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An '''early (1929-type) Meccano steam engine''', with blue pierced angled base, red and gold "Meccano Ltd. Liverpool" sticker, and copper-coloured boiler with "MECCANO" lettering.
An '''early (1929-type) Meccano steam engine''', with blue pierced angled base, red and gold "Meccano Ltd. Liverpool" sticker, and copper-coloured boiler with "MECCANO" lettering.


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This would seem to be an even rarer variant of '''[[Meccano Steam Engine, 1929 (Meccano Ltd)|the "standard" 1929-type Meccano Steam Engine]]''' – it has a different type of filler cap, and the Meccano name is a transfer rather than embossed lettering.
This would seem to be an even rarer variant of '''[[Meccano Steam Engine, 1929 (Meccano Ltd)|the "standard" 1929-type Meccano Steam Engine]]''' – it has a different type of filler cap, and the Meccano name is a transfer rather than embossed lettering.


This is slightly odd ... although it seems contemporary with the other engine, it's not clear why, having created the tooling to emboss the MECCANO" name onto copper plate for the engines, and having featured the embossing in their advertising illustrations, Meccano Ltd would then produce any engines without it. Possible explanations might be that it was one of an early batch of prototypes, part of a batch produced in error without the embossing, part of a special batch produced that could be sold under another company name, or part of a late batch produced after some of the tooling had already been scrapped.
The engine appears in a 1935 advert without the embossing, so perhaps the company decided to skip the embossing stage to make production cheaper, or perhaps the original embossing machine tool wore out and wasn't replaced, or perhaps the company subcontracted some of the boilerwork to an outside company – we don't know.
 
Whatever the reason, this is the only example of this version that we've come across.


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Revision as of 23:27, 31 January 2016

Exhibit

Meccano Steam Engine, 1935 (Meccano Ltd)

The Meccano Steam Engine (MM 1935-01).jpg (i)
BTMM map 004.gif
location:

Arch Two , Area 4
Meccano Construction Sets (display)


1934: Meccano Steam Engine advertising image

1934: Meccano Steam Engine advertising image [image info]

1935 advert: "The Meccano Steam Engine", photographed engine without embossing

1935 advert: "The Meccano Steam Engine", photographed engine without embossing [image info]

An early (1929-type) Meccano steam engine, with blue pierced angled base, red and gold "Meccano Ltd. Liverpool" sticker, and copper-coloured boiler with "MECCANO" lettering.

Rarity

This would seem to be an even rarer variant of the "standard" 1929-type Meccano Steam Engine – it has a different type of filler cap, and the Meccano name is a transfer rather than embossed lettering.

The engine appears in a 1935 advert without the embossing, so perhaps the company decided to skip the embossing stage to make production cheaper, or perhaps the original embossing machine tool wore out and wasn't replaced, or perhaps the company subcontracted some of the boilerwork to an outside company – we don't know.

Whatever the reason, this is the only example of this version that we've come across.

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