The Superquick Model range was launched in 1960 by Donovan Lloyd, who was born in 1914, trained as an artist and illustrator in the late 1930s and died in 2009.
In Great Britain in 1960 this special printing and the practices of printing on fine paper, mounting the paper on card and die-cutting the result (to save the modeller from cutting the components himself) gave Superquick a great advantage over other makers of card kits; the other ranges from that time are selling at low volumes or now extinct.
Many modellers have considerable fondness for the kits, because in the period 1960 to 1995 they were the obvious choice for the first buildings on their layout.
The only kit to be discontinued and not replaced was C3 "Low Relief Modern Shops & Flat" which made its last appearance in the 1985 catalogue .
Reflecting family generational succession, the ownership moved in June 2016 to the firm Brickwall Works Ltd.
There has been criticism that the kits issued after the change of ownership in 1992 included buildings that really were not suitable for the majority of model railways, which were based on the branch lines.
Superquick gained some exposure from the title sequence of the UK TV Series "Homes under the hammer"[4] where all 13 series ran a sequence showing a selection of the vernacular Superquick buildings, with some minor changes to add chimneys covered with UK currency.
[citation needed] The Railway Terminus Building appears at the start of Landscapes music video ‘Einsteins a go go’.