassett-Lowke and B.M.C. was a great benefit to both companies, allowing Bassett-Lowke to have a representation of the Royal Navy in their war time catalogue and giving the small metal casting company of B.M.C. a broader venue for the sales of their metal ship models. Some confusion as to who really made the metal models resulted from the claim made in the Bassett-Lowke catalogue on page 11 of Derek Head's book that the metal models were created at great expense in 1915 by Bassett-Lowke. This claim was merely an advertising ploy used by the Bassett-Lowke copy writers to conceal the fact that the more accurate models made by Bassett-Lowke had been banned by wartime government censorship. The truth is that B.M.C. had been an independent company prior to 1915, selling their metal waterline ship models for many years through advertisement and through shops specializing in military miniatures. Early in the century this small company had begun supplying lead waterline game models to the publishers of the Fred T. Janes Naval War Game, supplementing the pressed cork and wire waterline game models already being supplied to the game by others. In retrospect, the accomplishment of B.M.C. Is that this garage sized company had created the first metal ship models in a uniform scale to each other ever made.
These B.M.C. models were the forerunners of all the scale metal recognition models made by companies in later years such as Tremo, Viking and Authenticast. The resulting model fleet in metal carried in the Bassett-Lowke catalogue was of every class of ship in the British navy then in commission as of 1914. The models found in the collection range from the early 1882 Royal Sovereign class Pre-Dreadnoughts, some of which had been retained by the navy as bombardment ships, through to the newest Revenge class Super-Dreadnoughts which had just come into service. The 1917 Bassett-Lowke catalogue proudly boasts that "Practically every ship in the Navy has been modelled, including Super-Dreadnoughts, Battleships, Battle Cruisers, Armoured Cruisers, Light Cruisers, Destroyers, Torpedo Boats, Submarines, Mine Layers, Mine Sweepers, Troopships, Transports, Armed Liners and all Auxiliary Craft". The models were formed in lead with the wire masts cast into the hulls in a scale of one inch to 150 feet or 1/1800. They were painted and issued in numbered boxed sets by Bassett-Lowke, the boxes labelled “H.M.S. Irresistible”. Paper flags were supplied with each set, to be cut out and applied to the masts and sternposts.
Every class of vessel was easily recognizable by the funnels, guns and masts. While rudimentary by later standards, the B.M.C. production of over 101 different castings was the first scale metal ship model fleet ever produced and established the precedent for all subsequent scale metal waterline recognition ship models. In addition to the ship models, B.M.C. produced a fort with movable guns, four lighthouses and a game featuring a large fold-out map of the Dardanelles channel showing forts and minefields. The game was supplied with fifteen metal ship models including two mine sweepers and two submarines.
The B.M.C. ship models often appear for sale on internet auctions and at toy shows. Many times at these sales the B.M.C. models are found mixed with copies made by two later companies. The B.M.C. models can be distinguished from the copies since only the B.M.C. models have full-length wire masts cast into the hulls. The first type of copies are 31 models made by "Minifigs" These are cast in solid lead, have no wire masts and have large numbers inscribed on the bottom. The second type of copies comprise a group of four models made by Crescent which are cast in pot metal. They have numbers near the starboard stern numbering B.1, B.2, B.3, or B.4. Curiously, these pot-metal models retain the same numbering system that is cast into the hulls of the four B.M.C models from which they were derived.
These Crescent copies mimic the B.M.C. castings of the B.I Duncan, B.II Swiftsure, B.III King Edward VII, and the B.IV Lord Nelson. It is unknown when Bassett-Lowke ceased carrying the B.M.C metal ship models, however Derek Head in his book on page 12, states that metal ship models continued to be carried until the 1920’s. The larger highly accurate wood and wire ship models in the scale of one inch to 1200 inches or 1:1200, continued to be sold commercially and were used by the military for recognition and war gaming purpose. Unlike the B.M.C. lead models, which are in 1/1800 scale and are obscure to most collectors, these larger highly finished 100 to 1 inch or 1/1200 scale wooden ship models are prized by collectors and command a high price.
Model Trains
Bassett-Lowke produced trains from 15-inch (381 mm) gauge
live steam
Live steam is steam under pressure, obtained by heating water in a boiler. The steam is used to operate stationary or moving equipment.
A live steam machine or device is one powered by steam, but the term is usually reserved for those that ar ...
models to
Gauge 2
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,
Gauge 1
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and
0 gauge.
