Once-popular engineering toy, in decline since the 1950s, will still be manufactured by partner companies It is the children’s toy, invented in Britain, that inspired a passion for engineering, ...

If we were to talk to engineers about the childhood toys which most inspired them, it’s likely that the older among them would mention either Meccano or Erector Set. These similar construction toys ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fascinating footage captured the final days inside a famous Liverpool factory 45 years ago. For decades, Meccano was one of the ...

Today’s Meccano factory feels, rather magically, as though it is made of Meccano itself. Once they have been spat out of the cutters, the metal parts that still form the basis of almost every Meccano ...

This is the story of a great British icon, which, despite being full of holes, conquered the world. It is also the story of why that icon is no longer British but French; why the icon is about to ...

Meccano's Mattei Theodore gives a tour of the company's ideas factory An anonymous industrial zone on the outskirts of the French port of Calais is home to one of the great historic names in the toy ...

A collection of Dinky Toy cars, Meccano construction kits, Hornby model trains, and other rarities is to go under the hammer tomorrow. The items, many never seen in public before, were rescued from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The only factory in Europe dedicated to producing iconic British construction toy brand Meccano is set to close. The plant, in ...

For decades, one Liverpool factory employed generations and made toys that are now "worth a fortune." The ECHO recently took a look back at unseen photos of the Meccano factory on Binns Road which ...

The last factory for the British model construction system Meccano, situated in France, is to close. Photo by MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE / AFP The owners of the world's last dedicated Meccano toy factory have ...

The French Meccano factory is to close by early next year - Copyright AFP Manjunath KIRAN The French Meccano factory is to close by early next year - Copyright AFP ...