Other Hornby - Meccano Products
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Credit: Brighton Toy Museum
Hornby Speed Boats on display at the FHHC in Maghull.
Hornby Speed Boats manufactured at the Meccano Factory 1932- 1940 as seen at an exhibition at Christ Church, Waterloo, Liverpool in 2022.
We have some Bako building sets on display at our Maghull Heritage Centre which have been donated to our Trust by a number of people.
Bayko was originally made by Plimpton Engineering of Liverpool which was acquired by Meccano in 1950.
Hornby Speed Boats
Hornby Speed Boats were first introduced in 1932. More information can be found here.
The Model Differential Analyser
[Emphasis that this was not a Binns Road Product, however Meccano was used to construct it]
The model differential analyser built at Manchester University in 1934 by Douglas Hartree and Arthur Porter made extensive use of Meccano parts: this meant that the machine was less costly to build, and it proved "accurate enough for the solution of many scientific problems".[28] A similar machine built by J.B. Bratt at Cambridge University in 1935 is now in the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) collection in Auckland, New Zealand.[28] A memorandum written for the British military's Armament Research Department in 1944 describes how this machine had been modified during World War II for improved reliability and enhanced capability, and identifies its wartime applications as including research on the flow of heat, explosive detonations, and simulations of transmission lines.[29]
Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_analyser