Historical information

A colour photograph of a display in Manical Mechanicals in Marysville in Victoria.

Significance

A colour photograph of a display in Manical Mechanicals in Marysville in Victoria.
Manical Mechanicals was owned and operated by Marg and Alistair Mackie in Murchison Street in Marysville in Victoria. It offered a display of various engineering wonders of the world all made from Meccano. There was also a selection of models, toys and other items that all moved.
The Meccano models were all built by Doug Wilson who lived in Wangaratta in Victoria. In 1937, when he was 12, Doug won first prize at Brunswick Technical School for making a Meccano model aeroplane with three rotating propellers.
Manical Mechanicals was destroyed in the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.