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
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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 including The
Industrial Museum at Armley Mills, Leeds; Tappers Vintage '0' Gauge Group at
Bromley; with the Bassett-Lowke Society at Swindon; with the Train Collectors
Society at Sandy, Beds; with Brian Wright at Radley Oxon, and with others still
being negotiated.
Confirmed dates thus far are:
April 21/2 Bassett Lowke 20th Anniversary Event, Swindon Museum of Steam, info@bassettlowkesociety.org.uk
May 10/13* Leeds Industrial Museum, Armley Mills. www.leeds.gov.uk
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
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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Reluctantly, after continuing excessive spamming on our forum site, we have decided for the present to close this facility. In the past four weeks since we introduced the validation process over 800 spam messages have had to be rejected, and only one genuine message was found amongst all these! Thus if you have a genuine question about the Leeds Model Company etc, please use the Contact Us facility. we will respond
promptly. Dated December 17th.
'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.