Pre-war - Other

General

The main change in the 8/35 edition was the replacement of SM.134 using ring fromes instead of channel segments.
The main change in the 6/36 edition was on page 40 where many of the SML leaflets were deleted.

Detailed changes between the manuals

8/35 edition (differences from 11/34 edition)

• Front Cover : the Copyright Notice moved from bottom centre to bottom right
• IFC : First paragraph of 'Inventing New Models' changed - 'Model Building with Meccano......' » 'The hundreds of models.....'
• Page 1 : Levers-Intro - Text changes
• Page 4 : SM.19 - 'SM19' added at the beginning of the description (It had been omitted in the 1934 edition)
• Page 5 : SM.21 - In the text 'SM.22' changed to bold
• Page 5 : SM.23 - In the text 'SM.23a' changed to bold
• Page 28 : SM.133 - the first sentence was expanded to become two due to more room available due to change of picture for SM.134
• Page 28 : SM.134 - Mechanism changed - Channel segments replaced by ring frome
• Page 30 : SM.142 - Text change - 'This type of crosshead is used largely in....' » 'Crossheads of this type are used in....'
• Page 31 : SM.146 - 3rd paragraph - '...third coupling 2 by means...' » '...third coupling by means...'
• Page 33 : SM.158 - Text amendment 'The illustration is a typical control...' » 'The illustration is of a typical control...'
• Page 37 : SM.175 - Correction - SM1750 » SM.175
• IRC : Index - Some of the mechanisms had their names amended slightly so that similar mechanisms were listed together - eg. 'Built-up Ball Bearing' » 'Ball Bearing, Built-up'
• Rear Cover - Print code deleted from rear cover

6/36 edition (differences from 8/35 edition)

• Page 2 : Text change in the last sentence of the last paragraph
• Page 6 : SM.38 - The second half of the text is replaced by new mechanism SM.38a
• Page 6 : SM.40 - 1st paragraph cut short to make room for new SM.38a
• Page 13 : SM.63 - Paragraph 3 - The sentence 'It should be.....reinforced bearing' now surrounded by brackets ()
• Page 16 : SM.76 - Paragraph 2, Last Sentence - Text amendment
• Page 22 : SM.105 - In text SM.105 changed from bold to normal
• Page 22 : SM.105 - Paragraph 2 - '...1" rubber ring...' » '...rubber ring...'
• Page 22 : SM.105 - Last paragraph - '...step-up...' » '...step-down...'
• Page 31 : SM.145 - Reference to Super Model No.37 deleted
• Page 36 : SM.168 - Last paragraph - '...four 5/8" rubber rings...' » '...four rubber rings...'
• Page 36 : SM.169 - Formatting of text between 1st and 2nd columns changed
• Page 38 : SM.179 - Text amendment - '...Channel Section...' » '...channel section...'
• Page 39 : SM.183, SM.184, SM.185, SM.186 - 'Accumulator' » 'Transformer'
• Page 40 : In 1934/5, the full range of super model leaflets was listed. In 1936 the following were deleted - 3, 4, 8, 15, 16a, 17, 19a, 23, 26, 27, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37. Also leaflet No.11 » No.11a
• Rear Cover
  The pictures of the MM's were changed
  MM circulation changed from over 70,000 » over 60,000
  MM mailed prices were deleted and replaced with - overseas readers to write for subscription rates
• The phrases 'Grub Screws' and 'Set Screws' were replaced by 'grub-screws' and set-screws' in many mechanisms. It has been seen in the following, but there may are more that have been missed:-
  11, 14, 42, 49, 59, 72, 77, 89, 91, 95, 116, 120, 126, 131, 133, 139, 143, 152, 161, 168, 171