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Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke
English toy construction-kit manufacturer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke (27 December 1877 Northampton ā 21 October 1953) was the son of Joseph Tom Lowke, a Northampton boilermaker and his wife, Eliza, and is noted for having founded the firm of Bassett-Lowke which specialised in producing construction sets, and model railways, boats and ships. He was married to Florence Jane Jones (9 May 1886 ā 8 February 1973) on 21 March 1917.[1]
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