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 Elastic Band Powered Models Secretary’s Challenge
This Challenge was from an idea that Geoff Carter gave our Secretary. It was to build a model that is powered by an elastic band and it had to be one of those red ones postmen regularly drop on the pavement. Meccano driving bands were not allowed and definitely no motors.
Whether the elastic band propels the model along or just moves something on the model was left up to our members. With a few entries of the former we had a race across the floor to see which one travelled the furthest.