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[Tiggers]

I don't personally think it is. Meteor is probably the straightest old boat I have ever seen with not one pulled rivet and although it needs the backcabin fitting out and running gear, the steelwork is more than sound. She'd make a cracking butty for someone.

[stagedamager]

Obviously well looked after over the years!

[pete harrison]

I have never heard of this boat before, currently up for grabs on Apollo Duck:

http://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/feature.phtml?id=507354

[alan_fincher]

11 minutes ago, pete harrison said:

I have never heard of this boat before, currently up for grabs on Apollo Duck:

http://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/feature.phtml?id=507354

Not completely obvious why there is a shower curtain hung over the PD2! - surelyit's not the warm air ducting?

Even for our frugal 240 volt usage, I doubt the benefits of a "small Victron 18W inverter" - a typo presumably.

Boat looks to have had some serious money spent on it, but it is also a serious price for a day boat conversion, I would have thought.

[Tiggers]

Meteor has now been sold! As I said before, she's a cracking butty and now has a cracking new owner

Stand by as Industry Narrowboats may be advertising more in the near future..

[Laurence Hogg]

53 minutes ago, pete harrison said:

I have never heard of this boat before, currently up for grabs on Apollo Duck:

http://narrowboats.apolloduck.co.uk/feature.phtml?id=507354

Neither have I, or seen it. It is not a Bantock my money would be on a Hickman or Harris hull. Forward bulkhead kind of says BW workboat conversion although if it is lord knows where it was kept.

[alan_fincher]

5 hours ago, Tiggers said:

Stand by as Industry Narrowboats may be advertising more in the near future..

Buttys in particular, or old boats generally?

[rivergate]

9 hours ago, Tiggers said:

Meteor has now been sold! As I said before, she's a cracking butty and now has a cracking new owner

Stand by as Industry Narrowboats may be advertising more in the near future..

Someone has a great boat then - she is a lovely butty  

[Tim Lewis]

10 hours ago, Tiggers said:

Meteor has now been sold! As I said before, she's a cracking butty and now has a cracking new owner

Stand by as Industry Narrowboats may be advertising more in the near future..

 

[zenataomm]

Stunning Tim, thanks for posting.

[Derek R.]

And you can read the rest within;

See pages 586 on, text by C.P. & C.R. Weaver.

http://pdfmm.free.fr//5712.pdf

http://www.meccanoindex.co.uk/MMpdfs1.php

These were the equivalent of X boxes; Play Stations and whatever else electronic contraption children engross themselves in today. Much Loved.

[Athy]

I just clicked on one of the Meccano Magazines at random and was immediately transported back many years! One thing I learned was that the building set 'Bayko', which I had and enjoyed playing with as a small boy, was made by Meccano. At one time I had a stack of 40 or 50 of these magazines, but regrettably they got binned during one of those house-tidying purges long ago. My Meccano set, after years as an attic dweller, went to a toy dealer when we cleared out my parents' house some 12 years ago.

[Athy]

3 minutes ago, Athy said:

I just clicked on one of the Meccano Magazines at random and was immediately transported back many years! One thing I learned was that the building set 'Bayko', which I had and enjoyed playing with as a small boy, was made by Meccano. At one time I had a stack of 40 or 50 of these magazines, but regrettably they got binned during one of those house-tidying purges long ago. My Meccano set, after years as an attic dweller, went to a toy dealer when we cleared out my parents' house some 12 years ago, along with numerous Britain's field guns and the components of my very large Trix railway layout inter alia. Parting with them all was a wrench, but one can't keep everything.

 

[Tim Lewis]

10 hours ago, zenataomm said:

Stunning Tim, thanks for posting.

Must credit stagedamger who posted it on his Facebook page recently

Tim

[Ray T]

2 hours ago, Derek R. said:

And you can read the rest within;

See pages 586 on, text by C.P. & C.R. Weaver.

http://pdfmm.free.fr//5712.pdf

http://www.meccanoindex.co.uk/MMpdfs1.php

These were the equivalent of X boxes; Play Stations and whatever else electronic contraption children engross themselves in today. Much Loved.

I like this little piece on p634:

"In closing, a word of warning please. If you should perchance be on a lock side when some boats are locking through, do not stand and stare into the cabin. It is the boatman's home. He is justly proud of it  and values its privacy. Get to know him and you may be lucky enough to be invited inside."

[Derek R.]

 

2 hours ago, Athy said:

. . . 'Bayko', which I had and enjoyed playing with as a small boy, was made by Meccano.

I think you will find Bayko was made by Plimpton Engineering of Liverpool, but they did obviously advertise in the Meccano magazine.

(Sorry - detail freak!)

Aah! Touché! To quote Wikipedia:

". . Having acquired the rights to manufacture Bayko in 1959, Meccano Ltd moved production to its Meccano factory in Speke, Liverpool. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayko 

Edited February 27, 2017 by Derek R.
Touché

[Athy]

12 minutes ago, Derek R. said:

 

I think you will find Bayko was made by Plimpton Engineering of Liverpool, but they did obviously advertise in the Meccano magazine.

(Sorry - detail freak!)

Aah! Touché! To quote Wikipedia:

". . Having acquired the rights to manufacture Bayko in 1959, Meccano Ltd moved production to its Meccano factory in Speke, Liverpool. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayko 

That makes sense: the Meccano magazine in which I found that information was from 1963.

Some years ago I was active on the toy-collector scene for a while, having had a couple of limited-edition Model T vans produced by Lledo, and went to numerous fairs selling stock to dealers. In that time I don't remember seeing a single Bayko item for sale on any of the stalls. It seemed to have been totally forgotten - how pleasing to learn that someone else remembers it.

 

[Tiggers]

20 hours ago, alan_fincher said:

Buttys in particular, or old boats generally?

Old boat(s)

[alan_fincher]

21 hours ago, alan_fincher said:

Buttys in particular, or old boats generally?

 

17 minutes ago, Tiggers said:

Old boat(s)

 

Does that include anything with a nice liner funnel?

 

[stagedamager]

6 hours ago, Tim Lewis said:

Must credit stagedamger who posted it on his Facebook page recently

Tim

Ta!

[Rob-M]

57 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

 

 

Does that include anything with a nice liner funnel?

 

Are you looking to expand your fleet Alan...?

[rivergate]

..isn't there Hampstead and Baroness at the yard as well...?

What boat is that one in the picture please..?

Edited February 27, 2017 by rivergate

[alan_fincher]

37 minutes ago, rivergate said:

What boat is that one in the picture please..?

Now you are asking - it's caused me a senior moment.

Corolla, I think, which became a BW Waterbus - probably Water Wagtail?

[rivergate]

 ..I was thinking a small Woolwich but the liner funnel had me wondering if Id gone mad and it was a big one..  

[rivergate]

..hope this isn't bad form - happily remove if it offends ..... Tay looks nice to me but do wooden motors sell for that sort of price..?  Ive been googling but cant find anything on her rebuild really..

 

  

Edited February 27, 2017 by rivergate