It all began back in 1898 in a small Liverpool shop where Franck Hornby took pleasure inventing a construction game for his children using screws and nuts. This gave rise to the MECCANO system in 1901.

Franck Hornby finalized his system and marketed it under the brand name "Mechanics Made Easy".  The name MECCANO was registered in 1907.

MECCANO is in a very strong product launch phase. In addition to bringing back to life the traditional system that made it famous and is today an international paragon, Meccano continually moves toward innovation with imaginative assembling systems it devises using the latest materials, for modern creations.