The first 15-inch steam locomotive, test run on the
Eaton Hall Railway
The Eaton Hall Railway was an early gauge minimum gauge estate railway built in 1896 at Eaton Hall in Cheshire. The line, which connected the Grosvenor estate with sidings at on the GWR Shrewsbury to Chester Line about away, opened in ...
in 1905, was ''Little Giant''. Unlike other engines on the line, it was a replica of main-line locos, built for a public miniature railway at
Blackpool
Blackpool is a seaside resort in Lancashire, England. Located on the North West England, northwest coast of England, it is the main settlement within the Borough of Blackpool, borough also called Blackpool. The town is by the Irish Sea, betw ...
. It was a quarter-scale
4-4-2 "Atlantic"
tender engine, though not an exact copy of any particular prototype. That engine still exists in private ownership.
In 1909, along with
Henry Greenly
Henry Greenly (1876–1947) was amongst the foremost miniature railway engineers of the 20th century, remembered as a master of engineering design.
Miniature railways
Greenly is perhaps best remembered for his miniature locomotive designs. He wor ...
, W.J. Bassett-Lowke started and edited
Model Railways and Locomotives Magazine
''Model Railways and Locomotive Magazine'' was an early British magazine devoted to railway modelling. It existed between January 1909 and September 1918 when it was renamed Models
History and profile
The first volume was published in January ...
.
In 1914, Bassett-Lowke produced the second "Pacific"
4-6-2 of any size built in Britain (the first was
GWR 111 ''The Great Bear''). That was ''John Anthony'', built for a miniature railway at Staughton Manor,
Cambridgeshire
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. It was never delivered, but after storage at
Eaton Hall during
World War I
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, was sold to the
Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway is a minimum gauge heritage railway in Cumbria, England. The line runs from Ravenglass to Dalegarth Station near Boot in the valley of Eskdale, in the Lake District. At Ravenglass the line ends at Raven ...
and renamed ''Colossus.'' It was scrapped in 1927. Ravenglass and Eskdale had purchased another Bassett Lowke Atlantic, the ''Sans Pareil''.
In the 1920s, Bassett-Lowke introduced
00 gauge products. The company provided custom-built railways, and one such gauge 1 layout survives in modified format at
Bekonscot
Bekonscot in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, is the oldest original model village in the world. It portrays aspects of England mostly dating from the 1930s.
Bekonscot was first created in the 1920s by a Beaconsfield resident, Roland Calli ...
Model Village in England.
In 1939, Bassett-Lowke was tasked with producing a working model of
Churchill's trench-digging
tank
A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engin ...
known as
Cultivator No. 6
Cultivator No. 6 was the code name of a military trench-digging machine developed by the British Royal Navy at the beginning of World War II. The machine was originally known as White Rabbit Number Six; this code name was never officially recog ...
.
Bassett-Lowke's decline, starting in the late 1950s, can be blamed on at least two factors: people would browse the firm's free catalogue and buy similar or nearly identical items elsewhere at lower price; and the interest in technical toys declined in the late 1950s and even more in the 1960s. Bassett-Lowke's fall was mirrored by its U.S. counterparts, the
A. C. Gilbert Company
The A. C. Gilbert Company was an American toy company, once one of the largest in the world. Gilbert originated the Erector Set, which is a construction toy similar to Meccano in the rest of the world, and made chemistry sets, microscope kits, ...
and
Lionel Corporation
Lionel Corporation was an American toy manufacturer and holding company of retailers that had been in business for over 120 years. It was founded as an electrical novelties company. Lionel specialized in various products throughout its existence. ...
. In 1964, the company ceased retail sales and sold its shops, including one at
High Holborn
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in London, to
Beatties
Beatties was a small British department store group located primarily in the Midlands of England. In 2005, when it had 12 stores, the group was acquired by House of Fraser. On 14 January 2006, the Birmingham store closed, because a similar Ho ...
. Bassett-Lowke went out of business in 1965.
In 1966, the company was acquired by Messrs Riley and Derry. Around 1969, Ivan Rutherford Scott, Allen L. Levy and Roland H. Fuller apparently made an effort to revive the model railway business. In the late 1980s, Nigel Turner, a
Northampton
Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England; ...
businessman, bought the business and based it next to his business, Turner's Musical Merry-Go-Round, near
Wootton, Northamptonshire
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Wootton is separated from Hardingstone by the Newport Pagnell Road the B526, formerly part of the A50 road. Part of Wootton is alongside the ...
