This model is based:  The Tipping Motor Wagon and the Motor Breakdown Crane from the 1930 Outfit No.4 - 7 manual.  This model was built using the  parts from the No.4 set . I liked features of both models when I built it I was looking for a typical model of that period. This was  for a Meccano display I was putting on at a vintage rally held at the Beeleigh Power museum near Maldon Essex in April 2003. Although the model is simple it has leaf springs at the front, Ackerman steering and a working crane winch. A women visitor in her 60s clearly remembered building a similar model in the late 1930s. She  told me the set was still in her loft and it was her favourite toy. I did not persuade to part with it.

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