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Gosling on the High Street

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Ray Gosling looks at men of commerce who combined profits with principles. 2: Frank Hornby and the "Half-Inch-Hole"
Frank Hornby was to educating engineers what Nintendo is to computing children. -Hornby's genius was the "half-inch-hole" of Meccano, Dinky toys and clockwork trains. But unlike the playing cards of Japan, Hornby's heirs didn't make it into the electronic age. Producer Julia Shaw

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Ray Gosling
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Frank Hornby
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Frank Hornby
Producer:
Julia Shaw

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