Purbeck Capital Partners seals deal for business and property rights of toy with model railway maker ...

Hornby, the model train maker, has sold off its slot car racing brand Scalextric to a US drinks tycoon for £20m.

Hornby has owned Scalextric since 1968, though the brand itself dates back even further. Invented by Fred Francis, the first ...

Model railways company Hornby has agreed to sell iconic slot car racing brand Scalextric in a deal worth £20 million. The brand, which is nearly 70 years old, is se ...

Many people of a certain vintage will have fond memories of playing with Scalextric, pulling a trigger and seeing your slot car fly around, or all-too-often off, the track. But disappointingly, the ...

The experimental work of companies like B-Reel turns up all sort of interesting projects. This one particularly caught our eye – Scalextric slot car racing powered by your mind. Using a Mindwave ...

Scalextric ARC AIR app expands game-play and adds wireless vibrating controllers. Slot car racing is seeing something of a resurgence with new innovations like Anki Overdrive and remote control ...

A slot car racing club welcomed nearly 150 visitors to a recent open day. East Devon Slot Racing Club held the event at Awliscombe Parish Hall on Saturday, February 28, where Scalextric fans and ...

That blur on the right is a car racing into the frame. But look around the rest of the image and you’ll see the area is littered with extra hardware. [Matthew], [Doug], and [Barry] have been hard at ...

Scalextric slot car racing has been around for ages, but like so many other toys these days it has had to adapt its business model to keep going. Gone are the days when all they needed to do to garner ...