1. Charles Bird Plimpton was an English inventor and businessman.
12 Facts About Charles Plimpton
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Charles Plimpton invented Bayko in 1933, a plastic building model construction toy, and one of the earliest plastic toys to be marketed.
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Charles Plimpton established Plimpton Engineering in Liverpool, England, to manufacture the toy, which was sold across the world for over 30 years.
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Charles Plimpton was born in 1893 in Peckham, London, to John Calvin Plimpton, an American citizen, and Caroline Augusta Plimpton.
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In 1922 Charles Plimpton married Margaret Audrey, with whom he had two daughters, Anne and Jean.
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The late Mr Charles Plimpton was the proprietor of the Charles Plimpton Engineering Co.
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On 20 November 1933, Charles Plimpton applied for a patent for "An Improved Constructional Building Toy", which was granted on 16 January 1935 as patent No 422,645.
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Charles Plimpton's tuberculosis had resurfaced again and he had spent most of his last year in a sanatorium in North Wales.
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Charles Plimpton died on 29 December 1948 at the age of 55.
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Charles Plimpton was well respected in the toy trade, and an obituary was placed in the February 1949 issue of Games and Toys.
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Charles Plimpton's wife continued running Charles Plimpton Engineering for the next ten years, but retired in 1959 after Bayko began losing its market share to new construction toys like Lego.
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Charles Plimpton sold the company to Meccano Ltd in 1960, who continued manufacturing Bayko for another seven years.