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| Next expected model releases |
21st April 2006 |
The following models are due to be released during the week ending the 29th April.
16127 Highbridge Leyland PD2 - Hants & Dorset
29610 Leyland Olympian - Metrobus
30603 AEC Renown (Type A) - East Yorkshire
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| Source : Jim's Diecast Model Buses. |
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| More specials for the LT Museum |
19th April 2006 |
A mailing has been sent to standing order customers by London's Transport Museum, it contains details of two new commissioned EFE models and mentions that a new EFE Bus Set (No.14) is due to been announced in the mid Summer.
The first of the commissioned models is due in the late summer and will feature RTL501 wearing a red livery with cream upper deck windows and carrying destination blinds for route 51. The second model will be a Tilling's Transport Bristol RELH coach, it is hoped that this will be the first of a series of model coaches reflecing Victoria Coach Station and London's Coach heritage.
The same mailing also contains details of a prize draw for standing order customers, the winners will be given the chance to purchase an example of the rare Arriva Route 159 RM with Thank You Routemaster adverts, this was the special version produced for Arriva staff. 24 examples of 15635D (newsletter refers to it as 15638D which I believe is a mistake) are up for grabs with the draw to be made in July.
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| Photographs of some of the forthcoming new castings |
16th April 2006 |
I've been sent some photographs taken at the recent Cobham Bus Museum Open Day which show some of the forthcoming truck castings and the RELH Coaches. The pictures are a little on grainy side but most of the models were displayed on revolving turntables in a glass case making photography somewhat difficult. Please note all these photographs show pre-production samples.
The articulated tanker trailer
Ultra short tipper & dropside bodies
Ford Thames Trader with Luton body
Various versions of the Bristol RELH coach
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| Three new models released |
13th April 2006 |
The following models have now been released by EFE and should be available from all the normal outlets.
18610 Open Top Bristol VRT - New Forest Tour (Solent Blue Line)
29407 Bristol RELH Dual Purpose Bus - Oxford South Midland
30703 AEC Renown (Type B) - South Wales Transport
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| Models due to be released next week |
6th April 2006 |
The following models are due to be released by EFE next week.
18610 Open Top Bristol VRT - New Forest Tour (Solent Blue Line)
29407 Bristol RELH Dual Purpose Bus - Oxford South Midland
30703 AEC Renown (Type B) - South Wales Transport
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| Source : Jim's Diecast Model Buses. |
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| EFE Subscribers Newsletter |
1st April 2006 |
The latest newsletter has arrived this morning from EFE.
The RELH adjustments mentioned in the previous newsletter have now been completed and the final moulds have been released for production to start. The first release will be a United Automobiles Motor Services vehicle in their olive & cream coach livery.
The news patterns for the ultra short tipper and dropside trucks and the new articulated tanker trailer are complete and the tooling is now ready to progress into the mould tooling stage of development. The first releases of these items are expected at the end of the year.
There are no details of any new 1:76th scale models but details of the next two 1:24th scale DMS models are given as follows. |
| 99102 - 1:24th Scale DMS |
| Operator | London Transport |
| Registration | MLK 420L |
| Fleet No. | DMS420 |
| Routes & Destinations | 131 Wimbledon Station
131 Clapham Common Old Town
213 New Malden Police Station
213A Kingston
285 Heathrow Airport Central |
| Adverts | Fares Fair (all adverts) |
| Livery | Red with yellow front doors and white roundels |
| Notes | Model depicts a vehicle based at Norbition Garage and carries Running number NB 71 |
| Expected | June 2006 |
| 99103 - 1:24th Scale DMS |
| Operator | London Transport |
| Registration | MLK 591L |
| Fleet No. | DMS591 |
| Routes & Destinations | 108B Crystal Palace
124 Forest Hill
124A Bexley Hospital
185 Victoria
Private Hire |
| Adverts | Daltons Weekly |
| Livery | Red with yellow front doors |
| Notes | Model depicts a vehicle based at Catford Garage and carries Running number TL 161 |
| Expected | July / August 2006 |
There are also details of the two commissioned models being produced for this years Cobham Bus Museum Open Day & Vehicle Gathering which takes place on the 2nd April. It should be noted that the models will only be available from the Museum's Marquee at the Wisley Airfield site and not the Museum shop as indicated in the Newsletter. Further details about the event can be found on the London Bus Preservation Trust website www.lbpt.org. The models will be strictly limited to two of each per visitor to the event.
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| 28003B - Single Door Daimler Fleetline DMS (with Open Bustle) |
| Operator | Ensignbus (London Transport fleet names) |
| Registration | THM682M |
| Fleet No. | DF1682 |
| Route No. | 499 |
| Destination | To be confirmed |
| Adverts | Cobham Bus Museum Open Day 2006 |
| Livery | Red with cream window surrounds and silver roof |
| Notes | Commissioned by the London Bus Preservation Trust and available at the April 2006 Museum Open Day. |
| Expected | 2nd April 2006 |
| 27209B - Leyland Titan TD1 with Open Staircase |
| Operator | London Transport |
| Registration | KP 3404 |
| Fleet No. | TD153 |
| Route No. | - |
| Destination | West Croydon |
| Adverts | Whitsunday Race Meeting at Brooklands |
| Livery | Green with light green window surrounds. Light green front and rear roof sections with silver roof centre |
| Notes | Commissioned by the London Bus Preservation Trust and available at the April 2006 Museum Open Day. |
| Expected | 2nd April 2006 |
| The OOC Zone |
1st April 2006 |
After many requests I finally bowed to the pressure and have put together a new site covering the Corgi OOC range of bus and coach models, during the building of this new site updates to EFE Zone site have been reduced somewhat, hopefully now the major work is complete I'll be able to devote more time to this site once again.
The OOC Zone is a joint venture with Peter Harrison who kindly supplied virtually all the model information. I only added the advert information I had at hand and then converted his database into web pages.
The new site can be found at www.ooczone.co.uk or just click the button on the left. I intend to expand the present Fleet Focus section to cover the relevent OOC models in the coming months.
Regards
Kevin Ellis
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