Cranes have always been a popular subject and one of mine too. This is a selection of Meccano model cranes both static and mobile I have built. Click on the image or caption below and go to the page about the model with larger pictures, information about its construction and origins. Some pages have videos too.

 

NEW vintage Pontoon Crane

 

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1911 Travelling Gantry

1960 Model of the Month Block Setting Crane

1924-1937 Automatic Weighing Crane

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1942 Hammerhead crane

1937 Block-Setting Crane

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SML19 Steam Shovel

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Portable Crane 1930

Travelling Gantry Crane

Travelling Gantry Crane 1929

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Updated SML Railway Breakdown Crane

 

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1937 Breakdown Lorrry

Hand operated gantry crane

1931 Hand Operated Gantry Crane

Giant Block Setting Crane thumb

2016 Giant Block Setting Crane

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Steel works crane

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SML 18 Rotating Crane

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1930 Motor Breakdown Crane

Derrick Crane

Derrick crane

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Coles Mobile Crane

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1954 Jumbo Crane

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Granville Island Crane

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Hammer head crane

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1954 Lifting Shovel

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SML Pontoon Crane

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Tower crane

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1911 Derrick Crane

1930 Breakdown Truck

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1929 SMLSteam Excavator

1954 Forge Crane

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1914 Girder Crane

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1937 Railway Breakdown Crane

1926 Crane Thumb

1916 Clockwork Crane

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1956 Mechanical Excavator

Page created November 20, 2012  Last revised November 01 2023

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