Frank Hornby, British businessman and inventor born in 1863, is a name known across the globe for model trains and toys alike ...

However, its market capitalisation has since fallen back down. Hornby can trace its roots back to 1901 in Liverpool when founder Frank Hornby received a patent for his Meccano construction toy.

having originally been started by the Liverpudlian toy inventor Frank Hornby. The company’s departure from the stock market comes amid a flight of top British companies from London’s troubled ...

The Hornby company made some iconic toys - Hornby trainsets, Meccano and Dinky toys, and the company was founded by Frank Hornby, who was a visionary producer of toys as well as a businessman and ...

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 ...

It was made at the Hornby factory in Liverpool, run by the toy producer and visionary, Frank Hornby. The short Mayo Composite was a long range seaplane / flying boat combination produced by the ...

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Track the history of Hornby’s iconic model trains from Frank Hornby’s early home-made toys in sheet metal, through the development of Hornby ‘O’ gauge and Hornby-Dublo. Trace the ...