Eccentric automaton artworks on show at Warwickshire gallery

Scores of mechanical toys include a tiny Fabergé elephant owned by the QueenDespite competition from scores of rival mechanical toys and artworks, including a crow that reads all the rejection letters received by one artist, and a tiny Fabergé elephant owned by the Queen, when the bell rings every staff member, volunteer, curator and visitor within earshot drifts towards the gallery at Compton Verney where an eccentric masterpiece creaks and whirs back to life.Rowland Emett, the ca