Meccano Model
Most us played with Meccano when we were young, but this note and pics from England show some of what you really can do with Meccano!
Hi Alan
I would like to submit some photographs of my recent construction of an Meccano model representation of AD60 no. 6029 in 2.5ins gauge. The mid red and mid green is correct for Binns road, Liverpool, Lancs.Meccano of the period 1946 -1956/57 and entirely appropriate to the early fifties AD60 heavy freight batch articulated locomotives construction period in my native Lancashire at the Beyer Peacock works in West Gorton Manchester.
I offer it as encouragement to the volunteer team engaged on the project to have her in working condition by 2014 for the New South Wales Railway Centenary celebrations.
Best of luck meanwhile with the project
Best regards
Tom Martland
Tom adds in a follow-up mail that the model is driven by a motor in the coal bunker space, and the driving wheels have a coupled braking arrangement...
Feb 7, 2009
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