Daniel Postgate
Smallfilms is a company that has made "Pingwings" , "Pogles' Wood" , "Noggin the Nog" , "Ivor the Engine" , "Clangers" and "Bagpuss" , and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s , and on ITV from 1959 to the present day . 
<triplet> Ivor the Engine <subj> 1959 <obj> start time