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 ...

THE future of the Meccano Set overhead structure is yet to be decided despite the State Government admitting the majority of residents in the southwest are calling for it to remain. The Department of ...

Meccano is all set to unveil a WiFi-controlled, Erector-branded robot kit at CES. The Spyke certainly improves on Meccano's earlier metallic attempts at robot sets: this little fella is capable of ...

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 ...

A kit to build a toy car which has stayed in its original packaging for more than 80 years is expected to sell for more than a new, full-sized car. A red Meccano kit which dates from 1930 has been ...

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 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 ...

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 ...