Tank
Tank
An astonishingly well made remote control tank, with a full working gearbox for steering, no cheating with two motors.
Crane
Crane
An enourmous telescopic mobile crane model. Seriously this was huge.
Digger
Digger
A very agile digger, the operator did an impressive demo driving it up to a step and lifting itself up with the bucket. Lovely set of home-made tracks on this one.
Balance Bridge
Balance Bridge
This was a perfectly balanced bridge model. The weighted carriage (foreground) counter-balances the bridge as it lifts or lowers.
Rolling Bridge
Rolling Bridge
Another ingenious bridge design brilliantly modelled, this one rolls up to a hexagon on the left bank of the “canal”.
Tall Crane
Tall Crane
I told you it was big!!
Recursion
Recursion
Liberator (Blakes' 7) and Enterprise (Star Trek) in the background. In the foreground, James May's Meccano bridge, somewhat perversely, modelled in Meccano.
Tractor
Tractor
A thing of beauty.
Tower
Tower
Part of the local scenery at Kew Bridge Steam Museum, the venue for the Meccano exhibit, this is the Standpipe Tower, a kind of giant upside-down u-bend.
Train
Train
London's last running steam locomotive apparently.