“An instructive architectural toy”
Invented by William Bailey and first patented in May 1915. Manufactured by William Bailey Ltd, Birmingham, England and sold during 1916-1930s.
Other sources:
meccanoindex.co.uk/Wenebrik
Ebook: Building Toys: Bayko and other systems
Museum: brightontoymuseum.co.uk
Patents
First patent: GB 191500382A, date of application: 19th Jan. 1915:
More existing patents:
FR: 1915 Dec. : FR480566A
CH: 1916 Jan.: CH72742A
DE: 1920 April: DE320132C
AT: 1921 March: AT83015B
On the box cover, also other countries are mentioned:
Australia, Canada, Italy, and New Zeeland.
Boxes available
Set 0, 1, 2a
There are 6 basic sets, numbered from 0 to 5.
Set 0 contains 111 parts and Set 5: 1168 parts.
There are also ‘Accessory Sets’, from 0a up to 4a, for upgrading that standard set.
Parts & building instuctions
There are 27 different parts available.
Wenebrik: Building with Set No. 2:
Manuals
The only manual I’ve (with BW front cover):
Another manual with colored front page: meccanoindex.com
Some system characteristics
Here a short list of some system characteristics and how it’s retrofitted into the virtual LeoCAD library:
| Part types: | Original: | Virtual: |
|---|---|---|
| Steel plates | Metal, painted Thikness: ~0.35 [mm] | Single color pieces |
| Bay size | 1.5 [inch] | tbd [mm] |
| LeoCAD settings: | ||
| Draw line every X studs | – | |
| Snap XY | 1 [mm] 1/20 stud | |
| Snap Z | 1 [mm] 1/20 stud | |
| Rotations | 90 [deg] |
Library information
Here an overview of the parts library:
Still missing the 2 chimney parts (#19)…
Building in LeoCAD
To be ounest, I did not enjoy building the real model. I could have done a better job, by aligning the parts better, but it still a challenge. Building with LeoCAD was about the same experience. So in a sence, a good copy of the real building.