BAYKO Sets #0 to #3 Instruction Manual -
January, 1955 - 15th Issue

This Instruction Manual was produced by Plimpton for their basic range of BAYKO sets - sets #0 to #3, and was the bread and butter of BAYKO's heydays, with a total of 20 issues being printed.

It is print coded January, 1955 and designated as being the “15th issue”. The print code also records a doubling of the previously standard quantity, at 100,000 copies.

This version overlaps with the August, 1954 manual and the September, 1954 set #3X manual.

The manual was printed by J.H. Leeman Ltd., Leighton Printing Works, Neston, Wirral. It has a full colour cover, the rest of the 40 pages are printed in red, green and black on white, gloss paper.

Page 33 [below] contains an ongoing anomaly. The list of new parts included in sets #3X and #4 continues to omit the Dome and both the Pinnacle Roof and Platform, despite the fact that these were certainly included following the launch of set #4 early in 1952.

As far as I can tell, this issue of the manual is identical to its predecessor.

Size - 250mm x 185mm = 9.8 x 7.3 inches.
It is labelled as the 15th issue.
Number of this version that were printed - 100,000.

If you would like to see the manual hot off the press, as it were…