This was one of our informal quarterly meetings where our members showed off their latest Meccano creations.
At around 2:00pm we had a short committee meeting, followed by the Model Tour in which members were invited to give a short talk about their models — in particular their entries for the Secretary’s Challenge!
The Pocket Meccano Secretary’s Challenge
This Challenge was to build a model using the contents of the Pocket Meccano set. This set was launched in 1971 — a few years before the start of SELMEC, but we are in the right decade and it was in production until 1980.
As the name implies, there were very few parts (only 20 or so actual parts, plus nuts and bolts), but when Meccano Magazine ran a Pocket Meccano model building competition at the launch in September 1971 there was an amazing variety of models produced. Some of these subsequently appeared in the instruction booklet.
The contents list is as follows:
| Part â„– |
Description |
Quantity |
| 10 |
Fishplate |
2 |
| 12 |
Angle Bracket ½” x ½” |
4 |
| 23 |
Plastic Pulley ½” |
4 |
| 34 |
Spanner |
1 |