NORTH WEST MECCANO GUILD


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Meeting October 2025

About 20 members attended the meeting in the Leyland Community Hall on the 18th October 2025.

A good selection of models was on display and there was some Meccano for sale.

Most of them are shown below. Unfortunately, few were missed. The webmaster apologises for this.

A 1978 Set 5 Fork Lift Truck

By Brian Elvidge


Orrery

Built by Andrew Powall.

Neville Bond’s  Eiffel Tower.

This attractive model dates from about 1915 when Braced Girders were introduced.

It was used in about 1927 to illustrate the introduction of coloured parts.

These were in “Pea Green and Red” - lighter colours than later ones, The picture on the right is taken from the brochure issued to publicise  them. Only one sort of strip, the recently introduced Small Radius Curved Strip, was produced in green, all the others remained nickel-plated. However, some red parts were changed to the later greens.

Neville has fitted an auto-reversing mechanism.

A Tower Crane from Chris. Harris’s series of models featured on the instruction sheet supplied with Pocket Meccano.

They can be seen on: ( click to view)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fahpYoGSlIg



Inerter or J-Damper by Ted Harris.

A recent You-Tube video, which has had over a million viewers, described the invention of a device  for improving the stability  of Formula 1 racing cars. In it, Prof. Malcolm Smith, of Cambridge University, its inventor, showed the device which he made from Meccano to test the value of the device.

Two copies of it came to the meeting, one by Ted Harris and the other by the Web-master.In both, the MW compatible large tooth 6½” Rack Strips were replaced with standard ones. The method for guiding them is difficult to see in the video, so both examples used different ones.

Some parts, about 100 years old were used in these reconstructions.

The video can be seen at:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhmLb2DhNYM