Category:Wardie Master Models

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Wardie Master Models


Card box, Wardie Master Models

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Wardie Master Models were a well-respected range of diecast metal accessories for 00-gauge model railway layouts, competing with some of the smaller-scale Dinky Toys accessories, and with the Britains Liliput range.

Promotional materials

Master Models had good-quality castings and bright colours, but, as B.J. Ward was rather smaller than their competitors like Meccano Ltd and Britains, and didn't have expensive graphic designers and artists on the payroll, the range was rather let down by the slightly unflattering "blobby" black-and-white photographic catalogue and advertising images, and the slightly wierd numbering scheme.

Manufacturing (Kemlows)

The Master Models range seems to have been manufactured for B.J. Ward by Kemlows Diecasting Products Ltd.

Kemlows was founded in 1946 by Charles Kempster and William Lowe in 1946, and is still going, although it has now moved out of London.

1959 listing

transcribed from the Gamages catalogue for 1959

  • No. 1 – Railway Staff ×
  • No. 2 – Railway Passengers ×5
  • No. 3 – Assorted Figures ×5
  • No. 4 – Seated Figures ×5 (no seat)
  • No. 5 – Seated Figures (seat not included)
  • No. 6 – Double Station Seat
  • No. 8 – Platform Accessories ×8
  • No. 8 – Milk Churns (two types) ×12
  • No. 10 – Station Equipment
  • No. 11 – Four Sheep in Pen
  • No. 12 – Electric Trolley and Trailer
  • No. 14 – W.H.Smith Bookstall
  • No. 15 – Police and Telephone Booths
  • No. 16 – Station Lamps
  • No. 18 – Cable Drums, ×1 lagged, ×1 unlagged
  • No. 19 – Tar Barrels
  • No. 20 – Oil Barrels
  • No. 21 – Island Platform Garden
  • No. 21 – Platform Gardens ×4
  • No. 22 – Station Platform Garden
  • No. 23 – Track Repair Party ×5
  • No. 26 – Sleeper Buffer
  • No. 28 – 5" Ladders ×6
  • No. 33 – 6 ESSO Oil Drums
  • No. 34 – Watchman's Hut and Workman
  • No. 35 – Cable Laying Party ×4
  • No. 36 – Finlays Tobacco Kiosk
  • No. 37 – Walton Fruit Kiosk
  • No. 38 – Sand Bin and Fire Buckets
  • No. 40 – Permanent Way Cabin
  • No. 41 – Water Column
  • No. 42 – Railway Container
  • No. 43 – Cycle Rack, four cycles
  • No. 45 – Coal Office
  • No. 48 – Water Crane
  • No. 49 – Level Crossing Gates on Ramp
  • No. 50 – AA Box and Patrolman
  • No. 51 – Ground Signal 1
  • No. 52 – Ground Signal 2
  • No. 57 – Crew Unloading Trucks ×6
  • No. 58 – Track Ballast
  • No. 59 – Two Tarpaulin Sheets
  • No. 61 – Two A.A. Boxes
  • No. 62 – Police Box and Patrolman
  • No. 64 – Wicket Gates
  • No. 65 – Charrington's Coal Bunkers, Scale, and Coalman
  • No. 66 – Two Station Clocks
  • No. 67, 69 – Street Personnel ×7
  • No. 68 – Girder Bridge for single track
  • No. 70 – Bus Shelter
  • No. 71 – Crane on Base
  • No. 72 – Gent's Toilet
  • No. 74 – Single Fencing
  • No. 75 – Seat with three figures
  • No. 76 – Level Crossing Gates, Double Track
  • No. 77 – Double Girder Bridge
  • No. 80 – Loading Gauge
  • No. 81 – Tractor and Roller
  • No. 82 – Tractor and Rake
  • No. 83 – Tractor and Hay-Car
  • No. 84 – Signal Gantry
  • No. 85 – Service Personnel
  • No. 86 – BR Personnel
  • No. 87 – Esso Petrol Pumps ×2 on Stand
  • No. 88 – with RAC and Enquiry Booth (4 pieces)
  • No. 89 – Footbridge
  • No. 92 – signals, four types, electric
  • No. 94 – 3 Bus and 1 Coach Stop
  • No. 96 – Left Luggage Office
  • No. 97 – Oil Storage Tanks
  • No. B.S.2 – Buffer Stop with Lamp
  • No. C2 – Imitation Coal
  • No. H.1 – Small Hoarding
  • No. H.2.T.1 – Hoardings and Time-Table
  • No. H.3.T.4 – Warning Notice and Train Departure Board
  • No. K16 – Filling Station
  • No. K24 – Six Petrol Pumps
  • No. K54 – Car Ramp
  • No. K59 – Private Garage
  • No. L.A.2 – Two Lamps with advertisements
  • No. MP – Miniature Posters ×50
  • No. 00 – Background Scenic Effects ×4
  • No. Q1 – Imitation Quarry Granite
  • No. Set A – Three Track Signs
  • No. Set B.C – Four Track Signs
  • No. SG4 – Single Seats (4)
  • No. SM4 – Single Seats, green ×4
  • No. T.3 – Large Timetable

1959 Gallery:

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