Category:Meccano Super Models

1930 "Meccano Super Models" advert [image info]

Front cover of the leaflet/manual for Meccano Super Models No.4 - Giant Block-setting Crane [image info]

Meccano Super Models were a range of impressively large model designs that were supplied separately by Meccano from the usual kits, for the more ambitious builder.

Range

By 1930, there were thirty-six different sets of Super Model plans:

• No.1 MOTOR CHASSIS
• No.2 SHIP COALER
• No.3 MOTOR-CYCLE AND SIDE-CAR
• No.4 GIANT BLOCK-SETTING CRANE
• No.5 TRAVELLING BUCKET DREDGER
• No.6 STIFF-LEG DERRICK
• No.7 PLATFORM SCALES
• No.8 ROUNDABOUT
• No.9 BAGATELLE TABLE
• No.10 LOG SAW
• No.11 SINGLE-CYLINDER HORIZONTAL STEAM ENGINE
• No.12 STONE-SAWING MACHINE
• No.13 MECCANOGRAPH
• No.14 GRANDFATHER CLOCK
• No.15 BALTIC TANK LOCOMOTIVE
• No.16 LOOM
• No.17 PLANING MACHINE
• No.18 REVOLVING CRANE
• No.19 STEAM SHOVEL
• No.19a STEAM EXCAVATOR, OR MECHANICAL DIGGER
• No.20 MOBILE CRANE
• No.21 TRANSPORTER BRIDGE
• No.22 TRACTION ENGINE
• No.23 VERTICAL LOG SAW
• No.24 TRAVELLING GANTRY
• No.25 HYDRAULIC CRANE
• No.26 TWIN EPILIPTIC HARMONOGRAPH
• No.27 DRAGLINE
• No.28 PONTOON CRANE
• No.29 HAMMERHEAD CRANE
• No.30 BREAKDOWN CRANE
• No.31 WAREHOUSE WITH ELEVATORS
• No.32 TWIN CYLINDER STEAM ENGINE AND BOILER
• No.33 SINGLE AND DOUBLE FLYBOATS
• No.34 THREE-ENGINE BIPLANE
• No.36 ELECTRIC DERRICK CRANE (Scotch type)