Derek A. Brand

From a 2012 obituary: Derek A. Brand spent most of his life designing and developing toys. He is considered the father of model motoring. He invented HO slot cars in the 1950s and Skittle-Bowl in the 1960s for Aurora Plastics in New York. Brand did product development in the 1970s for Tyco and Marvin Glass & Associates in Illinois, which was the largest toy development house in the world, and in the 1980s he…