Dutch HRCA's 2005 AGM (2)
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Dutch HRCA 2005 AGM (1) (2) |
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On the veranda next to the museum we discovered this huge crane, which turned out to be entirely hand-built with Juneero. The story goes that it was made by a company representative, modelled after the real cranes manufactured by his factories (quite a few of these cranes can still be seen at the Port of Rotterdam). Being fully functional, construction must have taken many hours we're sure. Piet Scholten is sitting in the background, and gives some impression of the size of this thing. |
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Next to the crane, Henk has an original Juneero tool on display. Contrary to the Meccano series of ready-made components, the Juneero system required all parts of a structure to be hand-made using this tool |
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In the afternoon we spent a few enjoyable hours visiting the Toy Gallery in the nearby town of Brummen (on the road from Arnhem to Deventer). Here we found a most handsome collection of toys, splendidly displayed in glass cabinets or even complete shop windows hand-built by volunteers from the museum. |
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Most of the Hornby and Meccano items were also on loan to the Meccano exhibition, but the museum's displays were impressive nonetheless, with notably a huge number of Dinky Toys to be admired. Some of the remaining Hornby can be seen in the window of this "Meccano shop" display case. |
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Here is a glimpse of the home-made cabinets housing part of the Dinky Toys exhibit. |
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The Toy Gallery museum is located on the top floor of The Gallery vintage car showroom, which also looks like a museum but with every vehicle for sale. So even if you can't buy a Dinky toys Jaguar, Maserati or Ferrari at the toy museum, then perhaps you can buy a real one downstairs! Being a keen motorcyclist, our secretary felt seriously tempted by this vintage MV Agusta. |
