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Northampton Bassett-Lowke Ltd nd Interwar c1925

12pp +12 unpaginated single sided loose leaf pages in sepia showing completed designs in a pocket at the end. Paper wrappes with colour paste down label on upper wrapper. Loose leaf pages slightly damaged at bottom edge with ancient water stain not affecting the images. Twining Models Ltd were makers of Models of Factories and Works, Cities, Towns and Villages, Buildings, Docks for Exhibition and General Publicity. Twining Models were founded in 1920 and originally it undertook, mostly for Bassett-Lowke's and continued with a wider brief until 1967. In the post war period the firm made a number of planning models used in the redevelopment of bomb-damaged cities, but these images show the inter war work for Port Sunlight, Dailmer's Coventry Plant, Boots Factory Nottingham and other industrial complexes including Durban in South Africa. The text pages explains the range of models they undertook. The firms is known for making the model of the Queens Dolls House, by Lutyens but this is not shown in the publication. Scarce.

Stock ID: 23254
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