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Pre-War Meccano Product Catalogue Covers

During the mid to late 1920s and the 1930s, Meccano Ltd. produced a range of different covers and allowed their dealers to chose which cover they would like on their Meccano All Product Catalogues.

On this page is a tabular presentation showing all the currently known covers used each year. Also included for completeness are the post war reprints of some of the 1930s catalogues. For downloads of all these catalogues, see the Meccano Product Catalogues page.

NOTE - If you hover your mouse over the thumbnails of the cover images, a larger image will appear.

There are obviously a number of gaps of where known covers would be expected to exist. Also the following covers are known to exist    (the second one in several different colour combinations) and there are probably more, so if you can help fill in the gaps it would be appreciated.

Yearly Availability of Meccano Pre-War All-Product Catalogue Covers
Cover 1920/21 1921/22 1922/23 1923/24 1924/25 1925/26 1926/27 1927/28 1928/29 1929/30 1930/31 1931/32 1932/33 1933/34 1934/35 1935/36 1936/37 1937/38 1938/39 1939/40
Large Portrait Format (6¾" x 8¾" approx)
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Small Portrait Format (5" x 7¼" Approx)
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Landscape Format (8½" x 5½" approx)
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