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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!
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Tag Archives: GMC
Hildred’s Shopping Centre, Skegness
First pictures arrived this morning via Drop Box of the Skegness display of Meccano models that I provided for Meccano UK’s advertising agency, currently filling a vacant shop window in the Hildred’s Centre. Thanks to Red Brick for these! Looking … Continue reading
Posted in North Midlands Meccano Guild, Space, Trucks
Tagged Atlas, Eagle, GMC, Hildred's, Kenworth, launch pad, Meccano, Peterbilt, Red Brick, rocket, Skegex, Skegness, Space 1999, transporter
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Smile, please!
Last Saturday was the spring meeting of the North Midlands Meccano Guild, so I made the familiar journey over to Oxton with a couple of models. As my homage to “Convoy” continues to grow, this time I took my GMC … Continue reading
Posted in North Midlands Meccano Guild, Trucks
Tagged Convoy, GMC, Jesus, Meccano, microbus, Minibus, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Beetle, Volkswagen Type 2
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“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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A Truck Gear Box
There’s another truck on its way … A GMC (or a “Jimmy” in old trucker slang) since you ask. But you can’t keep building trucks without putting at least some of the transmission system in them! In addition to suspension, … Continue reading
Posted in Trucks, Workbench
Tagged 6-speed, automotive, gearbox, GMC, Mecccano, Transmission (mechanics)
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