A NOVEL TOY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 October 1913, Page 2

A NOVEL TOY.

THE "MECCANO." Messrs Jolin Graham and Co., of Masterton, have been appointed sole Wairarapa agents for "Meccano," which is one of the most novel and amusing, and at the same time instructive toys ever placed before the public. The novelty will be exhibited in Messrs Graham and Go's, windows to-morrow, and is sure to attract the attention of the boys of the town. Meccano consists of the structural material for the construction of' eighty-nine models, such as girder cranes, railway bridges, aeroplanes, towers, lighthouses, ferris wheels, bridges, windmills and others too numerous to mention. The box is given to the boy and he becomes his own inventor, fashioning, and perhaps improving the many beautiful designs that are placed before him by the accompanying instruction book. Everything necessary is provided in each outfit—plated metal strips, accurate gear wheels, pulleys, rods, nuts and bolts. A small motor can also be obtained which will drive the various models and so complete the young inventor's joy. Tlie Meccano motor is just the thing for the Meccano enthusiast. It i,s fine for him to build up his Meccano model piece by piece, and see it gradually assuming its final graceful proportions, and then to turn the handle, and see the beautiful mechanism set to motion, but —he had to turn the He does not have to do this any more. He juist fits a dainty little Meccano motor into his model, makes' the motor become part of the model in, fact, and when he has got everythingiiicely adjusted, he operates the lever, and away the whole thing goes in beautifu 1 and fascinating style. The roundabout move® round just as it should, the windmill revolves, the motor van and luggage waggon come to life and run along the floafr in a most businesslike way, the crane raises and lowers its load and luffs its jib, and the warehouse lift ascends and descends and stops by the simple operation of the levers The motor is driven by spiings, and it is quite free 1 from the dangers and disadvantages of steam or electric driven motors.