Ocelot Steering Wheel Glove

Hi Woodsy

To promote their various products – Meccano engineering sets, Hornby model railways, and Dinky Toys - Meccano Limited published their own monthly magazine. Called Meccano Magazine, it ran from 1916 until 1981, although in later years it was published by other concerns, and turned in to a more general hobbies magazine for boys.

Apart from its main job of promoting Meccano, it also carried advertising for other companies. Some of these had nothing to do with toys or hobbies.

Copies of Meccano Magazine can be found on a site called the Internet Archive, which is a great source of reference material. While not all years are complete, there is plenty of interest in the issues from the 1950s and 1960s.

I was recently going through some of the back numbers, and found this vintage Father's Day ad in the June 1965 issue. Do you think your Father would have been happy to receive an Ocelot Steering Wheel Glove for Father's Day one year ?

Good grief !

Paul Adams from New Zealand

Plum Daft

This double plum was nestling in our fruit bowl.

What a .... Hmmm. Not sure!

It reminds me of several movie thingies, the alien child in ALIEN Resurrection, the bear monster baby in Prophecy, a Wookieling.

What does it remind you of?

NASA Artemis Launch Live

NASA https://share.google/iDMipGhSdKTPieGgO 

What a Spectacle!

 Is that my head under the table?

No, just my knee! 

😆

Two Heads Are Better Than One!

It's been reported in The Growth Journal that a motorbike rider has begun to grow a second head from his rear end.

The rider explained wryly:

"I'm going to have to buy another helmet now!"

Lost Doctor Who episodes to be released on BBC iPlayer this week - BBC News

Lost Doctor Who episodes to be released on BBC iPlayer this week - BBC News https://share.google/iHZLqr4c4vvXQVKJS

Will you be watching these lost episodes?   

Doom with a View

 On a mosey round the Pontefract area today I saw a few bits of interest.

I picked up this complete Star Wars police vehicle for four squid.

This Mattel Hot Shots sadly had a front plastic fender missing. 

A Tank Commander and parachute. 

This Dr.Doom in a glass cabinet was priced really high. Is there something special about him? Thor was a bit less at £15. I thought these figures were two a penny?

Have you seen anything of not lately? 

Cereal Packet PC

 I was thinking about making stuff with card as a kid. One thing was a cereal box computer.

I remember it involved wooden skewers and hole-punched cards. A card would fall into the he at the bottom of it was the right answer.

But how on earth did it work? I've forgotten.

Do you know readers?