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On the 10th. Aug. 8 members visited Sale Library for the \u201cMarvellous Makers Meccano \u201c event, part of the Summer Reading Challenge. Veronica ran the Plastic Meccano Hands-On Workshop. It was very busy – about 43 models were built including many of the makers own design. Because we were very busy, not many photographs were taken. Some appear below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Wright brought his 3D printer, which has been used to make Meccano parts. It attracted a lot of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stuart Field\u2019s model of the Barton Swing Aqueduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also brought models of a Tug Boat to go under it and a Narrow boat to go over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tug Boat is shown below as well as some of the models made by the Nightingales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Plastic Meccano Models.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below is a general view of most of the models constructed at the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the right is a picture showing some of the more interesting ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bury Transport Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were able to return to this museum, which we have visited several times in the past. Only a small number of members were able to attend, so that our exhibition was on the ground level of the former goods shed. This meant that the permanent exhibits formed a background to our photographs of our models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Above is Stuart Field with his model of the Barton Swing Aqueduct with a narrow boat in front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above right are two of John Nuttall\u2019s models – a No. 6 Set Articulated lorry and an Oil Tanker,from the Dec. 1956 Meccano Magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of the tanker is Mark Rolston with some of his detailed models of earth moving equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are the Webmaster\u2019s models including a Patentee Locomotive constructed mainly from M\u00e4rklin parts based on their Der Adler instructions, a Constructo Hand Generator driving a 1920s Meccano Stamping Mill and the Plastic Meccano Meccanograph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind is a narrow gauge locomotive used the move materials about in the Horwich Works of the L & Y Railway – the former owners of the Goods Shed,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the 10th. Aug. 8 members visited Sale Library for the \u201cMarvellous Makers Meccano \u201c event, part of the Summer Reading Challenge. Veronica ran the Plastic Meccano Hands-On Workshop. It was very busy – about 43 models were built including many of the makers own design. Because we were very busy, not many photographs were taken. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwmg.edmundwatson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwmg.edmundwatson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwmg.edmundwatson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwmg.edmundwatson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwmg.edmundwatson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nwmg.edmundwatson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/nwmg.edmundwatson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwmg.edmundwatson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwmg.edmundwatson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwmg.edmundwatson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}