RE: My favorite toy as a child

It would have been a sample he had when travelling to toy fairs up and down the country, across the channel to Germany where there some phenomenal fairs. I recall the one in Nuremberg being a favourite of his.

Not bad for a guy who started off as a policeman, then bumped into an old friend who knew he was bored of the Police force and got him a job with Meccano! If I’ve spelt that right and that would have been just before I was born in the early 70s.