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• Skyscraper panels and parts boxes artwork and instructions for fabricating them
• Erector Set parts inventories
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• How-To-Makem manuals
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• Other information is being added as it becomes available

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Erector Part History – an Excel spreadsheet from the late Girders & Gears website listing all the Erector parts and part numbers from 1913-1962.

Several of the downloads below are high-resolution scanned JPG images saved in compressed ZIP format. To save a ZIP file, right-click on the link, select “Save Target As…” (Internet Explorer) or “Save Link As…” (Firefox or Google Chrome), and save the file to a folder on your local computer. Use ZIP software such as WinZip to “un-zip” the JPG image. You can then open the image in any image editing program, or insert the image into a Word document or other publishing program.

• Erector Parts Guide 1933-1962 (PDF, 24 pages, 2.8 MB, updated 9/19/2022) – Bruce Hansen’s Parts Guide for all parts from 1933 to 1962.
• Box Label Artwork (ZIP) – Outside Box label for 10083 and 10093 sets.
• Gilbert Erector Set Guidebook 1913-1988 (PDF, 72 pages, 8.6 MB) – Rough draft of Erector Guidebook covering sets from 1913 – 1988 written by former ACGHS newsletter editor Bruce Hansen.
• Early Erector Flag (ZIP) – Scanned image of early Erector flag (part# AJ). Early version used from 1924-1954.
• Late Erector Flag (ZIP) – Scanned image of late Erector flag (part# AJ). Late version used from 1955-1962.
• Horse (ZIP) – Scanned image of the Horse (part# OF) used in the No. 10 1/2 and No. 12 1/2 sets of 1949-62.
• Black Kneeling Boy Label (ZIP) – Scanned image of the outside metal box Kneeling boy label with a black background used in late 1933 – early 1934.
• Yellow Kneeling Boy Label (ZIP) – Scanned image of the outside metal box Kneeling boy label with a yellow background used in late 1934 – 1958.
• 10 1/2 Models (PDF, 8 pages, 1.9 MB) – Pages of 10 1/2 models from the manual of the 10 1/2 Electric Train set 1938-42.
• 10 1/2 Models Foldout (PDF, 2 pages, 618kb) – Foldout pages of 10 1/2 models from the manual of the 10 1/2 Electric Train set 1938-42.
• 4 1/2 to 6 1/2 Models (PDF, 28 pages, 6.7 MB) – Pages of 4 1/2 – 6 1/2 models from the manual of the 10 1/2 Electric Train set 1938-42.
• 1 1/2 to 3 1/2 Models (PDF, 22 pages, 4.7 MB) – Pages of 1 1/2 – 3 1/2 models from the manual of the 10 1/2 Electric Train set 1938-42.
• 7 1/2 Models (PDF, 11 pages, 2.5 MB) – Pages of 7 1/2 models from the manual of the 10 1/2 Electric Train set 1938-42.
• 8 1/2 Models (PDF, 15 pages, 3.2 MB) – Pages of 8 1/2 models from the manual of the 10 1/2 Electric Train set 1938-42.
• 9 1/2 Models (PDF, 15 pages, 3.5 MB) – Pages of 9 1/2 models from the manual of the 10 1/2 Electric Train set 1938-42.
• Carousel Model (PDF, 2 pages, 392kb) – Instructions for the Carousel Model.

Gilbert-Meccano 1-inch Pulley

This scan, furnished by Kendrick Bisset, shows a cross section (yes, I cut it in half!) of the typical 1-inch pulley used in Gilbert-Meccano outfits. The boss was mounted through the hole. I added the light lines because it looks very strange with no connection of the actual wheel plate. There is some remarkable forming involved here—I have used the word ‘excruciating’. Note that the pulley is formed from a single plate. I think I have seen these in Erector sets, too, but I don’t know the Erector number, if there was one. These were listed as part number 22, and replaced the typical Meccano version.