Rare Meccano Constructor Gyro Airplane - 1930s - VG - Original w/Pilot

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Rare Meccano Constructor Gyro Airplane - 1930s - VG - Original w/Pilot:
$179.95

For sale - Super RareMeccano Constructor Gyro model Aeroplane from the mid 1930\'s. ....WINGSPAN IS 12 INCHES....Totally complete and original with original pilot. VG condition. The parts that are silver and red. No rust or metal damage. Purchased in England in the 1980\'s from a large Meccano collector.

In 1931 Meccano decided there was a need for a more diversified range of products and in September of that year the Aeroplane Constructor Outfit No 1 was introduced, with a simple fold-out Manual showing six models using special interchangeable metal parts, held together with nickel plated 5/32” Whitworth dome head Bolts. Brassed dome head Bolts were first introduced into the standard outfits in the late 1920s but Meccano reverted to the original cheese head by the mid thirties.

It is interesting to note that the Aeroplane Outfits always included dome head bolts in nickel right up to WWII--possibly using up old stock. This No 1 Aero Outfit was quickly followed by a larger Aeroplane Constructor Outfit No 2 with a much broader range of Parts and models listed in a proper Manual of 24 pages.

These new Aero Outfit Parts were completely different from the standard Meccano range, with large shaped and formed sheet metal panels and wings, but still fixed together with Meccano nuts and bolts. The early Outfits were originally supplied with English military roundels for the wings and fuselage and a painted military marking on the tail fin, but by 1933 this arrangement was replaced by civilian wing and fuselage markings. The wings were quickly improved in design with better and stronger shaping and by 1932
a new smaller 0 Outfit arrived, followed by the 00 Outfit in 1935, similar to the first Outfit but with fewer parts.

This new range was not interchangeable with the larger Outfits, having a single-piece body pressing and 11-inch wingspan, assembled with nickel plated 6 BA Bolts with hex Nuts. (BA was the British Association thread system for small bolts; 6 BA was 0.11 inches, a little over 7/64” diameter, with finer thread than British Standard Whitworth.)

The No 1 and No 2 Outfits had 18-inch wingspan and were assembled with nickel plated standard dome head Meccano Bolts and square Nuts. Sales in the UK must have been satisfactory because by 1933 a new range of much larger Special Aeroplane Constructor Outfits No 1 and 2 were introduced.

These enhanced Outfits provided a wide spread of excellent aeroplane models which could be built, from a single-engine monoplane to a three-engine biplane airliner.

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