. In 1993, the name was revived with short-run white-metal models. These included a
Burrell-type
traction engine
A traction engine is a steam engine, steam-powered tractor used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location. The name derives from the Latin ''tractus'', meaning 'drawn', since the prime function of any t ...
,
Clayton undertype
steam wagon
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, Burrell-type steam roller, and a London
B-type bus. The name was acquired in 1996 by
Corgi
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, which linked it with live steam
0-gauge locomotives.
Key competitors to Bassett-Lowke were
Hornby
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* Hornby, Hambleton, village in North Yorkshire
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and
Exley. Hornby acquired
Corgi
The Welsh Corgi ( or Corgi, plural Corgis, or occasionally the etymologically consistent Corgwn; ) is a small type of herding dog that originated in Wales. The name ''corgi'' is derived from the Welsh words and (which is mutated to ), mean ...
in 2008 and originally continued to make the 0 gauge models before later discontinuing them. The brand name was revived by them in 2020 for a range of
00 scale steampunk
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models based on existing Hornby toolings.
Narrow Gauge Railways Ltd
In 1912 W. J. Bassett-Lowke, Robert Proctor-Mitchell and John Wills set up ''Narrow Gauge Railways Ltd'' (NGR) to promote and run
railways. An earlier company, Miniature Railways of Great Britain Ltd, went into voluntary
liquidation
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in 1912. NGR's first railway opened in 1912 at Luna Park in the
Parc des Eaux Vives,
Geneva
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, Switzerland. In Britain, the
Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway is a minimum gauge heritage railway in Cumbria, England. The line runs from Ravenglass to Dalegarth Station near Boot in the valley of Eskdale, in the Lake District. At Ravenglass the line ends at Raven ...
was taken over, converted to gauge and re-opened in 1915. The
Fairbourne Railway
The Fairbourne Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd y Friog) is a gauge miniature railway running for from the village of Fairbourne on the Mid-Wales coast, alongside the beach to the end of a peninsula at Barmouth Ferry railway station, where there ...
in Wales followed in 1916.
Hornby
The Bassett-Lowke name was purchased by
Corgi
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after the company dissolved in 1965, who used it for Corgi Classics. Corgi (and the Bassett-Lowke brand) was bought by Hornby in 2008 who used it for traditional sheet metal railway models. In 2020 Bassett-Lowke branding was used by Hornby to launch a range of
steampunk
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inspired railway models. In 2021 brick-based construction models with steampunk themes were released under the Bassett-Lowke branding as the 'brickpunk' range aimed at both children and adults.
Locomotives
Bassett-Lowke locomotives were often renamed when moved to different railways, sometimes creating uncertainty about whether a locomotive is new or an old one with a new name. The list (probably incomplete) is not definitive. Most of Bassett-Lowke's locomotives were designed by
Henry Greenly
Henry Greenly (1876–1947) was amongst the foremost miniature railway engineers of the 20th century, remembered as a master of engineering design.
Miniature railways
Greenly is perhaps best remembered for his miniature locomotive designs. He wor ...
who was a contributor to
Model Engineer magazine
''Model Engineer Magazine'' was first published (in the United Kingdom) to support the hobby of model engineering in 1898 by Percival Marshall, who was to remain its editor for over 50 years. It has been owned by MyTime Media since 2008. The mag ...
.
Model Engineer magazine
''Model Engineer Magazine'' was first published (in the United Kingdom) to support the hobby of model engineering in 1898 by Percival Marshall, who was to remain its editor for over 50 years. It has been owned by MyTime Media since 2008. The mag ...
3810 (1987)
Class 10 Atlantic
* ''Little Giant'' for
Blackpool
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* ''Mighty Atom'' for
Sutton Miniature Railway
* ''Entente Cordiale'' for the 1909 Exposition Internationale de l'Est de France in
Nancy
* ''Red Dragon'' for the Imperial International Exhibition of 1909 at
White City, London
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* ''Green Dragon'' for the Imperial International Exhibition of 1909 at
White City, London
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* ''King Edward'' for the 1910 International and Universal Exhibition in
Brussels
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, Belgium
* ''King Albert'' for the 1910 International and Universal Exhibition in
Brussels
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, Belgium
* ''King Leopold'' for the 1910 International and Universal Exhibition in
Brussels
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, Belgium
* ''George the Fifth'' for
Lakeside Miniature Railway
The gauge, single track Lakeside Miniature Railway runs along the seaward side of the Marine Lake in Southport, England.
