

The company was founded in 1935 in Birmingham in the British midlands by Geoffrey Malins. The name Mamod came from an amalgamtion of the title Malins Models, The first models produced were of stationary steam engines, the company later also creating models of road rollers, traction engines and steam cars. These models were aimed at the toy market, so were simple to operate and ran at low boiler pressures for safety but were not accurate scale models.