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| '''Most of [[the Museum]]'s public [[Meccano]] collection is in or above the large Meccano cabinet in [[Arch Two]]'''. It's directly on your left as you enter the ticketed area of the Museum.
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| The centrepiece of the display is a large Meccano Block-Setting Crane, the largest official Meccano model. Around the rest of the cabinet are a selection of Meccano airplanes built with the Aeroplane Constructor outfits, and a range of Meccano parts, sets, motors, colour samples, boxes, and booklets, manuals and issues of Meccano Magazine.
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| Opposite the Meccano case is another cabinet of [[Metal Construction Sets (display)|metal construction sets]] from other manufacturers.
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| == History ==
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| '''Meccano Ltd.''' was established by [[Frank Hornby]] in 1908, as a means of manufacturing his previously patented invention, "[[Mechanics Made Easy]]"'. Meccano began to suffer financial difficulties in the 1960s and its journey from home-made British institution to the eventual sale of the brand in 1980 therefore offers something of a self-contained history of British manufacturing.
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| The word, "Meccano", was said to derive from the phrase "Make and Know", indicating Hornby's vision of educating children through play. However, if one was looking for a snappy word for a toy that taught mechanics, and was starting with the sound "meccan-", there were a limited number of simple variations available, and Meccano managed to become an internationally-recognised name without many people apparently knowing about any supposed deeper meaning to the word.
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| ==See also:==
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| * [[Meccano]]
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| [[Category:Arch Two]]
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| [[Category:Meccano]]
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| [[Category:Museum displays and cabinets]]
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