Damn, another fantastic traditional educational toy dies. I grew up with Meccano , never was lucky enough to own a steam powerplant but I learned a lot of basic engineering principles that I have used to this day across many different careers. Coding and digital may be the future for controls but at the end of the day the things they are controlling are still mechanical devices and the old rules and principles apply. Often there us a mechanical work around that is more effective than some lines of code.
Auch ich hatte nie einen Bezug zu diesen "MAMOD " Maschinen aus England ! Aber schön waren / sind Sie allemal !😊 Ich weiß auch nicht wie lange der Wilhelm Schröder ( Wilesco) noch seine Produktion von Dampfmaschinen betreiben wird !😮 A Great Technology and Hobby will never die !!❤❤
This realy saddenes me, but at least we can still enjoy the machines allredy been made, as far as i know no other company made so many great actual steam models to fit the original Meccano, i am so glad i finaly got ny self one of those yellow meccano platform steamplants a few years agoo. It came with a box of other small Mamod machines in various stages from the same collector in Britain, i love them so much i probably keep them for my own collection. I hawe some original wire driven toys models for them as well, super cute when they run, with a few obvious exceptions, most of them are actualy functional as well, (at least to some extent; one can cut paper and drill matches)!
Very sad to see that an old and traditional manufacturing, which produced a very unique kind of "toys" is no longer successful and have to close the doors. I hope Wilesco will survive.
Yes the End of Mamod is very, very, sad 😞. Especially the older ones have a unique charackter! Wilesco will survive for two reasons, first they own their fabrication building, so no rent. Second, they also produce shovels and coat hooks, not only steam engines. So they deliver the Deutsche Bahn with coat hooks for their trains for example... And this part of the business is more than 50% of annual balance. So no steam toys, Wilesco makes more shovels and coat hooks. "Always have a second source of support", Mamod never could make that it seems... You want a wilesco coat hook, the same like used in the famous ICE-train of Deutsche Bahn? Here you go: www.reidl.de/wilesco-garderobenprofilhaken-90-x-150-mm-fo-lm-poliert-p204469?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwqre1BhAqEiwA7g9QholSNUUiJF5Tnz-oi8M5FmARpVHWxbFeAcH4bgte9TWdt7fO3KQqiRoCrkYQAvD_BwE
Damn, another fantastic traditional educational toy dies. I grew up with Meccano , never was lucky enough to own a steam powerplant but I learned a lot of basic engineering principles that I have used to this day across many different careers. Coding and digital may be the future for controls but at the end of the day the things they are controlling are still mechanical devices and the old rules and principles apply.
Often there us a mechanical work around that is more effective than some lines of code.
Computers are important for controlling, but at the end these steering the mechanical levers and valves...
Superb to see it running Paul. Times change but good toys never die
Yes, you are right.
Auch ich hatte nie einen Bezug zu diesen "MAMOD " Maschinen aus England !
Aber schön waren / sind Sie allemal !😊
Ich weiß auch nicht wie lange der Wilhelm Schröder ( Wilesco) noch seine Produktion von Dampfmaschinen betreiben wird !😮
A Great Technology and Hobby will never die !!❤❤
This realy saddenes me, but at least we can still enjoy the machines allredy been made, as far as i know no other company made so many great actual steam models to fit the original Meccano, i am so glad i finaly got ny self one of those yellow meccano platform steamplants a few years agoo. It came with a box of other small Mamod machines in various stages from the same collector in Britain, i love them so much i probably keep them for my own collection. I hawe some original wire driven toys models for them as well, super cute when they run, with a few obvious exceptions, most of them are actualy functional as well, (at least to some extent; one can cut paper and drill matches)!
Very nice, like !
These toys look well loved.
Very sad to see that an old and traditional manufacturing, which produced a very unique kind of "toys" is no longer successful and have to close the doors. I hope Wilesco will survive.
Yes the End of Mamod is very, very, sad 😞. Especially the older ones have a unique charackter!
Wilesco will survive for two reasons, first they own their fabrication building, so no rent. Second, they also produce shovels and coat hooks, not only steam engines. So they deliver the Deutsche Bahn with coat hooks for their trains for example... And this part of the business is more than 50% of annual balance. So no steam toys, Wilesco makes more shovels and coat hooks. "Always have a second source of support", Mamod never could make that it seems...
You want a wilesco coat hook, the same like used in the famous ICE-train of Deutsche Bahn? Here you go: www.reidl.de/wilesco-garderobenprofilhaken-90-x-150-mm-fo-lm-poliert-p204469?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwqre1BhAqEiwA7g9QholSNUUiJF5Tnz-oi8M5FmARpVHWxbFeAcH4bgte9TWdt7fO3KQqiRoCrkYQAvD_BwE
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