Reading the local at the local coffee shop instead of talking to me wife when .... woo hoo! Showed me wife - go have a look at it, says she.
So off Aa goes, with permission to buy, and returns home an hour later with a box 33" long, 14" wide and 10" deep, containing 4 trays, all sub- divided, and each sub-division holding its own part no. of Meccano. Gentleman about my age who started with a No. 1 for Christmas and accumulated over the years. With the assortment came the No.1 manual, No. 7 manual and the No. 9 manual. Also an Erector electric motor (110v.) Lots of gears included and universal couplings.
Oh my!
One hundred and fifty Canadian dollars!
Am Aa the lucky little 70 year old. And this is in the bush, about 400 miles north of Vancouver. Aa can't get over it, hinny.
Mike in Burns Lake, BC