Meccano Magazine Complete Collection 1916 to 1981

650 Vintage e-Books Collection on 3 DVD’s

Full collection of Meccano Magazine, covering years from 1916 to 1981.

 E-books available on 3 Data DVD’s.

650 Magazines in PDF Format!

Tens of thousands of pages!

Well Over 9 Gigabytes of Data!

Free delivery in UK!

Meccano Magazine was an English monthly hobby magazine published by Meccano Ltd between 1916 and 1963, and by other publishers between 1963 and 1981. The magazine was initially created for Meccano builders, but it soon became a general hobby magazine aimed at "boys of all ages". It remained in circulation for over sixty years.

The magazine was launched by Frank Hornby, the inventor of Meccano, as a bi-monthly publication in 1916 in the United States as "Meccano Engineer", and was a month ahead of the UK issue. The first copies were given away free but in 1918 readers had to pay two pence for postage for four issues.

In 1917 and again in 1932, Hornby published a history of Meccano, its manufacture and marketing in the magazine. In 1919 it doubled its size to eight pages and now cost one penny. New Meccano parts were advertised for the first time in 1920 and in 1922 the magazine became a monthly publication. From the May 1924 issue, the magazine had full-colour covers, and the December 1924 issue was 96 pages, costing six pence. By the 1930s Meccano Magazine had a circulation of 70,000.

During the Second World War the content and quality of the magazine was reduced greatly, and the size decreased from approximately A4 to A5. The A5 pocket-size format remained until 1961 when it was increased again to A4.

In 1963 the magazine started reporting a loss and Meccano Ltd handed its publishing over to its printers, Thomas Skinner. In August 1967 Thomas Skinner terminated production of the magazine and passed the magazine on to Model & Allied Publications (MAP) of Hemel Hempstead in 1968.[2] At the end of 1972 publication stopped due to a decline in popularity.

In April 1973 it was resurrected again, this time as a quarterly magazine, and from 1977 it incorporated Meccano Engineer and the Meccanoman's Journal. Meccano Magazine's last issue was Spring 1981. (source: Wikipedia)

All these titles are long out of print, and have been scanned by various organisations around the globe.

All 650 files are in PDF format, organised by year in 8 folders.

You will need a PDF reader like Abobe Reader

You Will Receive 3 NEW DVD’s with artwork (as shown on the picture) in plastic sleeve (no BOX included).

Please note this DVD is for use in a computer that has a DVD optical drive, it will not work in a traditional DVD player that is connected to a television. Files can be printed and/or transferred to tablets/phones/other devices.

You will receive the following:

1916 – 1919

11 Issues

1920 – 1929

102 Issues

1930 – 1939

120 Issues

1940 – 1949

120 Issues

1950 – 1959

119 Issues

1960 – 1969

115 Issues

1970 – 1979

61 Issues

1980 – 1981

2 Issues

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