Magazines and Manuals

This site shows scans from some Meccano Magazines (MM), Meccano Magazine Quarterlies (MMQ), Meccano and Märklin manuals, leaflets, etc. The scans were provided by several Meccanomen from the Spanner mailing list.
The Meccano Magazine was published from September 1916 until spring 1981. During the years 1973-1976 it appeared as a quarterly magazine. From 1977 on it incorporated Meccano Engineer and Meccanoman's Journal.

Download MMpub.xls, originally from Dave Bradley, for a spreadsheet with publishing details about Meccano Magazines and Meccano Quarterlies.

Each of the following sub-directories contains JPEG-files of individual pages and also a zip file of a complete issue, manual or leaflet for easy downloading.

Please don't try to download all files on this site at once with programs like HTTrack. Take what you need, the zip-files or the individual jpeg-files, but not both. The limited bandwidth has to be shared with other Meccano-men. I don't appreciate antisocial behaviour.

Latest addition March 2010: 'Handleiding doos 5 1951' under Dutch Corner. Courtesy Thomas Wollny

• Dutch Corner (Meccano, Märklin, Temsi and Necobo)
• Meccano catalogues, price lists and various
• Meccano Manuals
• Märklin Manuals
• Meccano Magazines (French)
• Meccano Magazines (English)
• Quarterlies (English)
• Meccano Engineer (English)
• Meccano labels

Spanner Plans from Les Pattison

• Archimedes Screw
• Mousetrap
• Percy - The Ping-Pong Porter

Links

• All Meccano Magazines, English versions of manuals and a wealth of additional information can be found at http://www.nzmeccano.com/
• French manuals at http://meccrl.free.fr/manuels/man.htm
• and at http://meccrl.free.fr/manuels2/man.htm
• Also at http://sizygie.free.fr/manuals
• In Spanish at http://www.meccaninfos.com.ar

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