Regarding Plastic Meccano, here are a couple of photos of it that I found on Ebay, very different to the set you showed in a recent post. As a boy I had a New Zealand made Torro construction set, which I think was Plastic Meccano for the NZ market. This would have been early 1970s I think, or perhaps very late 1960s.
Not sure, but mine might be in storage at the moment. So here are a couple of photos from Trade Me, the NZ equivalent of Ebay. Looking at the photos, it appears the shapes are all the same, but the fine surface detail on the NZ sets is different, with more studs than the British sets ? Or did the design change over the years ? This is not my field, so I could be wrong on the finer points.
The set I had, and a few accessory sets, was mainly red, blue, and yellow, but some boxes were black (perhaps smoother than the yellow boxes ? Not sure after all this time), and a few track links in orange. Torro also did building blocks.
Paul Adams from New Zealand
Thats what I had a kid, except the spanners were black. Couldnt ever make much with it, but I loved the colours and the solid chunkiness of it.
ReplyDeleteI had some too Wote. Always loved it, the plastic torque on the nuts.
ReplyDeleteahh - you should have been more careful with the spanner..
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