Plastics and BAYKO

The primary purpose of this section of the website is to give a little thought to the general subject of plastics.

We are all familiar with plastics today and generally take their use for granted - in fact we probably don't really notice them at all.

However, given that BAYKO was the world's first plastic construction toy, plastics are a fundamental issue.

There is a section which discusses the specific plastics used during the lifetime of BAYKO...

Initially, BAYKO was manufactured in BAKELITE, the world's first commercial plastic...

BAYKO's status within the U.K. toy industry was occasionally used by the plastics industry to support the perception of the quality of the materials they supplied...

It's worth bearing in mind that, particularly during the first 15 years, while C.B. Plimpton was in charge, BAYKO was at the cutting edge in terms of cost-effective production of quality plastic parts for the mass market.

In another vein, British Industrial Plastics, a sometime supplier to Plimpton, ran a number of interesting adverts in the 'Illustrated London News' [e.g. above right] which are strangely quirky and somewhat uncommercial...

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