Excerpt from Meccano Prize Models: A Selection of the Models Which Were Awarded Prizes in the Meccano Competition, 1914-15 The first reason is that the brightest and brainiest boys in the world have put their energies to it. There is not a civilized country in the world where Meccano is not a household word, and there are few wideawake boys who do not own an outfit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.