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 ...

[Brian Leach] of the South East London Meccano Club has put an impressive amount of ingenuity into making his pinball machine almost entirely out of Meccano parts. He started in 2013 and we saw ...

Regardless of discipline, race and rally cars are built meticulously – it’s a fine art to assemble a life-size Meccano or Lego set, featuring approximately 3000 parts. It’s a process that ...

Meccano was made by Frank Hornby in Liverpool from 1908 until the early 1960's. While it was not the first construction toy - it was one of the first to use elements such as regularly spaced holes ...

Woman Engineer As a child Beatrice Shilling said she played with Meccano and spent her pocket money on penknives, an adjustable spanner, a glue pot and other simple tools Born in 1909, in ...