1939 
The LEGO Factory has 10 employees.
1937
Godtfred Kirk Christiansen starts creating models. He is 17 years old.
1936
Godtfred Kirk Christiansen (GKC) cuts Ole Kirk's motto “Only the best is good enough” and hangs it up in the workshop.
Selected Product News 1936 
Numskull Jack on the goat
1935
The business manufactures its firs LEGO wooden duck and markets “Kirk´s Sandgame” its first construction toy.
Selected Product News 1935
The LEGO Duck
Clothes hangers (Dagny Holm design)
1934
The company and its products now adopt the name LEGO, formed from the Danish words "LEg GOdt" ("play well"). Later, it is realised that in Latin the word means "I put together".
The firm has 6-7 employees.
1932
Ole Kirk Kristiansen, master carpenter and joiner, establishes his business in the village of Billund, Denmark. His firm manufactures stepladders, ironing boards, stools and wooden toys.
His son, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, starts working in the business at the age of 12.