NORTH WEST MECCANO GUILD
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News Late 2025
Bury Transport Museum. 23rd. & 24th. August.
The guild was invited to exhibit for two days at the museum. About 14 tables of models were set up among the permanent exhibits. Pictures of most of the them are shown below. Unfortunately some were missed. A good number of visitors attended.
The Plastic Meccano Workshop was quite busy on both days. Pictures of the models that were constructed are at the bottom of the page.
Chris Harris’s Cargo Ship.
This is Model No. 10.4 in the post war collection of leaflets provided with the No. 10 Set. It is nearly 7’ 6” (2.29m). Chris. has altered it so that it can be split into two halves for transport.
The parts list on the leaflets says that all the nuts and bolts in a No. 10 are needed which suggests that Chris. actually needed considerably more.
Jon Hall’s Model of the High Pressure 4-
This experimental locomotive was designed Nigel Gresley with the assistance of the
Yarrow boiler company in 1929. It used high pressure steam (at 450 psi) in a Yarrow
boiler similar to that used in ocean liners and naval vessels. It had 4 cylinders,
two high pressure and two low. A Yarrow boiler is roughly triangular in shape and
had to fitted above the driving wheels. This meant the top was close to the loading
gauge. The chimney is hidden the shrouds intended to lift the smoke clear of the
driver’s view. It proved able to perform the duties required of it -
Several models of this locomotive have built, two as entries to MM competitions and one, with full instructions in three 1935 Meccano Magazines. Instructions for ones similar to Jon’s are published by MW Mail Order, the original MM one as PSM/TL and a later one, designed by Ted Summerfield as MP127. It is not known to what extent Jon used this as a basis for his model.
In front of the tender is an M38 Nut and Bolt left over from the construction of the Giant Meccano Bridge at Nob End.
Stuart Field’s Model of the Barton Swing Aqueduct.
Stuart’s Models of boats which travelled over and under the aqueduct.
They are a narrow boat and a tug.
The Locomotion.
This is model of the first Stockton and Darlington locomotive.It was built to Frank Beadle’s MM design by the late Roger Marsh. It was donated to the guild in Roger’s will and acquired by Derrick Murdie.
He has corrected a serious error in the original design and made other alterations to get it work properly. This enabled him to dispense with the complicated drive mechanism of the original design.
Above is one of Mark Rolston’s American Articulated Trucks.
The rear wheels are clear of the ground so that gearbox can be demonstrated.
On the left is his Dumper Truck.
It could be driven onto the truck.
On the left is Derrick Murdie’s Ball Roller and behind it his model of Liver Bird model in oversize modern Meccano on the site of the old Binns Road Meccano Factory, built out of standard Meccano.
Above are the Webmaster’s “Triddles” -
The Webmaster’s Plastic Meccano Models.
From left to right are the Meccanograph from the set 400 manual, a beam engine with working Watt’s Parallel motion and a simple Horizontal Steam engine. The purple curved strip is a part designed by the Webmaster and 3D printed by Eric Wright.
Neville Bond’s Union Pacific Diesel-
The Plastic Meccano Workshop.
This was quite busy on both days. 13 models were built on Saturday and 10 on Sunday. Unfortunately, there was no time to take pictures of all the more ambitious individual models. This was near the model railway and occupied 3 or 4 more tables.
Models made on Saturday.
From left to right, they are:
A Pick-
A Car Transporter by William aged 8
A Car by Qasim aged 35.
More Models made on Saturday.
The level crossing gate was by an unknown modeller.
Some of the Models made on Sunday.
More models made on Sunday.
The Ladder was made by Harlow aged 8 who also made the crane with the assistance of Tom.
