The Hornby company made some iconic toys - Hornby trainsets, Meccano and Dinky toys, and the company was founded by Frank ...

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 ...

After Meccano and Lego the model train set was for decades the most desired toy but the hobby layouts meant a following by adults world wide. Many engineers started out by building model railway ...