This set includes enough new colored parts that will enable you to build
20 different mechanical models (1 at a time) that really move. These
all-new, all-moving models include a dragster, helicopter and a lawn
mower.
This set includes enough new colored parts that will enable you to build 20 different mechanical models (1 at a time) that really move. These all-new, all-moving models include a dragster, helicopter and a lawn mower.
This complete system comes with everything you need, including detailed instructions, gearbox, 3V motor (requires 2 AA batteries not included), screwdriver and wrench.
For ages 8 and up.
Product Notes
Includes: 261 Pieces
All Meccano parts are compatible with each other. Meccano is a recognized educative system. Batteries not included.
Additional Information
Meccano® is a metal construction toy, using perforated metal shapes, nuts and bolts to assemble all sorts of things. Erector® is a similar system which is much better known in the United States. Meccano was invented by Frank Hornby in England in 1901, and spread throughout the world. It was imported into the US by 1909, and a US Meccano Company was formed in 1913. (Erector was invented in the US by A. C. Gilbert in 1912.) A factory to manufacture Meccano was established in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1922. Around 1928 or 1929, the US Meccano Company was purchased by A. C. Gilbert. The Meccano factory was closed about 1930, and production moved to the Erector factory in New Haven, Connecticut. Meccano sets continued in production for a few years, and the name was used on a number of other toys, such as microscopes. The construction sets were made in the US as late as 1938.
