<P> By 2000 Meccano France was faltering and was bought out in May 2000 by the Japanese toy company Nikko, who continue to manufacture Meccano sets in France and China, although very different from the Meccano originally manufactured by the Binns Road factory . </P> <P> In 2013 Meccano was acquired by Spin Master . </P>

In 1925 meccano ltd a british toy company produced the first of these toys