Many plastic parts have been re made in brass and metal and the radiator grill was also remade replacing the plastic item supplied. Other changes to the kit included replacing the 'plastic wood with real wood, floor boards and steering wheel rim and re-modelling the dash board to accurately represent the original. It is on this museum exhibit that the Pocher kit is based and it is very different.Īpart from the car being painted entirely red, including the radiator surround and front wheels there are many other differences between the exhibit and the original car. The object of this build was to make the model as the Fiat raced in 1907 rather than as it appears now in the Italian museum. Patent US1242202A STRUCTURAL DEVICE / ( 130hp French Grand Prix 1907 - Pocher 1/8 scale."The American Model Builder", Meccano Magazine, October 1978 pages 134-135.Can be operated on dry cells, or on city current through our inexpensive transformer. Not a toy, but a real motor in miniature, capable of lifting ten pounds. It has bronze bearings throughout, finest wiring, brushes, commutator, etc. This high-grade powerful electric motor is included with even the medium-priced sets of the American Model Builder. Think of building a big grandfather's clock that will run for two hours a stationary engine that will go like a real engine traveling crane that will actually lift derricks, windmills, automobiles, elevators, printing presses, trolley cars, pile drivers, warships, hoist bridges, and hundreds of other models that you can really operate! Think what you can do with 15% more new and novel parts – such as real automobile wheels, car wheels, truck frames, bolster plates, "T" strips, ratchet pawls, new gears and angle irons!
THE LARGE CAR MODEL BUILDER FREE
A real electrical motor given free with most sets.īoys, what do you think of that? Don't you say its many big improvements make the American Model Builder the "Boss of 'em all?" Every part made of fines brass and cold-rolled steel, double-plated.
THE LARGE CAR MODEL BUILDER MANUAL
The American Model Builder! Gives you 15% more new and novel parts! Builds more practical working models! Builds models impossible with other outfits! Our big manual shows 370 models, and hundred of others can be made. Can be added to at any time.ġ915 advertising text: Say fellows! Here's the Boss of 'em all!
Same material, in miniature as used by the great steel builders. Made of steel and brass, nickeled, and consists of beams, girders, angle irons, wheels, bolts, etc. Endorsed by leading educators – Y.M.C.A's – schools, etc. YOU GET AS INTERESTED as your boy in this wonderful new mechanical game – building all sorts of models in steel – just like the gigantic masterpieces of real steel builders. It takes them into the stirring realm of steel – the gigantic building operations of this great age. Here is a wonderful new game that will completely fascinate them – hold them entranced by the hour. There is also a 1920 patent for a motorised wheel with electrical contacts for use in computing.ġ913 advertising text: A REAL GAME FOR RED-BLOODED AMERICAN BOYSīoys like to build – to create – not simply play. was granted a US patent in 1917 for a clip for attaching Meccano-style strips to each other at an angle. Keller, Crafton, Allegheny, Pennsylvania" of the American Mechanical Toy Co. We haven't found a record of the Canadian patent, but "John R. The (1913?) box artwork for American Model Builder says that a US patent had been applied for and a Canadian patent granted. Hornby considered AMB to be the most egregious violator of his patents, because they had not only copied the parts of his system, but also parts of the instruction manuals.Īfter Hornby had won the (long, expensive) court case, he set up a Meccano manufacturing plant in the US, in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The system was being advertised in Popular Mechanics in 1913, and set artwork also seems to be 1913.įrank Hornby vs American Mechanical Toy Co.
(1911?-) of Dayton, Ohio, until they were sued by Frank Hornby (who had invented and patented Meccano in 1901). 1915: American Model Builder advert, Popular Mechanics Īmerican Model Builder was a " Meccano clone" produced in the United States for a few years by the American Mechanical Toy Co.
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