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A History of Special Interest Model Books

Welcome to Special Interest Model Books

Special Interest Model Books represents one of the finest lists of model hobby books available in the English Language. The publisher was born under the banner of MAP (Model and Allied Publications) shortly after World War II. Founded at Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire, MAP published a range of modelling magazines including Aeromodeller and Model Maker and several supporting books such as the Aeromodeller Annuals.

MAP acquired the long-established Percival Marshal, publisher of Model Engineer magazine and a range of allied books (several of which are still in print) and building on these solid foundations, started to expand its book publishing programme, branching into more areas of the model hobby area as their magazine interests expanded.

 

By the 1970’s a large spectrum of hobby activities were reflected in the MAP list of magazines including model engineering, military modelling, car, aircraft and boat modelling in addition to film, photographic and
woodworking titles.

The small, independent MAP was bought out by Argus Press in the mid-70’s and the book publishing interests were hived off to become a company in its own right - Argus Books Ltd. The late 70’s and 80’s were good years for Argus; the list based first at Golden Square in London’s Soho and subsequently in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire continued to expand, benefiting from the parent company’s acquisition of the The Amateur Winemaker magazine and associated homebrew and winemaking
book titles.

 

When Argus Press decided that newspapers rather than magazines were where its future lay, the company was sold to the Nexus Media group and for a brief period from 1995 to 2001, the books were published in Swanley, Kent under the Nexus Special Interests imprint. Nexus in turn made the decision that book publishing lay outside its core interests and in 2001 sold all of its book publishing interests to newly formed Special Interest Model Books Ltd.

Special Interest Model Books' sole interest is in book publishing with staff who have a long connection with the model hobby areas of publishing. The company was founded in Poole, Dorset by Chris Lloyd, who had been acting as the sales and marketing agent for Nexus books since 1993.

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