Since its invention in 1900, kids have loved playing with the Meccano construction set. Now one of those kids has imaginatively redesigned it. Since he was a child, Dutch designer Tomm Velthuis has ...

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 ...

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 for ...

The ‘Meccano Set’ is a haphazard arrangement of signs and traffic lights on the Hume Highway at Lansdowne that points you helpfully toward Milperra, Liverpool, Fairfield and Parramatta. It was built ...

In a bid to take on a building-set behemoth, Canadian toy company Spin Master is reviving a classic. Toronto-based Spin Master Ltd. has acquired the iconic Meccano construction set line, with the ...

THE FALLING popularity of Meccano and the rise of Lego has been decried as a "disaster of modern life" that is inextricably linked to "the demise of British engineering" by one of the country's most ...

FOR MILLIONS of mechanically inclined young tinkerers, the Erector set (known in Europe as Meccano) has been the ultimate kit. This collection of perforated metal beams and panels, held together with ...

This pinball table is almost entirely out of Meccano Construction Set parts. [Brian Leach]’s Meccano Pinball Machine features a digit counter, a kick out hole, flippers, and a timer. The digit counter ...

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 business. Meccano may have been started in the UK more than a century ...

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 for ...