Meccano magazine

[apprentice87]

Hi All,

This will be of interest to loads of you!!

: http://pdfmm.free.fr

It is free PDF's of "meccano" magazines from the 1920's and 30's.. up to the present day!!! Most interesting!!

john..

 

[Evans Electric]

Absolutely  wonderful  !!!!     I bet theres nothing equal to them these days .     I remember the  Bayco  building ones , , must have been blown away by Lego ,         and adverts for bicycles  ..all made in Brum   ...not anymore .

Kerch will be in his element when he sees these.  . 

 

[Geoff1946]

Brilliant find! I've got that website stored in my favourites for a bit of leisurely browsing. The adverts are as interesting as well as the articles, especially the early ones and immediate post war. 

 

[ruston]

Hi All,

This will be of interest to loads of you!!

: http://pdfmm.free.fr

It is free PDF's of "meccano" magazines from the 1920's and 30's.. up to the present day!!! Most interesting!!

john..

I just love that . Thank you very much.

 

[sprocketflup]

Absolutely  wonderful  !!!!     I bet theres nothing equal to them these days .     I remember the  Bayco  building ones , , must have been blown away by Lego ,         and adverts for bicycles  ..all made in Brum   ...not anymore .

Kerch will be in his element when he sees these.  . 

@Evans Electric Deke! Bayco....was that the stuff where you had lots of thin little metal rods that you inserted into a baseboard so they stood upright, and then slid small 'tiles' between them to make model buildings?

I vaguely remember seeing some at an uncles house as a small child, never seen the likes of it since. No-one else seems to remember it, except one guy I got talking to at a toy fair years ago, but I think he was on drugs

 

[Evans Electric]

I may be mis- remembering   but I  I thought Bayco was plastic blocks  much like Lego , not sure now . 

I remember the one with the metal rods  & tiles  , bit like miniature stud walls , I think that was the Meccano  one   ,also excellent .      Going to have good look through them later .  

 

[OnOff]

I may be mis- remembering   but I  I thought Bayco was plastic blocks  much like Lego , not sure now . 

Little white blocks that were similar to but didn't quite mate with Lego and more brittle I thought? A bit like HO/OO!

 

[Evans Electric]

Remembering now ,  stick the metal rods into the plastic base board  and slide the bricks down between them . 

 

[apprentice87]

Glad you all like them!! I only found the link to them by chance!!

john..

 

[sprocketflup]

Remembering now ,  stick the metal rods into the plastic base board  and slide the bricks down between them . 

But what was it called?

 

[Evans Electric]

I don't know . 

Yes I do  , just Googled it  .     Bayko  Building toys.    Forerunner to Carillion .    Made from Bakelite .  I'm sure I remember a Bakelite factory in Brum 

 

[Evans Electric]

Talking about D-Day  ... :wacko:       There was a toy factory in Brum  called Chad Valley  who were called upon  to create a huge scale model of the Normandy  coast landing  areas  for the MOD   .  Those who worked on it  were locked up until the landings had taken place .  

 

[kerching]

Anybody remember this one?........

https://www.brickplayer.co.uk/Photos

it even had real BLUE Blueprints!

i am sure some of these must be kicking around at my mothers particularly the Bayko 

 

[Geoff1946]

Bayko was definitely the one where thin steel wire uprights were set into a baseplate then the "bricks" slid in between them. I remember, even as a kid, thinking "It wouldn't half hurt to fall on those". I'm sure it wouldn't be considered a suitable toy these days.

 

[Evans Electric]

Anybody remember this one?........

https://www.brickplayer.co.uk/Photos

it even had real BLUE Blueprints!

i am sure some of these must be kicking around at my mothers particularly the Bayko 

No never saw this one ...looks good though . 

It wouldn't half hurt to fall on those". I'm sure it wouldn't be considered a suitable toy these days.

They'd never get it off the ground ....all those metal rods !!!   Ohh @elf 'n Safety  

 

[kerching]

I ran out of the special bricklayer cement on mine, very quickly.

the idea was that when finished and fed up,with what you had made you just soaked it in water and ll the bricks were re usable

i used flour and water as a substitute

it got very smelly after a few months

 

[Evans Electric]

I always wanted a Lego  and a train set but never got one .  

I found this poor quality picture of my bedroom desk  when aged around 11  . 

That big car is definitely a Vauxhall Velox ,    I think the smaller model car was a Cadilac .   Don't know what the US  jet fighter was  .  

Obviously a Lancaster bomber  at the front . 

 I remember the postcard  being  from a mate in  Rhyl  and the white card to the right was a code  device,    it had a movable disc  in the middle  which  would transpose  letters for  numbers    Your mate had to have the same device and kow the code for the day .   

I tried zooming in to see what the books were but it pixalates .  

I'd take a guess at  Just William , Famous Five ,  The Rilloby Fair Mystery , which was the Secret Seven I think ,  one of the paperbacks may be Bram Stoker's Dracula.  

I really wish I'd taken more pics now. 

 

[apprentice87]

What books did you have??

john..

 

[Evans Electric]

See my Edit  above  M8. 

 

[apprentice87]

What is the photo on the wall?? Looks like a load of army tanks or something??

john..