HORNBY TOYS
DEATH OF INVENTOR (British Official Wireless.) Press Associatjon—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, September 21. (Received September 22, at noon) Mr Frank Hornby, a former Member of Parliament for the Liverpool Constituency, died there following an operation, in his seventy-fourth year. Mr Hornby was the inventor of the Meccano toys and the Hornby toy trains, and from a small workshop with one assistant, built up a business of worldwide reputation, with-factories covering five acres and employing 1,500.
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Evening Star, Issue 22450, 22 September 1936, Page 9
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76HORNBY TOYS Evening Star, Issue 22450, 22 September 1936, Page 9
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