Mamod Miniature Tools and Line Shaft Details
The company produced a range of model workshop equipment with either cast iron or diecast metal bodies and bases designed to be compatible with Meccano (½ inch (12.7 mm) spacing). The range comprised:
- Model Power Press (later called Power Punch)
- Model Power Hammer - a trip hammer
- Miniature Polishing Machine - with two 1.25 in (32 mm) inch felt polishing wheels
- Miniature Grinding Machine - with one fine and one medium 0.75 in (19 mm) inch grinding wheels.
- Miniature Line Shaft - enabling several models to be run at one time, fitted with three Meccano-compatible pulleys
The tools have featured in the Mamod range of steam toys since the company's inception in 1937. Very early tools featured simple flat bases with Meccano-spaced holes. These early tools also have Meccano-like pulleys fitted with crudely made sand cast iron bodies. They continued after the war in the pre-war form until 1948 when, along with the SE1, SE2 and MM2 engines the hammer and Power Punch (later "Power Press") were fitted with the new hot stamped brass flywheels. At the same time Malins Engineers moved to Camden Street, Birmingham. With this move the company acquired some power presses and the new brass-wheeled tools (and polisher/grinder) began to get raised bases. The cast iron bodies for all the tools were replaced by Mazak around 1950. The pressing facilities also enabled the MM1 engine to be the first steam toy in the Malins range to be produced with a raised baseplate. Apart from the change from brass to Mazak flywheels in 1953 and the disappearance of oiling points by the 1960s, the tools changed very little over the years. By 1979 the tools had changed to a blue and red colour scheme (replacing the green/red scheme used on all the engines and tools up until then) inline with the new SP series of engines. Due to the financial situation, the tools as separate items disappeared from the range in the mid 1980s along with the SP1, 3 and 5 but were together in the WS1 workshop introduced in 1979. In the early 2000s the individual tools reappeared.
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