The 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, founded by Rex Stedman in 1912, and which ceased to trade in 1967.
David K. Peacock, Co- proprietor, Trustee and Archivist
Marcus D. Peacock, Co-proprietor and Trustee
Reginald Frederick (Rex) Stedman
1893 -1959
Latest News
Centenary Exhibition in Leeds
The Industrial Museum at Armley Mills Leeds was the second of the Centenary venues for the Trust. The Museum gave us a room, large enough to display the full archive of models and to have Maurice Pilsworth's 20ft x 8ft twin track layout on which to run them. The Museum also displayed some of the models which had been placed with them in the first days of the Trust. These included early 4-4-0 tank locos and Rex Stedman's master model for the Great Central Directors.
Leeds Show - The full archive - well almost!
The Trust archives will be in Leeds again for the final centenary display at the Leeds Model Railway Society Exhibition, October 27 - 28, make a note of the date, especially if you missd us at Armley Mills!
Leeds Show 2 LMS Sir Gilbert Claughton hauls five bakelite coaches down the long straight
The next exhibition of the archive will be on June 23, at Brian Wrights Wind Up at Radley
Leeds on show with Bassett-Lowke at Swindon
Leeds models, mainly Great Western, were proudly displayed, for the first of
eight Centenary presentations, at the Bassett-Lowke Society 20th Anniversary
Show at Swindon, April 21-22. The show was an outstanding success, featuring as
it did the best of model railways dating from the early 1900's to the present
day.
Best wishes to all for 2012, the LMC Centenary Year.
During this special year for the Leeds Model Company we shall be exhibiting
and running our archive collection of models at several venues.
Confirmed dates thus far are:
June 23rd Brian Wright’s Wind-up Radley Oxon. brian.mrcat@ntlworld.com
July 7th * Train Collectors Society Annual Exhibition Sandy, Beds. tcsweb@ntlworld.com
July 14th * Tappers Vintage 0 Gauge Group Bromley.
September 8/9 Gauge 0 Guild Telford. www.gauge0guild.com
September 15th - October 20th, a cabinet display at the Brighton Toy Museum
October 27/28* Leeds Model Railway Society Annual Exhibition, Leeds. www.leedmrs.org
Asterisk* indicates display with an operating layout. Other venues are displays only.
We hope that you will be able to visit at least one of these ‘once in a century’ exhibitions!
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'The Leeds Model Company 1912 -2012'
the book now available from the Trust, because it has an ISBN number, been advised as available to Amazon, WH Smith, Waterstones, Foyles and other booksellers. At present however the book can only be obtained directly from the Leeds Stedman Trust. If you wish to obtain a copy please use the Contact page on this website. The book is priced at £19.95 per copy plus £2.55 post and packing.
The book (128 pages), with both colour and black and white illustrations and with 24 chapters and 19 appendices, covers every aspect of the company history and products. An accompanying DVD has two video programmes, 'The Leeds Stedman Trust' made for the Gauge 0 Guild by David Peacock and Jack Ray, and 'Augurswell and Great Blessingsby', the Trust layout, made by David Peacock and Chris Pettit. The disc also carries as a CD a high quality photograph of every locomotive and item of rolling stock held in the Trust archive
NEW Southern Railway Coach lithographs. The original LMC lithograph masters were lost in the fire of 1932 and never reproduced. Now the Leeds Stedman Trust in collaboration with Bug Print, Tasmania, is pleased to offer litho sets for the 12 inch standard LMC coaches. The individual coach types have been re-mastered to be very close in appearence to the LMC originals, - the photo shows the mainline (corridor) coach and brake coach. Sets are also available for the suburban coacch and brake end. Priced at £10.00 per coach set, post extra, these new lithos are sure to please SR enthusiasts, or anyone wishing to renovate their 'tattered' old stock.
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