In 1946, Alastair Robertson-Aikman started the Scale Model Equipment Company (SME) to build precision models for the engineering trade; by the 1950s, the U.K.-based operation was manufacturing ...

Hidden off Peace Street inside a no-man’s-land of weeds and gravel, a relic of Raleigh’s steel-rail past still rumbles and clangs like a steam-powered ghost. The turntable for the old Raleigh & Gaston ...