Meccano - Miscellaneous Links

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See also Meccano Newsletters & Associations for Meccano newsletter, association, club and guild websites.

See also Meccano Sources for Meccano dealer websites.

This web page lists miscellaneous sites that don't fit in the above categories.

Meccano Instruction Booklets, Magazines and Brochures

All Meccano Magazines are now available free on the Internet: http://www.nzmeccano.com/MMviewer.php .
There's a big pile of Meccano instruction booklets at
http://www.nzmeccano.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=4767 .
There's a wide variety of French and English model plans at http://sizygie.free.fr/manuals/ .
More French instruction bookets are available at the bottom of http://meccrl.free.fr and all Meccano magazines here: http://pdfmm.free.fr/ .
There's a variety of Meccano Magazines at http://www.finneys.me.uk/meccano/mmscans/ .
There's even more Meccano set manuals at http://www.aburkitt.net/cgi-bin/display_scan .

Miscelaneous Websites

Meccano France has their website at http://www.meccano.com/ .
Wes Dalefield has prepared "Wes Dalefield's Home Page" at http://www.dalefield.com/mwes/ .
Chris Bourne has prepared "The Meccano Model Library" at http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/dms/meccano/ with a professionally prepared collection of model plans. Your contributions are welcome!
Kendrick Bisset has prepared his "Meccano in the United States" web pages: http://www.usmeccano.com
The late Gordon Frank's "Farming for Meccano" website is here: http://www.angelfire.com/art/meccano/ .
Timothy Edwards' Meccano web pages are at http://edwards.web.users.btopenworld.com/meccano/meccano.htm .
Kees Trommel of the Dutch Meccano Guild has set up his "Kees Trommel Home Page" at http://www.keestrommel.nl/ with Meccano photos.
Ashok K. Banerjee has prepared "Ashok's Meccano Home Page" at http://members.tripod.com/Ashok_Banerjee/Meccanoville/Welcome.htm .
Dr. Paul Dale (Austrailia) has some nice model photos on "Pauli's Meccano Page" at http://www.dalefield.com/pauli/ .
Here's a website about Meccano restoration. http://www.mecworld.co.za/cmrp/
See Guy Pouchet's website for pictures of a CAM France exhibition. http://pouchi.perso.neuf.fr
Cyril Carrez's Meccano homepage shows off his set 10 Cargo Boat among other models. He also has some manual model scans available. http://sizygie.free.fr
See Remi Lanne's website for more Meccano pictures from France as well as French manuals. http://meccrl.free.fr
Some French fellows have an interesting offbeat display at http://jack.riff.free.fr/meccano.htm
Russell Brown's home page has Meccano Constructor Cars. http://www.btinternet.com/~russbrown/mc/
Dieter Mueller of Germany website is mostly in German: http://www.schraube-und-mutter.de .
Johan van Dam's Meccano pages show many newer Meccano sets at http://www.vdam.com .
Jeff Duntemann (U.S.A.) has prepared the "The Metal Construction Set FAQ" at http://www.arrickrobotics.com/erector.txt - it is oriented towards robotics enthusiasts rather than collectors.
Tim Surtell (U.K.) has the "Electronics in Meccano On-Line" website http://www.eleinmec.com
Alan Esplen's Meccano pages are at http://www.btinternet.com/~a.esplen/mecc.htm
Anthony Els's website is all about using ProDesktop to design & illustrate Meccano models using computer software. Unfortunately, the free client is no longer available. http://www.mecworld.co.za/ant/ .
Roger Hill (U.K.) has the "IsoMec Home Page" at http://www.btinternet.com/~foxgrove/isomec/isomec.htm all about computer software for drawing Meccano mechanisms. This software runs under Corel-Draw. Some of the drawings produced by this software are amazing and of excellent quality. For example, a motor car chassis model plan, produced by Roger himself, is all illustrated with drawings from this software.
Cisar Manuel Bermzdez Gsmez has produced sets of Meccano symbols for 3D Studio. See his Spanish web pages "Enlaces al Mundo 3D" "Mis Trabajos" at http://www.radiolyrics.net/otros3dsr/ .
Joe Grobmyer (U.S.A.) maintains the "A.C. Gilbert Heritage Society" site at http://www.acghs.org which discusses Erector. There are some nice photos of Erector models.
Staffan Kjellin (Sweden) has some web pages showing Swedish Meccano Imitators at http://www.vingaker.com/meccano/ .
George Hardy (U.S.A.) maintains the "Richter's Anchor Stone Building Sets" site at http://www.ankerstein.org/ . In particular, please see the "Bridge Set (of 1895)" which predates Frank Hornby's 1901 Meccano patent.