October 2014 - News
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CORGI
MODELS SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE Week commending 10th November Week commending 24th November Friday 31st October 2014 |
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EFE
SUBSCRIBER OFFER MODEL - PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRODUCTION VERSION Courtesy of EFE click on the links below to view photographs of the production version of the Subscriber offer model announced last week: 27316 Leyland TD1 - East Kent Photograph1 CLICK HERE Photograph2 CLICK HERE CONFIRMED RELEASES FROM
EFE Thursday 30th October 2014 |
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RELEASE OF CORGI CLASSICS MODEL I can confirm that the following model has now been released: CC25910 Routemaster London Transport Route 11 CLICK HERE Tuesday 28th October 2014 |
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EFE 7TH
SUBSCRIBER NEWSLETTER The latest Subscriber newsletter arrived today and has details of a new Subscriber only offer model: 27316 Leyland TD1 - East Kent CLICK HERE Registration number: JG 1622 Destination: Faversham. The model is priced at £30.00 inc Postage to UK, £34.50 Europe and £35.50 Rest of World The models will be ready to mail out at the end of this month One new model is also
listed: CORGI CLASSICS MODEL CC25910
ROUTEMASTER LONDON TRANSPORT Monday 27th October 2014 |
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CORGI
MODELS SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE Corgi have advised that the following models are now scheduled for release: Week commending 10th November Week commending 24th November CLICK HERE to visit the Gallery pages and view two photographs of the bus represented by this model. EFE MODELS SCHEDULED FOR
RELEASE Friday 24th October 2014 |
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CONFIRMED
RELEASE FROM OXFORD DIECAST Thursday 23rd October 2014 |
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EFE
AMENDMENTS TO TWO MODELS Further to my News of Friday, I was made aware of a couple of errors in relation to two of the models by visitors to this site, which I brought to the attention of EFE and they have this afternoon sent me updated pre-production photographs of the two models: 31708 RMC Routemaster Coach - Green Line 36204 RMA Routemaster Coach & Trailer -
B.E.A. Sovereign Holidays CONFIRMED RELEASE OF
JOTUS.COM/LONDON BUS MUSEUM COMMISSIONED MODEL Subject to availability any stock that remained after the event will be offered for sale on the Museums on-line shop CLICK HERE Monday 20th October 2014 |
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NEW
MODELS ANNOUNCED BY EFE EFE have announced six new models: 14410 Leyland National Short 1 Door - Greater Glasgow
CLICK HERE 14902 Leyland National MKII Short - Ribble N.B.C
CLICK HERE 20649 Plaxton Pointer Dart - Arriva South London
CLICK HERE 31708 RMC Routemaster Coach - Green Line
CLICK HERE (NEW PHOTOGRAPH ADDED 20TH OCTOBER - SEE ABOVE) 36204 RMA Routemaster Coach & Trailer - B.E.A. Sovereign Holidays
CLICK HERE 39001 Foden S24 Short 2 Axle Tipper - Limmer & Trinidad
CLICK HERE Friday 17th October 2014 |
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NEW
BACHMANN EFE MODEL ANNOUNCED Bachmann have announced another Bachmann exclusive EFE model, click on the links below to view photographs of the model courtesy of EFE: 38118 Bristol VRT - Eastern
National The Bachmann website gives the following information regarding the model: "Our latest EFE item, E38118 Bristol VRT - Eastern National, depicts a well-known Express Bus Service to London. E38118 is priced at an RRP of £32.75. Our model depicts SMS 31H, which operated out of the Wood Green (WG) garage and ran on fleet number 3005. This vehicle is shown operating on the popular limited stop route 400, which ran between the Essex seaside town of Southend and London Victoria. There was a mixed reception to the rear-engined Bristol VRT when it was first introduced. Midland Scottish had purchased a number of the early vehicles but found them troublesome. They returned these buses to Bristol for improvements but they were still not impressed with performance, so in 1971 they arranged to swap 15 of these 'troublesome' VRT's, with Eastern National for a similar quantity of Lodekkas. Once in service at their new Essex home, they became reliable and popular vehicles. Many of them were to retain the blue and cream colours of Midland Alexander, which made them a distinctive and attractive addition to the Eastern National fleet. The plain white panels on the vehicle are due to a peculiar feature of Scottish fleets at this time. Where adverts could be featured they instead carried body colour cream blocks, perhaps with the intentions of putting adverts over them at a future date, though they seldom ran with any advertising displayed. When the VRT's moved to Eastern National this quirk was carried over and the new operator also chose to run them without adverts". EFE MODELS SCHEDULED FOR
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NEW
MODELS ANNOUNCED BY OXFORD DIECAST Oxford Diecast have announced the following new models, no further details are given at this time: 1:148th N-GAUGE 1:76th Gift Sets Listed under their
Showtime range Sunday 12th October 2014 |
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CORGI
MODELS SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE Corgi have advised that the following models are scheduled for release: Week commencing 20th
October 2014 Week commending 10th November Friday 10th October 2014 |
