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 toys ...

Fascinating footage captured the final days inside a famous Liverpool factory 45 years ago. For decades, Meccano was one of the city's most well-known and thriving factories, employing generations. It ...

The only factory in Europe dedicated to producing iconic British construction toy brand Meccano is set to close. The plant, in Calais, France, will shut down by the first quarter of next year, leaving ...

A Liverpool nan has shared the special moment inside one lost factory that changed her life forever. When you think of Liverpool's biggest brands and factories through time, Meccano is bound to spring ...

The last factory for the British model construction system Meccano, situated in France, is to close. Photo by MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE / AFP Spin Master said Wednesday the factory's falling competitiveness ...

Today’s Meccano factory feels, rather magically, as though it is made of Meccano itself. Once they have been spat out of the cutters, the metal parts that still form the basis of almost every Meccano ...

For decades, one Liverpool factory employed generations and made toys that are now "worth a fortune." The ECHO recently took a look back at unseen photos of the Meccano factory on Binns Road which ...

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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 ...

LILLE, France - The owners of the world’s last dedicated Meccano toy factory have said it will close by 2024 after more than half a century in France because of rising costs. Canadian multinational ...

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 ...