THE BRITISH TOY BUSINESS 1700-PRESENT - ILLUS HISTORY

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The British Toy Business: A History since 1700by Kenneth Douglas BrownHardcover, dust jacket, 6 3/8" x 9 1/2", 280 pages, new and in mint condition. Illustrated with eight pages of rare black-and-white photographs. From the dust jacket: At its height British toymaking was a significant industry, with famous names such as Britains and Meccano known throughout the world. While in essence a specialised form of small-scale engineering, its products and market have always been unique, reflecting the current priorities of both parents and children. Yet, while individual toys and marques have been catalogued extensively, no previous history of toymaking as a whole exists. The British Toy Business provides a fascinating example of the development of a specific industry over a period of 300 years. Many early early toys were home-made. From the eighteenth century, with its growing recognition of children as something other than small adults, date the beginnings of specialised toys, usually produced by small workshops and sold by street-sellers. The nineteenth century, with its industrial growth and middle-class prosperity, saw an expansion of toymaking. The early twentieth century and the years between the wars saw the heyday of firms such as Hornby and Britains, yet British toy makers failed to solve a number of fundamental problems. Marketing and financial control remained weak, and British companies were slow to realise the potential of computerised games. Following an unexpected sudden downturn in sales at a time of high interest rates, several of the major names in British toy making, including Lesney, Airfix, Mettoy and Dunbee Combex Marx, collapsed between 1979 and 1983, leaving the business to be dominated largely by importers. INDEX AP. and M. Abbatt Â* Action G.T. Â* Advertising Â* Airfix Co. Â* America (as market for British toys; as supplier of toys to Britain; investment in British toy industry; toy fair; toy industry) Â* Antiwar-toy movements Â* Mabel Lucie Atwell Â* Aurora toys Â* Automata BWilliam Bailey Â* Charles Baker Â* Alec Bangham Â* Barclay Securities Â* Barringer, Wallis and Manners Co. Â* G.C. Bartley Â* Bedington Liddiatt Co. Â* Bassett Lowke Co. Â* Richard Beecham Â* Bendy toys Â* Berwick Timpo Co. Â* Bing Brothers Â* Birmingham Â* Bluebird toys Â* Board games Â* Board of Trade Toy Inquiry (1922) Â* Bon MarchÃY Â* Charles Booth Â* Wendy Boston Â* Brighton toy fair Â* Brimtoy Co. Â* Dennis Britain Â* Fred Britain Â* William Britain Â* Britains Ltd Â* British Indoor Games Co. Â* British Industries Fair Â* British Metal and Toy Manufacturers Ltd Â* British Toy and Hobby Association (BTHA) Â* British toy industry (exports; imports; labour force; location; trade press; wages) Â* British Toy Manufacturers Association (BTMA) Â* Burbank toys Â* Burlington Arcade Â* Sidney Buxton CCascelloid Co. Â* Cassidy Brothers Â* Census of Production (1907) Â* Chad Valley Co. Â* Character merchandising Â* Charbens Co. Â* Cherilea toys Â* Paul Chevenix Â* Children, social attitudes towards Â* Children's Play Activities Ltd Â* Chiltern toys Â* China Â* Christmas Â* W.S. Churchill Â* Corgi toys Â* Crayonne Co. Â* W.H. Cremer Â* Crescent toys DDanger at Play (1959) Â* William Darton Â* David Day Â* Dean's rag toys Â* John Deard Â* Daniel Defoe Â* Dekker toys Â* Charles Dickens Â* Die-cast toys Â* Dinky toys Â* Dolls, Action Man Â* Dolls, Barbie Â* Dolls, Bartholomew babies Â* Dolls, bisque Â* Dolls, composition Â* Dolls, celluloid Â* Dolls, French Â* Dolls, makers Â* Dolls, paper Â* Dolls, plastic Â* Dolls, rag Â* Dolls, Sindy Â* Dolls, talking Â* Dolls, wax Â* Dolls, wooden Â* Dunbee Combex Marx (DCM) Co. EEarls Court toy fair Â* Educational role of toys Â* M. and R.L. Edgeworth Â* Ralph Ehrmann Â* Eisenmann Co. (Einco) Â* Entrepreneurship Â* European Federation of Toy Industries Â* European Federation of Toy Manufacturers Â* Evans and Cartwright F Â* G Fairs Â* J.K. Farnell Co. Â* Faudel Co. Â* Denys Fisher Â* Fisher-Price toys Â* France (... read more

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