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guardian.co.uk  May 15  Comment 
Google Doodle celebrates 150 years of the inventor of model train sets, Meccano and Dinky Toys He brought us a world of miniature nuts and bolts, and diminutive plates and girders, clockwork train sets and model village landscapes, doll house...
guardian.co.uk  May 15  Comment 
Briton born 150 years ago in 1863 was also the inventor of Meccano and Dinky Toys Frank Hornby: the man who put the world in a box The birth of one of the world's greatest inventors of toys is celebrated with a Google doodle featuring trains,...
Financial Times  Apr 11  Comment 
James Crosby and Andy Hornby, excoriated for presiding over a ‘colossal’ bank failure, accrued benefits at roughly twice the rate of ordinary workers
Financial Times  Apr 10  Comment 
Downing Street comments switch focus from Sir James Crosby to his successor, Andy Hornby, and Lord Stevenson, the failed bank’s former chairman
guardian.co.uk  Apr 10  Comment 
Former HBOS chief James Crosby has offered to give up his knighthood and a third of pension – but should his successor Andy Hornby and the bank's former chairman Lord Stevenson face action?
Times Online  Jan 4  Comment 
Hornby has appointed a new finance director as it struggles to turn its business around. The model train maker, which...
BBC News  Nov 9  Comment 
Hornby reports a half-year loss of £0.5m, with the toymaker blaming weak UK and Olympic sales, and disruption at a key Chinese supplier.
guardian.co.uk  Sep 28  Comment 
Hornby, famous for its model trains, has made many changes to stay viable. But straying into the realm of Olympic souvenirs did it no favours The wind bent the rain to the diagonal. In the Just the Ticket cafe at the Hornby Visitor Centre, I ate...
guardian.co.uk  Sep 25  Comment 
Company admits its London 2012 products will lose £1m this year, against forecast profits of £2m On its website Hornby boasts that its Corgi die-cast Olympic figurine collection will become a "lasting legacy of a monumental moment in sporting...





 


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