The Leeds Model Company was a model railroad company.

The company made o gauge wooden coaches and wagons with lithograph sides and a very large range of model locomotive

Locomotive

A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...

s. Their quality was equal to that of most other companies at the time, including Bassett Lowke and Hornby Trains, which in the UK were widely accepted as the leading modeltrain company's of the 1920s and 1930s. LMC also produced track and other railway accessories. Just before WWII they started manufactuering their coaches and wagons out of bakelite.

History

Rex Stedman founded the Leeds Model Company (LMC or Leeds) in 1912. Rex Stedman left LMC in 1928 to found a new company under the name of R.F. Stedman & Co. He later purchased the LMC company, continuing to trade under the R.F. Stedman name. Stedman finally left in 1931, when the name reverted to LMC. In 1953, LMC became Ellemsee Accessories. The company survived until 1966. The Leeds Stedman Trust was established in 1983 to keep the archives of the Leeds Model Company and R. F. Stedman & Company. Today the Trust provides a service of spares, repairs and technical advice to LMC enthusiasts and continues to promote interest in and appreciation of the products of The Leeds Model Company.

External links

• Leeds Model Company collector
• Leeds Model Company catalogue archive
• Leeds StedmanTrust