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    • Gallery C >
      • World War I Bomber
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    • Gallery D >
      • Tank
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      • Building Crane
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    • Gallery G >
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      • Large Steam Engine
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Here are some interesting Plastic Meccano related links;

www.meccano.com
This is the official site of Meccano today showing the modern product range.

www.meccanoindex.co.uk/Misc/partslist.php
Tim Edwards provides a very informative Excel spreadsheet detailing as far as is known the contents of all the Plastic Meccano sets manufactured between 1965 until 1993.

www.nzmeccano.com/image-55574&frompage=2
This page of the NZ Meccano site shows a clock built by Noel Ta'Bois back in the 1980's. A truly remarkable achievement I think.

www.nzmeccano.com/image-47677
Again at NZ Meccano this is a picture from 1987 of a very impressive Plastic Meccano crane. The builder is not credited but I'm told that it may be the work of Alan Partridge.

www.nzmeccano.com/image-71195
Harry Harker is creating memorable Plastic Models in the UK


www.northwestmeccano.co.uk/page21.html
In the category of "I wish I'd built that" I found  an excellent model of a steam locomotive, attributed to Roger Marsh, at the UK's North West Meccano Guild site .
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