Meccano Ltd was a British toy manufacturing company, established in 1908 by Frank Hornby in Liverpool, England, to manufacture and distribute Meccano and other model toys and kits created by the company. During the 1920s and 1930s it became the biggest toy manufacturer in the United Kingdom and produced three of the most popular lines of toys in the twentieth century: Meccano, Hornby Trains and Dinky Toys.[1]
Financial problems beset the company in the early 1960s and Meccano Ltd was taken over by Lines Bros Ltd in 1964.[2]
^"Frank Hornby (1863-1936): Inventor of the world's most famous toy". Museum of Liverpool. Retrieved 28 August 2008.
^Dalefield, Wes. "History of Meccano". Meccano Erector Page. Retrieved 28 August 2008.
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