BAYKO Sets #0 to #3 Instruction Manual -
September, 1955 - 16th 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 September, 1955 and designated as being the “16th issue”. The print code also records that 100,000 copies were printed.

This manual overlaps with the August, 1954 sets #0 to #4 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 16th 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…