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whisky-dave writes
On Monday, 13 June 2016 13:22:09 UTC+1, News wrote:

Interstingly (oh yes it is), the original Hornby trains were also
Meccano style,

I thought they were invented by the same person.

They were indeed, and Dinky Toys. Frank Hornby. The vast majority of
Hornby tinplate trains were tab and slot construction, but very early 0
gauge models were nut and bolt, just like Meccano.

Here at uni we're holding the lego championships for schools

http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/public-en...nt/lego-league
It;s more about programing the lego models to collect items hit stitches etc .

Yeah, Lego are light years ahead of Meccano in that respect. Meccano
have issued a couple of robots recently, but the stuff that can be done
with Lego now is mind blowing.
--
Graeme

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