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A Collection of Six Vintage Meccano Instruction Manuals - A collection of six vintage paper instruction manuals for Meccano outfits, produced by Meccano Limited at the Binns Road factory in Liverpool, England. This group comprises one primary outfit manual and a sequential run of five accessory outfit manuals, likely dating from the mid-20th century. The set includes a green-covered manual for the No. 2 Outfit and five red-covered manuals for the No. 2a, No. 3a, No. 4a, No. 5a, and No. 6a Accessory Outfits. Each cover features a stylised colour illustration of a boy standing alongside a large Meccano crane model. The manuals bear the manufacturer name MECCANO in bold block lettering and include the copyright line: COPYRIGHT BY MECCANO LIMITED, BINNS ROAD, LIVERPOOL 13, ENGLAND. Small production codes are visible on several covers, including No. 47.2 on the green manual and No. 31.6 on the red manuals. A small adhesive label with the number 12704 is present on the No. 2 manual.