Category:Meccano Construction Sets (display)
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Meccano gears [image info]
Most of the Museum's public Meccano collection is in or around the large Meccano cabinet in Arch Two, which was extensively upgraded and expanded in January/February 2016 to mark the museum's 25th anniversary. It's directly on your left as you enter the ticketed area of the Museum.
The centrepiece of the display is a large Meccano Block-Setting Crane, the largest official Meccano model, standing on a Meccano parts dealer's cabinet. Around this are Meccano sets and upgrade sets, accessory outfits, and loose parts, including most of the very rarest and hard-to-find pieces.
Due to this sudden influx of new exhibits, it'll take us some time to bring the online listings up to date – the new piece include 1920s/1930s items such as the Meccano sawbench, 1929 and 1935 steam engines, a Mechanics Made Easy pulleywheel from ~1906, Meccano X Series and British Model Builder sets, Motor Car Constructor pieces, and representatives of the company's auxiliary products such as Dinky Builder, the Kemex chemistry sets and Elektron electricity sets, and the Elektrikit electrical Meccano parts.
Opposite the Meccano case is another cabinet of metal construction sets from other manufacturers.
History
Frank Hornby patented the basic idea of Meccano in 1901, and by 1908 the product had a proper name, a limited company making it (Meccano Ltd.), and a factory site. Although numerous copycat products appeared, Meccano Ltd considered their system to be the original and best, and with a range of ten sets, upgrade packs available that could take owners from one set to the next, a network of clubs (the Meccano Guild), and a wide range of published designs partly gleaned from Meccano model design competitions, it was difficult for other metal construction toys to compete.
For specialist models such as planes and cars, Meccano Ltd. also produced special Motor Car Constructor and Aeroplane Constructor outfits that had custom parts (but still used the same hole spacing and hole size as normal Meccano). The company also briefly flirted with the idea of "Meccano-style" gauge 0 locomotives and rolling stock using special parts, but quickly decided to switch to more conventional factory-built toy trains, marketed under the separate Hornby Series name.
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Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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- Pocket Meccano (2 F)
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Pages in category ‘Meccano Construction Sets (display)’
The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
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- Meccano Accessory Outfit 00A
- Meccano Accessory Outfit 3a
- Meccano Aeroplane Constructor Outfit (No2 Special)
- Meccano Clockwork Motor
- Meccano Clockwork Motor No1
- Meccano Clockwork Motor No1A
- Meccano Clockwork Motor No2, black, 1912 (Märklin for Meccano Ltd)
- Meccano Clockwork Motor No2, silver, 1912 (Märklin for Meccano Ltd)
- Meccano Electric Motor E020
- Meccano Electric Motor E20R(S)
- Meccano Electrical Outfit
- Meccano Gears Set
- Meccano Giant Block-Setting Crane (Meccano Super Models No 4)
- Meccano Highway Vehicles Set (Set 3)
- Meccano miniature model steamroller
- Meccano Motor Car Constructor Outfit No1
- Meccano Parts and How to Use Them (Meccano Ltd)
- Meccano Parts, Dealers Cabinet
- Meccano Saw Bench
- Meccano Set (unidentified)
- Meccano Set No 10
- Meccano Shafting Standards display
- Meccano six-speed electric motor 228
- Meccano Standard Mechanisms (Meccano Ltd)
- Meccano Standard Mechanisms, US edition (Meccano Ltd)
- Meccano Steam Engine (Mamod for Meccano)
- Meccano Steam Engine, 1929 (Meccano Ltd)
- Meccano Steam Engine, 1935 (Meccano Ltd)
- Meccano steamroller, blue and gold
- Meccano Upright Steam Engine, 1914 (Bing for Meccano Ltd)
- Meccano windmill (retailer promotional model)
- Mechanics Made Easy, Outfit 1A (Elliott and Hornby)
- Mechanics Made Easy, set (Elliott and Hornby)
- Mechanics Made Easy, Set B (Elliott and Hornby)
- Mobile Anti-Aircraft Gun (Meccano Mechanised Army)
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Media in category ‘Meccano Construction Sets (display)’
The following 16 files are in this category, out of 16 total.
- Area 04.jpg 800 × 800; 488 KB
- Biplane, Meccano X Series.jpg 4,000 × 2,676; 1.95 MB
- Green clockwork Tourer (Meccano Motor Car Constructor 2).jpg 3,000 × 1,200; 430 KB
- Meccano Clockwork Motor No1 (1935 BHTMP).jpg 529 × 499; 38 KB
- Meccano Construction Sets display, detail 01.jpg 2,000 × 1,334; 1.71 MB
- Meccano Construction Sets display, detail 02.jpg 1,200 × 800; 796 KB
- Meccano display contents, 2016.jpg 2,000 × 1,057; 1.51 MB
- Meccano Display, 2016.jpg 2,000 × 1,334; 1.62 MB
- Meccano gears and accessory parts.jpg 1,200 × 800; 439 KB
- Meccano Giant Block-Setting Crane, detail01.jpg 1,024 × 768; 427 KB
- Meccano Giant Block-Setting Crane, detail02.jpg 1,024 × 768; 467 KB
- Meccano Motor Car, box end.jpg 2,200 × 1,795; 746 KB
- Meccano No2 Special Aeroplane Outfit (1939 catalogue).jpg 761 × 1,209; 158 KB
- Meccano Steam Engine (MBoM234 1970).jpg 2,000 × 1,489; 1.03 MB
- Meccano steamroller, blue and gold.jpg 2,000 × 1,334; 1.61 MB
- Mechanics Made Easy, pre-Meccano pulley.jpg 2,160 × 1,620; 1.6 MB