Category: Special Features

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/clarke_sm.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579439241550{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]On Tuesday, November 29, 2000 the CBC Radio-1 program, “Writers and Company”, Eleanor Wachtel interviewed A.C. Clarke, (author of “2001, A Space Odessy”, etc.). About 11 minutes into the interview, he made about a minute’s worth of comments about his pleasure as a boy with Meccano, lamenting…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/rocket.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][mk_button dimension=”flat” corner_style=”full_rounded” size=”large” url=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/canadian_meccanotes_200009.pdf” target=”_blank” align=”center” fullwidth=”true” btn_hover_bg=”#b0161c” text_color=”dark” btn_hover_txt_color=”#ffffff”]MeccaNotes PDF[/mk_button][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579438369414{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Correction: September 2000 “Canadian MeccaNotes” page 10, 2nd column, 2nd paragraph – “Across the two 3-in. strips, mentioned above, a 7in. rod carries the valve mechanism.” should read “Across the two 3-hole strips, mentioned above, a…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/merry02.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579438230834{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]These model photos were supplied by Jerry DuBois of Vanier, Ontario, Canada. The article accompanying these model photographs is in the September 2000 issue of “Canadian MeccaNotes”.[/vc_column_text][vc_masonry_media_grid element_width=”3″ grid_id=”vc_gid:1579438181947-b3af59d7-fbba-6″ include=”874,875,876,877,878,879,880,881,882,883,884″][/vc_column][/vc_row]

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/chassis_overall02.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][mk_button dimension=”flat” corner_style=”full_rounded” size=”large” url=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/index.php/portfolio-posts/autmotive-chassis-remake/” target=”_blank” align=”center” fullwidth=”true” btn_hover_bg=”#b0161c” text_color=”dark” btn_hover_txt_color=”#ffffff”]Image Gallery[/mk_button][mk_button dimension=”flat” corner_style=”full_rounded” size=”large” url=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/automotive_chassis_jpg.zip” target=”_blank” align=”center” fullwidth=”true” btn_hover_bg=”#b0161c” text_color=”dark” btn_hover_txt_color=”#ffffff”]Download All Images[/mk_button][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579436400900{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Editor’s Note: This remake of the 1950’s “Sports Motor Car” Chassis (Meccano Leaflet No. 2) was constructed by George Soodt of Illinois, USA. It…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/rad_figure1.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579437107066{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]In 1997, the idea for an amazing Meccano character for the cast of Key to Imagination© was born. The Head of Research And Development would live on Starshine’s home planet, Etheria. After numerous sketches of the idea, RAD was born into the laboratory of Logandy, musical scientist,…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/millenium01.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579437854078{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]MECCANO TOYS LTD. PRESS RELEASE The final of the Meccano design competition at The Science Museum 1 The story so far: JAN 1999: 10,000 Primary schools were challenged to create the design for ‘a vehicle of the future’, by 2 April 1999. APRIL 1999: >2,500 Children aged…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/graba.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579434567269{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]From the front cover of September 1998 MeccaNotes and the challenge to design a single suspension crane grab based on the Triang type. Train & Toy Show in Ottawa: Although Normand’s design requires only one cable, that forms a loop around a brake drum back to the…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/1998/09/e15r.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579435160446{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]These are illustrations of Norm LaCroix’s design for a replacement E15R type motor (maybe it should be called a modernized, improved E15R motor?). Anyway, the core consists of an excellent 3-24VDC motor with a shaft 3/4″ long and .157″ diameter, but the beauty of this small motor…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/eleca.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579435635753{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]These photos of the 1920 Meccano Electrical Outfit were supplied by Norm LaCroix.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][mk_page_section][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/elecd.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/elecd.jpg” target=”_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/elecc.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/elecc.jpg” target=”_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/elecb.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/elecb.jpg” target=”_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/eleca.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/eleca.jpg” target=”_blank”][/vc_column][/mk_page_section]

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/argentineb.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1579435446319{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]These Exacto set photos were supplied by Norm LaCroix. This set is from 1976, before the Falkland problems caused Meccano to stop Argentina from labelling their EXACTO as Meccano.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][mk_page_section][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/argentine.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/argentine.jpg” target=”_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][mk_image src=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/argentineb.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”http://staging.cmamas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/argentineb.jpg” target=”_blank”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/mk_page_section]