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Take the kids to … the National Museum of Flight, Scotland
Edit The Guardian 07 May 2016
Two huge hangars in East Lothian, east of Edinburgh, have been given a multimillion-pound refurb to bring aviation history to life. And there’s a Concorde, too. In a nutshell. Stretching across the former East Fortune airfield, this feels less like a museum and more like a full day out ... Climbing the steps and boarding Concorde still gives a buzz ... An extensive selection of Airfix kits is likely to appeal more to sentimental parents ... 8/10 ... ....
How Corgi cars sparked 'toy arms race'
Edit BBC News 02 May 2016
They were the toy cars marketed as "The Ones With Windows", and were made right here in Wales ... As early as 1933, Philip Ullmann - a German Jew who had fled the Nazis - had been making tin-plate toys in Northampton, under the name of Mettoy or the "Metal Toy Company" ... Corgi were relaunched following a management buy-out in 1995, and the brand is now owned by Hornby, joining a stable which also includes Scalextric and Airfix ... ....
The long goodbye: James May pottering about in a shed is perfect slow TV
Edit The Guardian 04 Apr 2016
Forget Top Gear … on his BBC swansong The Reassembler, May is given complex objects that’ve been taken apart, and all he has to do it put them back together ... Related. James May ... May’s Man Lab and its precursor Toy Stories were breezily enjoyable shows but often felt self-consciously antic, with a weakness for Brobdingnagian stunts like assembling a life-size Spitfire like an Airfix model or building an actual house out of Lego ... ....
FTSE 100 rises after US interest rate fears subside
Edit Belfast Telegraph 30 Mar 2016
London's blue chip share index raced higher after US Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen soothed fears over imminent US interest rate hikes ... Share Go To ... The group - whose brands also include Scalextric, Airfix and Corgi - said Barclays had agreed to a waiver this month and added that recent trading had been "encouraging" ... ....
Model rail firm Hornby given reprieve by lender
Edit Belfast Telegraph 30 Mar 2016
Troubled model rail firm Hornby has been given a reprieve by its lender after widening losses left it at risk of breaching the terms of its bank loans. The group - whose brands also include Scalextric, Airfix and Corgi - saw shares surge by 14% after revealing Barclays had agreed to a waiver this month and added they remained in "constructive" talks. Share Go To ... Hornby said ... ....
FTSE 100 surges as US interest rate fears soothed
Edit Belfast Telegraph 30 Mar 2016
Markets surged higher across Europe after US Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen soothed fears over imminent interest rate hikes ... Share Go To. The Cac 40 in France and Germany's Dax were also rallying strongly, up 1.9% and 1.7% respectively ... The group - whose brands also include Scalextric, Airfix and Corgi - said Barclays had agreed to a waiver this month and added that recent trading had been "encouraging" ... ....
European markets rise after reassurances from Fed on interest rates
Edit Belfast Telegraph 30 Mar 2016
European markets soared after US Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen eased concerns that an interest rate hike was around the corner ... Share Go To. The Cac 40 in France picked up more than 1.7%, while Germany's Dax joined the rally, climbing 1.6% ... The group - whose brands also include Scalextric, Airfix and Corgi - said Barclays had agreed to a waiver this month and added that recent trading had been "encouraging" ... ....
James May: ‘We are not in a race with Chris Evans’ Top Gear’
Edit The Guardian 27 Mar 2016
The TV presenter on filming his new Amazon motoring show, putting things back together for BBC4 – and doughnuts. @johnplunkett149 ... “The Amazon thing is going to be very complicated and it takes up a huge amount of time,” says May ... Facebook ... Just before Christmas May broke his arm when he slipped leaving a restaurant and, unable to do much with it in a sling, spent six weeks making an Airfix model, a 1/48th scale Grumman F4F Wildcat ... ....
The cuddly toys have got to go
Edit The Guardian 05 Mar 2016
Adrian Mourby’s children have all grown up and left home – leaving dozens of unwanted teddy bears, fluffy animals and bean-bag creatures behind. Time to serve them an eviction order. When our children left home they bequeathed us 70 squatters. They were all crammed into the loft and were, on the whole, very soft and cuddly ... By the time I was 18, with just Teddy and Bungee and a few Airfix kits to my name, I really wished she hadn’t been....
Bloody Paralyser – The Giant Handley Page Bombers of the First World War – Review by Mark Barnes
Edit World History Online 18 Feb 2016
I had the pleasure of reviewing Rob Langham’s first book some time back and now he has returned with a second. I am not kidding when I say it is really rather excellent ... The later V/1500 was even larger and more complicated. Plans to use them on raids to Berlin were cut short by the Armistice ... My previous contact with these monsters amounts to a disastrous attempt to build the Airfix 1/72nd scale kit of the O/400 when I was a lad ... ISBN ... ....
Hornby boss quits after third profit warning in five months
Edit The Guardian 15 Feb 2016
Richard Ames ran model railway maker for less than two years and had said it also risks breaching bank lending agreement ... Ames will leave with immediate effect after less than two years in the job. Roger Canham, the chairman, will run the company for the foreseeable future, Hornby said ... The company, which also makes Airfix kits, Corgi cars and Scalextric, suffered a series of setbacks as Ames tried to overhaul its operations ... ....
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