A pair of new products from children's model company Meccano are set to further blur the line between toys and technology. MeccaSpider and M.A.X. were both on display at London's Toy Fair trade show ...

A model maker has used Meccano to create his own version of new trains that will run on the Tyne and Wear Metro. John Herdman spent three months making the remote-controlled miniature, which includes ...

A model maker has used Meccano to create his own version of new trains that will run on the Tyne and Wear Metro. John Herdman spent three months making the remote-controlled miniature, which includes ...

A unique Tyne and Wear Metro train has been recreated in Meccano thanks to one man’s labour of love. It was built by expert model maker John Herdman from Whickham in Gateshead. John, 70, spent three ...

MECCANO models of planes, cranes and automobiles were on display at a County Durham rail museum over the weekend. The North East Meccano Society held its annual exhibition at Locomotion, the National ...

Working models created by Telford and Ironbridge Meccano Society will be on display for anyone visiting the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Enginuity, over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend from Saturday to ...

"When I was 13, and a student at Delhi-s Modern School, I spotted a huge pre-war No. 10 Meccano set, the biggest of its time in our Physics department; I requested the HOD if I could assemble it. I ...

As far as model construction sets go, LEGO is by far the most popular brand for building not only pre-planned models but whatever the builder can imagine. There are a few others out there though, some ...

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A HUGE toy replica of the Menai suspension bridge, salvaged from a demolished Liverpool factory, could make £1,000 in an auction next week. The Meccano model bridge is more than 7ft long, 3ft high and ...

There have been some large Meccano models built – the construction toy invented by Frank Hornby over 100 years ago, but retired applied mathematics lecturer Graham Shepherd believes he has built the ...