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These pages bring together all sorts of notes and articles from my years with Meccano - I hope you may find something interesting among them! Some have appeared in one or more of our Club Magazines, while others are just passing comments, ideas, reactions and discoveries.
Here for once I am free from the constraints of page size, publication schedules and even mechanical correctness!
If you share this peculiar passion of ours, feel free to browse, and even comment if you wish.Blog Stats
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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Not all roads lead to Laughton ….
well, not this time! There were a couple of other club meetings on which took some folk away, we hear of (sadly) some old friends who weren’t too well, and the Highways Department were doing their best to stop devotees … Continue reading
Posted in Cranes, Sheffield Meccano Guild, Trucks
Tagged Laughton, Meccano, Sheffield, SMG
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Meccano for the big boys
A giant “Meccano-style” footbridge in Greater Manchester was officially opened today – 6th April 2014, with various activities celebrating the event including an exhibition of models made by the North West Meccano Guild in a nearby marquee . The £90,000 … Continue reading
“We just ain’t a-gonna pay no toll…”
So goes the line in the old song “Convoy” by the fictional C.W. McCall. Well, there was certainly a GMC in that convoy of trucks, (driven by “Pig-Pen“, haulin’ hogs) but possibly the driver didn’t look as cheerful as the … Continue reading
Posted in Trucks
Tagged C. W. McCall, Convoy, Erector Set, GMC, Meccano, Pig-Pen, Stokys, Truck
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