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Throughout its forty-seven year history, Twining Models established a reputation as one of the foremost British model makers. It specialised in architectural, industrial, and transport models. Before WW2 it made a number of models for the Queen Mary's Dolls' House , designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and now at Windsor Castle , stained-glass work (on which Twining was an expert) and astronomical telescopes. After WW2 the firm made a number of planning models used in the re-development of bomb-damaged cities, also various kinds of power stations and industrial developments. The firm was never large, usually employing only a handful of craftsmen. In all some 400 models were made by the firm during its existence.


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  • Chapter 5 of Buck, Stan, ''E. W. Twining, Modelmaker, Artist & Engineer'', Landmark Publishing, 2004 (ISBN 1-84306-143-0)