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Waddington's were founded in the nineteenth century by John Waddington and Wilson Barratt as John
Waddington Ltd. The original Mr. John Waddington resigned in 1913.
Tom Tyler, in his
British Jigsaw Puzzles of the Twentieth Century, says, "...in the 1920's, an American
company in Long Island, New York, developed a method of making jigsaw puzzles from cardboard
which cut production costs to a twentieth and increased the popularity of the puzzle. In the
summer of 1933 Waddington's bought the 'know how' and one or two machines from America and
began manufacturing cardboard jigsaw puzzles..."
Waddington first developed circular puzzles.
They later helped Springbok, which apparently used Waddington's prints for
circular puzzles, at first.
Waddington puzzles are among the finest in the world.
En su libro, Jigsaw puzzles británicos del
siglo XX [en inglés], Tom Tyler dice, «...en los años 1920-1929, una compañía norteamericana
en La Isla Larga, Nueva York, perfeccionó una técnica producir puzzles de cartón que redujo gastos
de producción a un vigésimo, y por eso aumentaba la popularidad del puzzle.
En el verano de 1933
Waddington compró conocimiento práctico y una o dos máquinas desde los EEUU, y comenzó producir
puzzles de cartón...»
Los puzzles de Waddington son entre los puzzles mas excelentes en el
mundo. |
"Alice in Wonderland"
" The Circus Comes to Town " 
"Stately Homes of Britain"
"York Castle Museum"
"World Cities"
" Express Trains ", no. 518 [1965?]
