BAYKO in 'MECCANO Magazine', March 1962
Sun Life Assurance Building + Buckingham Palace

This is an article about the stunning BAYKO models of Buckingham Palace and the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada Headquarters building in Montreal - well, almost. We know for certain that the Buckingham Palace, and probably the Sun Life building as well, were built by MECCANO Model Room Manager, Bob Moy - but not from this article.

We know this from an article which appeared in the previous month's edition of 'British Toys', a magazine for the toy trade...

I'm aware there are people out there who think I am hard on Mr. MECCANO, but here, again, I think that I can quite easily justify my criticism. Why not read the article and then I'll ask you a question at the end of it - OK?

So, what was I beefing about?

The article shows two absolutely stunning BAYKO models, absolutely no complaint about them, far from it, Bob Moy and his team have done another great job...

...but, surely I must get some support for my view that this is yet another missed opportunity, on the part of Mr. MECCANO...

...two stunning BAYKO models don't even rate a third of the article...

...the other two thirds plus being about Lord Brabazon of Tara!

This is absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I have a personal grudge against Lord Brabazon...

...in 1953, I think it was, the Bristol Brabazon aircraft, named after the aforesaid luminary, whilst on a "tribute" flight over the towns which had contributed to its development, flew, at low level, straight over our house, just as I happened to be looking out of the window, and scared the **** out of the three year old BAYKOMAN!

These two weren't the only official models to be made in BAYKO. If you would like to find out more about BAYKO Supermodels...

BAYKO was a regular advertiser in 'MECCANO Magazine'...

There are two other features in 'MECCANO Magazine' which mentioned BAYKO...