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 ...

It's always cool when the big motorcycle manufacturers shake hands with toy makers and deliver spectacular items that please the eyes and the minds of both kids and adults. The latest to do so is ...

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 ...

The search engine Google is celebrating the 150th birthday of visionary toy maker Frank Hornby, whose model railways, Meccano sets and Dinky toys are still being played with by children today. Born in ...

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 ...

A £90,000 Meccano-style footbridge has been completed and opened in Bolton (Picture: MEN Syndication) A bridge resembling a larger-than-life Meccano construction has finally been opened after a year ...

Prof Trevor Whittaker, a Guinness World Record representative and QUB Vice Chancellor Prof Patrick Johnston on the bridge on Saturday Engineering students from Queen's University Belfast have set a ...

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 ...

Prof Trevor Whittaker, a Guinness World Record representative and QUB Vice Chancellor Prof Patrick Johnston on the bridge on Saturday Engineering students from Queen's University Belfast have set a ...