Malcolm Root - Vintage Transport

In the 'Green Box Era', Wentworth made many jigsaws from the paintings of Malcolm Root. Malcolm was a favourite of Wentworth's consultant Tom Tyler (who also provided the text for the heritage art books Malcolm published).
See also Malcolm's Wentworth Millenium 4x250pc Series and Millenium Set.

There are no Malcolm Root images in the earliest catalogues we have (1994 & 1997-8). The Wentworth Whimsy Club launched in May 1998, and the first of Malcolm's jigsaws we know of appeared in Whimsy no2 in Sept 1998, and in no5 in 1999 (when the artist was described as 'always popular'). At this point Wentworth sizes were 140pc, 250pc & 425pc (plus tiny ones).

A cream loose-leaf catalogue with four titles 'Transport Collection' is marked as 1999 and shows thumbnails of codes 219-223.
The spring 2000 loose leaf album has three pages of Malcolm's work, with 16 titles. These included general transport street scenes, railway engines and two ships. Later jigsaws included agricultural engines and vehicles, and even planes.

Click on individual jigsaw albums or explore snapshots of the many 'series' in the literature album, with extracts from Wentworth catalogues or Whimsy Magazines.