Dinky Fans

From 1965 to 1970, I worked on prod­uct design in Meccano’s draw­ing office. Some­time dur­ing 1968 I was tasked with design­ing Joe’s Car. The orig­i­nal pro­posed  lay­out of this mod­el…

 In 1961, I joined Mec­ca­no Ltd. as an Appren­tice Tool­mak­er based at their fac­to­ry in Han­son Road, Ain­tree, Liv­er­pool. This fac­to­ry had con­sid­er­able mold­ing facil­i­ties for the pro­duc­tion of Bayko…

It must be point­ed out that although the focus of this arti­cle is about Dinky Toy devel­op­ment, the order of the steps out­lined below would be applied to all in…