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NEW N-GAUGE MODELS ANNOUNCED
BY BT-MODELS BT-Models have announced 6 new n-gauge models. No details or photographs are available at this time other than all are shown as a 4th Quarter 2014 release: NAN003 Leyland Atlantean PR - London Country NBC NAN004 Leyland Atlantean PR - Ribble NBC NAN005 Leyland Atlantean PR - Tyne & Wear PTE NB003 Duple Dominant II Coach - Ribble NB004 Duple Dominant II Coach - Grey Green NB005 Duple Dominant II Coach - Maidstone & District CONFIRMED RELEASES FROM
EFE Thursday 9th October 2014 |
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CONFIRMED
RELEASE OF TWO BACHMANN COMMISSIONED EFE MODELS I can confirm that the following two models have now been released: 16136 Leyland PD2 Highbridge - C.I.E Southern Ireland Photograph 1 CLICK HERE Photograph 2 CLICK HERE 16137 Leyland PD2 Highbridge - C.I.E. Southern Ireland Photograph 1 CLICK HERE Photograph 2 CLICK HERE PRE-PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHS
OF OXFORD DIECAST MODELS 76PAN001 Plaxton Panorama -
Southdown CLICK
HERE Wednesday 8th October 2014 |
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PRESS AND MEDIA RELEASE FOR THE LONDON BUS PRESERVATION TRUST LTD TRANSPORTFEST EVENT AT BROOKLANDS ON SUNDAY 19TH OCTOBER 2014
The London Bus Museum’s close of season event, Transportfest, is on Sunday 19th October between the hours of 10.00am and 5.00pm. The theme this year is World War 1 and we will be having an unprecedented line up of period vehicles in the Paddock outside the Brooklands Club House. In addition to the Chocolate Express(1924), S464 and the Tilling Stevens(1922), along with our own D142(1925), we are delighted to have joining us from the London Transport Museum their Battlebus from 1910 and used in the 1914-18 War. The appearance of this bus will really help in reminding us of the anniversary we are commemorating this year. On August 3rd in the London Bus Museum, the commemorative plaques of those who worked for AEC and who died in two World Wars were dedicated and now form part of our permanent display. In addition to the Museum displays in Cobham Hall, we will be running our horse bus rides (additional charge), with other attractions including a jazz band, Punch and Judy shows and a roundabout for our younger visitors, rides on vintage, classic and modern buses and of course the many stallholders who also attend this event. Catering for all tastes is also available on site. Engineering works that weekend means that there are no train services to Weybridge, so our 462 bus service will meet the railway replacement buses at Weybridge Station and in addition we will be running extra services in the morning and late afternoon to and from Leatherhead Station, the nearest operating rail station to Brooklands. And as we near the end of the Year of the Bus and RT75 and RM60, our own RT1 will be making an excursion out in the afternoon for which there will be an additional charge for those who wish to travel on this iconic vehicle. Further details are available on www.londonbusmuseum.com where you will find details of the entry charges to the Brooklands site. We look forward to seeing you at our event with so many important historic events to remember. Simon Douglas Lane, Event Organiser. CLICK HERE to view a copy of the Show flyer. Please note this is a large file of approximately 500KB so may take sometime to download depending on the speed of your connection. Monday 6th October 2014 |
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GALLERY
PAGE UPDATE I have added a photograph of Dennis Dart SLF2 - Plymouth Citybus R123 OFJ (the actual vehicle represented by EFE model 36708) to the Dennis Dart Gallery page. Photograph courtesy of David Smith. To view the photograph CLICK HERE Sunday 5th October 2014 |
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PHOTOGRAPHS
OF A COUPLE OF RECENT ACQUISITIONS Click on the links below to view a couple of recent acquisitions. One released a few weeks ago and the other approximately six years ago: B-T Models Oxford Diecast Saturday 4th October 2014 |
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CORGI CLASSICS
MODEL SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE Corgi has advised that the following model is scheduled for release week commencing 20th October: CC25910 Routemaster London Transport Route 11 CLICK HERE Friday 3rd October 2014 |
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SHOWBUS
REPORT I have just uploaded my Showbus 2014 report. The page can be accessed via the Featured Events page or by CLICKING HERE. I apologise for the delay in publishing the report but I have been extremely busy since the Showbus event. NEW MODELS ANNOUNCED BY
OXFORD DIECAST 1:76th Scale No further details are given for either model. Thursday 2nd October 2014 |
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EFE
MODELS SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE EFE have advised today that the following models are scheduled for release next week (Week commencing 6th October): 16537 Leyland MCW Atlantean - Wallasey Corporation CLICK HERE 20456 Bristol VR3 First Eastern National CLICK HERE 34207 AEC Weymann RLH Midland General CLICK HERE
PHOTOGRAPHS
OF SOME RECENTLY RELEASED OXFORD DIECAST MODELS 76COM002 Commer Commando -
BOAC 76MJ008 Morris J van -
Southdown PHOTOGRAPHS OF RM60 MODELS Click on the links below to
view photographs of the Routemaster Association RM60 special Oxford Diecast
model: Wednesday 1st October 2014 |
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October 2014 - News |
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