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. If you have any questions about the Trust, would like to enquire for specific parts, place an order or make a comment please send us an email to dkp5506@yahoo.com
Bruce Palmer and John Davies
Many of you will be familiar with the work done by Bruce and John over the years producing and supplying models and parts of Leeds and other company coaches, wagons, lithographs, and a host of white metal castings. John withdrew from active involvement in the partnership some years ago. Bruce is seriously ill and now in hospital yet again. He has asked and I have agreed to take over his substantial working stocks and continue the business which he and John ran sucessfully over many years.
I now have in my possession all of the remaining wooden coach, and wagon bodies produced for Bruce by Paul Anderson, who has himself now withdrawn from the business. I shall begin listing Paul's accurate and well finished models in the near future. I have yet to go through the wide range of castings, many of which are LMC items but there are a large number applicable to other manufacturers, again a listing will follow soon. Finally Bruce and John had put together a large collection of lithographs 00 and 0 gauge, all well catalogued and carefully kept in six full ring binder files! These cover most of the LMC models but many more, such as the London Transport, and Isle of Wight Railways are for freelance items introduced by Bruce and John. Listing these will take a while for sure.
If you have been a customer of Bruce and John and require a repeat order or would like to check availability of any item of interest please do contact me.
David Peacock dkp5506@yahoo.com
This picture shows the longer of the two shelves. Some locomotives remain in the display cabinet in the house, but they will turn by turn be brought out for running sessions, which like those already featured appear as videos on this website.