Almost every Tuesday since 1977, a club now numbering about a dozen people - usually men, usually older in years - have met in a church hall in London's Wood Green and done their best to keep an old ...

IT was once the must-have toy for any car-loving youngster. And now Scalextric is making a comeback with young and old taking up the game on Tyneside. Electric slot car racing was first made popular ...

AMBITIOUS plans to turn a North-East town onto the thrills and spills of slot-car racing - and boost manufacturing and engineering skills in schools - are under way. The idea is to make Darlington the ...

A Scalextric fan is close to completing his dream 97ft-long racing circuit. The Presto Park Slot Club of Norfolk has moved several times since it was founded in 1961 and its previous longest track was ...

City F1 fans are being asked to start their engines as a new Scalextric club opens at a city centre library. Plumstead Road Library will welcome slot cars and drivers of all shapes and sizes as the ...

Their legacies are globally familiar - although there's a passing chance that one of their names might not be. Fred Francis did not create the Silver Ghost, the Model T or the Mini, but he had a ...

A small selection of Scalextric cars and boxed sets appeared among the more usual Triang trains and Dinky cars at the October 12 auction held by classic model specialists Trains Planes and Automobiles ...

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Scalextric club's 97ft racing circuit in Norfolk The BBC's Mike Liggins has been to visit Mike Harvey who showed him the latest track which has been under construction since the club moved to its new ...