BAYKO in SWITZERLAND

The above MECCANO ERA document is the standard U.K. catalogue of the same date, but translated into French. The pull-out price booklet [top right] is in Swiss Francs.

Switzerland has three further official languages, German, Italian and Romansh, but I can't tell you, at this stage, whether or not any or all of those languages were catered for - but if I can find them, they will be displayed here…

It's quite possible, leaving the language question aside, that this is the only Swiss document to mention BAYKO, and, if that is the case, then we have to assume that the world's first and finest plastic construction toy flopped in the alps, though it may have been more by close association with MECCANO itself, which too was in terminal decline.

The Swiss BAYKO importer is shown as being : -

My apologies for any distortion in the image [left] which I have had to 'straighten' from an angled photograph.

The document is like the contemporary U.K. catalogue, except for…

…the sparse display of products forming the loco…

…showing that this version excludes BAYKO!!!

Actually it only mentions MECCANO, though the loco chimney does look like 80% of a BAYKO Canopy!

The local Swiss importer is shown as : -

This is the same importer as that mentioned in the earlier catalogue, though with a different address.