Talk:Erector Set

message: I'd like to see a picture of the "Mysterious Walking Giant".  195.159.10.101 09:02, November 6, 2006 (UTC)
:Heck, I think this article needs any pictures of an erector set. :) Cburnett 05:16, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: Could someone who knows clarify why the thing was patented in 1901 but invented in 1911?  Cheers. --198.128.26.82 (talk) 01:22, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Clearly an error; thanks for pointing it out and letting me correct it.  Jim.henderson (talk) 18:46, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  1911 

message: The metal construction set that was patented in 1901 was Meccano. Meccano started being sold in the US in 1909, so the Erector sets' feature that they could be assembled and disassembled was not exactly unique.
The interrelationships between Meccano Ltd in the UK, Meccano Inc. in the US, and Gilbert and Lionel seems to be a little muddy. Lionel may or may not have produced Meccano's first 4V electric motor, and may or may not have owned Meccano's US factory in New Jersey, and may or may not have been the reason why the factory was sold to Gilbert in around 1928 (to raise cash?), and may or may not be the reason why the factory had stopped producing trains (because Lionel also made trains), leaving Gilbert ... manufacturing Meccano as well as their own system?
I've seen it said that Meccano-based sets may have been quietly sold under the Gilbert Erector name for some time, but given the strongly patriotic "American" branding of Erector, I suppose that it's conceivable that if the owners had  dropped "real Erector" and switched to sets based on a "foreign" product, they might not have felt inclined to mention it.
This all seems really twisty - at some point, the people who owned the Meccano brandnames are then supposed to have bought the Erector brandname, too, so the Meccano factory in Calais, France, currently produces "modern" Meccano sets under both the Meccano and Erector names, depending on which territory the sets are to be sold in. 
There's an "American Meccano" website at http://www.usmeccano.com , but even the site owner seems to have trouble unravelling the exact sequence of events ( http://www.usmeccano.com/questions/questions.htm )! I'm not going to pretend to know what really happened, if if anyone out there knows, it'd be great if they could fill the rest of us in. ErkDemon (talk) 01:47, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. If Meccano was on the market first, Erector couldn't have been unique. --Redrose64 (talk) 09:56, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gilbert and Meccano? 

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message: > "Erector remains a very versatile constructional medium. Almost any mechanical device can be built with this system, from structures, to complex working cranes, automatic gearboxes or clocks. It is frequently used to prototype new ideas and inventions. Model realization using Erector is limited only by the imagination and ingenuity of the builder."
I dunno man, seems kinda endorsement-ish to me... should we remove it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by FailSandwich (talk • contribs) 03:23, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
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