Route
The railway originally consisted of a straight running line on the seaward shore of the Southport Marine Lake ...
* ''Hungaria'' (No. 19) built in 1912 originally for Luna Park
Geneva
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, Switzerland, then taken to Vidámpark (Amusement Park),
Budapest
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, Hungary in 1914. Boiler changed in 1952, withdrawn in 1974, taken to a scrapyard but saved by the Transport Museum. Currently displayed in Zánkafürdő Railway Station,
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
.
Class 20 Atlantic
* ''Prince Edward of Wales'' for
Fairbourne Railway
The Fairbourne Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd y Friog) is a gauge miniature railway running for from the village of Fairbourne on the Mid-Wales coast, alongside the beach to the end of a peninsula at Barmouth Ferry railway station, where there ...
* ''Prince of Wales'' for
Lakeside Miniature Railway
The gauge, single track Lakeside Miniature Railway runs along the seaward side of the Marine Lake in Southport, England.
Route
The railway originally consisted of a straight running line on the seaward shore of the Southport Marine Lake ...
Class 30 Atlantic
* ''Synolda'' for
Sand Hutton Miniature Railway, then to
Belle Vue, Manchester
Belle Vue is an area of Manchester, England, east of the city centre, bordered by the Hope Valley Line on the east and the Glossop Line on the west. Belle Vue is part of the electoral ward of Longsight. Belle Vue railway station lies on the ...
, later
Southend-on-Sea
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, currently
Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway is a minimum gauge heritage railway in Cumbria, England. The line runs from Ravenglass to Dalegarth Station near Boot in the valley of Eskdale, in the Lake District. At Ravenglass the line ends at Raven ...
.
* ''Sans Pareil'' for Luna Park,
Geneva
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...
, Switzerland, then to
Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway is a minimum gauge heritage railway in Cumbria, England. The line runs from Ravenglass to Dalegarth Station near Boot in the valley of Eskdale, in the Lake District. At Ravenglass the line ends at Raven ...
.
* ''Count Louis'' for
Count Louis Zborowski, then to
Fairbourne Railway
The Fairbourne Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd y Friog) is a gauge miniature railway running for from the village of Fairbourne on the Mid-Wales coast, alongside the beach to the end of a peninsula at Barmouth Ferry railway station, where there ...
. then to
Evesham Vale Light Railway
The Evesham Vale Light Railway operates in Evesham Country Park in Worcestershire
Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the ...
and now (2019) tours railways around the UK.
Class 60 Pacific
* ''John Anthony'' for J.E.P. Howey, then (renamed ''Colossus'') to
Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway is a minimum gauge heritage railway in Cumbria, England. The line runs from Ravenglass to Dalegarth Station near Boot in the valley of Eskdale, in the Lake District. At Ravenglass the line ends at Raven ...
.
The Class 10 and Class 20 had narrow fireboxes. The Class 30 and Class 60 had wide fireboxes.
See also
*
Model Engineer magazine
''Model Engineer Magazine'' was first published (in the United Kingdom) to support the hobby of model engineering in 1898 by Percival Marshall, who was to remain its editor for over 50 years. It has been owned by MyTime Media since 2008. The mag ...
*
Minimum-gauge railway
Minimum-gauge railways have a gauge of most commonly , , , , , or . The notion of minimum-gauge railways was originally developed by estate railways and the French company of Decauville for light railways, trench railways, mining, and farming ...
*
Ridable miniature railway
A ridable miniature railway (US: riding railroad or grand scale railroad) is a large scale, usually ground-level railway that hauls passengers using locomotives that are often models of full-sized railway locomotives (powered by diesel or petrol ...
*
Live steam
Live steam is steam under pressure, obtained by heating water in a boiler. The steam is used to operate stationary or moving equipment.
A live steam machine or device is one powered by steam, but the term is usually reserved for those that ar ...
References
*Derick Head "Bassett-Lowke Waterline Ship Models", New Cavendish Books;
* Fuller, Roland; Levy Allen "The Bassett-Lowke Story", New Cavendish, / 9780904568349
* Mosley, D. and van Zeller, P. (1986) ''Fifteen inch gauge railways : their history, equipment and operation'', Newton Abbot : David & Charles,
*
External links
*
Bassett-Lowke SocietyLickey Incline Preserved Rail ResourcesAcetrains.co.ukBassett-Lowke collection, Brighton Toy and Model Museum
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