David Collins read this magazine and learned about the workings of an automotive master brake cylinder. He used this knowledge to remove the bleeder valve on his father's car, causing it to crash (14, 15, 27). The fictional Mechano Magazine was likely inspired by the real-life Meccano Magazine published by Meccano Ltd., a toy manufacturing company based in Liverpool, England, started by Frank Hornby, inventor of the construction toy Meccano which he originally called "Mechanics Made Easy".