Saturday, February 22, 2025
Overcast and Damp
22° F / -6° C
A Return Visit to a
Great Meccano Resource
I haven't written a post for Mr. Tim Edwards in a long while. His website
titled MeccanoIndex is one of the most informative and resourceful websites
for anyone wanting to research or just visit. The site is about Meccano,
a famous British company that began in Liverpool, England in 1898.
The owner of the company was Mr. Frank Hornby. Meccano created
metal construction sets that could be assembled with small wrenches.
It came with nuts and bolts, assorted assembly parts,
and sometimes even small motors.
Tim Edward's website is literally an Internet library for anyone who wants to learn about Meccano. When I was young (pre-teen years), I had a set of Meccano, and it was great to be able to construct small items such as a house. There was a wide range of different sets with which one could erect something. The larger the
size of the set of parts, the larger or more elaborate the toy that could be created.
Some sets, if I remember correctly, even had small motors with which to
have a finished item move. An example could be a car or a Ferris Wheel.
Today's post is a sampling of Meccano magazines from 1925, a century from 100 years ago! The reason for selecting these magazines is that the artwork is appropriate to Meccano's erector sets. I always liked to draw, but my skills
were not that great. Looking at the artwork on these magazine covers makes me appreciate the talent that the artists had to draw these wonderful covers.
When you visit Timothy's website and find these magazines, you will be able to
read these magazines from 100 years ago. The amount of work that
Timothy has put into his website is truly a work of art and an exceptional effort
to have people learn all about these wonderful erector sets.
what Meccano was all about back then.
So that's it for today.
Thanks for dropping by to visit, and have a great part of the day or night,
wherever you may be,.
My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman, and I can always be reached at
toysearcher@gmail.com
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