A Return Visit to a Great Meccano Resource

Saturday, February 22, 2025

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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.

Please click on this sentence to redirect to Mr.Tim Edward's exceptional website

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.

I hope you visit this site, because it's fantastic. You'lllearn a lot about The Meccano company, and you'll enjoy seeing so much information and photos that illustrate

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

Meccano Index©. Timothy Edwards

Saturday, February 24, 2024

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I already introduced you (the reader)in my last blog post, to Mr. Timothy Edwards, whom I discovered weeks ago on the Net. Timothy has created one of the best and most exhaustive and and researched blogs on the Internet about the Meccano Company. For anyone wanting to know about the Meccano company, this is definitely the website to visit!

Please click here (on this line) to visit this wonderful website

For those who don't know about Meccano, this great company was created by Mr. Frank Hornby in 1907 (but marketed in 1901 as Mechanics Made Easy). Meccano came in sets of metal pieces with parts and nuts and bolts in green and red boxes. Instructions came with the set, and children (myself included in the 1950's), would assemble whatever design  or item came with the instructions. The larger the set of parts, the larger the finished toy would be.  Additional sets could be purchased for children who wanted to make larger versions of a toy that they had in mind. As an example, a finished 10" (25.4 cm) airplane could become a 20" (50.8 cm) airplane with the combination of 2-3 kits. Of course, most Meccano enthusiasts would graduate to larger-sized kits that were more complicated and sophisticated. These advanced kits could even have the model-maker order small motors to run their finished model. Examples such as a Ferris wheel, an airplane, or car were  quite common at the time.

I selected the topic below, to illustrate the extensive research and effort that Timothy Edwards has invested in his website. He has created one of the best websites I've ever seen, with regard to a specific toy manufacturer.

As an aside, is there an award site on the Internet 

for the best website in different categories?

      

    Tim's website is exceptional in terms of content, photos, and written information. I've barely touched the surface of this great resource, and I hope, you, my readers will venture over to this website.

So that's it for today, and as always, thanks for dropping by, 

and have a great  day or night, wherever you may be.

My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman, and I can always be reached at:

toysearcher@gmail.com