Meccano's suppliers

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Wed, 02/17/2016 - 17:55

dinkycollect

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A few year ago, David Busfield started a thread probably on TMT . This was about the suppliers of Meccano Ltd.

Today, the list is as follows for Meccano Ltd :

Pinions for Elevator loader : John Righby & Sons of Birmingham (not the gun maker)
                                                  Birmingham Eng. Co. Ltd.
Chains for Foden                   Birmingham Associated Chains Ltd.
Aluminium castings            Birmingham Aluminium Casting Company
Dies                                       Thomas Keating of Billingshurst (Sussex)

For Meccano s.a. :

Plastic parts                          Ets. Bourgeois
Tyres                                             Le Joint Français
Paints                                      Herberts Hadfields
Mock-up and master models   Ets. Monnier Paris
Figures and petrol pumps         Fonderie Roger
Various printers

Can you add any more ?

Jacques.

Wed, 02/17/2016 - 21:15

janwerner

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Jacques, I seem to remember that the manufacturing of the tinplate tank for the Fodens (and later Leyland Octopus) was done by a subcontractor too. Unfortunately I cannot find it immediately in my documentation, but it may be an indication where to search for this (if I'm right). Kind regards, Jan

Thu, 02/18/2016 - 08:42

dinkycollect

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Jan,

Thank you for your help, I have checked the drawings of the tank parts job 12 823 to 26, none of them show the suppliers name. The drawings 12 821 "Tanker assembly" and / or 12 822 "Tank" may be where you have seen the name of the supplier.

John may be able to help in this case, I know that he is working hard on the list of jobs 1 500 of which have been identified so far allowing to write the parts lists for some of the models.

Thu, 02/18/2016 - 19:53

buzzer999

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I started to compile a list of the suppliers to Meccano Liverpool a number of years ago and I have attached it below.

There has to be many more and I would welcome any further information.

Dave

Fri, 02/19/2016 - 16:47

dinkyfan

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Dave--On behalf of all of us members, thanks for all the work you have done on compiling that. It is quite a list, and as you stated, there have to be many more. This should be archived somewhere accessible on the site for future reference.
Best regards, Terry

Fri, 02/19/2016 - 22:18

buzzer999

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I am perfectly happy for it to go into one of the documentation sections of the site. Where it goes is down to Dave K

Dave

Sat, 02/20/2016 - 10:14

dinkycollect

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David,

This is truly a great piece of work. Congratulations.

Jacques.

Sat, 02/20/2016 - 16:22

john45

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I have found another supplier. In my collection are a lot of drawings from Meccano parts. Photo conductive cell No 23304 has supplier "Mullard Ltd" , cadmium sulphide photoconductive cell type RP Y 58.

John.

Sat, 02/20/2016 - 20:58

Dave.Kaun

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