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A women visitor in her late 60s clearly
remembered
building
a similar model in the late 1930s. She told me the set was still
in
her loft and it was her favourite toy as a child. I did not try to
persuade to
part with it but encouraged her to get it out to show her Grandchildren. |
This model is based on a combination of the Tipping Motor
Wagon and the Motor
Breakdown Crane both from the 1930 Outfit No.4 - 7 manual. . This model
was
built using the parts available in the1930 No.4 set, this was before the introduction of flexible plates introduced in 1934. I liked
features of
both
the models, and the aim was to build a typical model of that
period.
The model was for a Meccano display I was putting on at a vintage
rally
held at the Museum of Power at Langford, near Maldon Essex in April 2003.
Although
the model is simple it has leaf springs at the front, Ackerman steering
and
a working crane winch. 