Pre-war History
Frank Hornby established Meccano in 1901 to make metal erector construction sets (Dalefield no date). Some of Meccano's other early products were "British Village" houses, church, bridge, and mill rail set accessories replete with villagers and a canvas landscape with roads and stream in natural colours.
In the early 1930s, Meccano had made many types of tin plate and other metal cars, like its Morgan and BSA three-wheelers, mostly in kit form (Interesting 1934, pp. 306–307). In 1933 Meccano Ltd issued a series of railway and trackside accessories to complement their O scale (1/45) Hornby Railways model train sets (Force 1988, p. 6; Ramsay 1933, p. 88). These accessories were first called "Modelled Miniatures", but in the April 1934 issue of Meccano Magazine they were given the name 'Dinky Toys' for the first time (Meccano Dinky 1934 p. 332).
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