Hi Numbum Phil when I looked at that pic of the Bus I thought it was one of those kits but blow me down !!! That is incredible ! A true modeller !! It looks the business !! Show us some more of your models !!
Regards Jimski
The bus being 12ins must bring the scale to about 1/25 or there abouts. Phill you will have all these bus spotters joining trucknet to see these models. Eddie.
Thanks for the comments. Most of the models I have made jimksi I have given away and a few that I lent to people I have not had back. I will see if i can find any photos. Although I drove lorries from 21 until parole at 65 I must admit that with a friend I do own a couple of old buses. They are fun to go around in with the room to move about and chat. One single deck chassis was new in 1934 with a 6 cyl petrol engine when the speed limit was 20 mph. Fitted with a new body and 5 pot gardner after the war it still has the original overdrive gearbox halfway down the chassis and I have had 55 mph out of it.
I have heard drivers on here talk of 1960,s trucks with crash gearboxes, they should try and drive my 1940 decker with a 5 pot gardner and no power steering and they would find out what a crash box is.
Upper deck passengers have given me enthusiastic reports of women sunbathing starkers in the garden behind a tall hedge and a double decker going past must be a big shock. My biggest hate of buses is to many windows to clean.
Me doing a lap of Castle Combe racetrack with the fully loaded 1940 decker.
Cheers Phil.
Hey irish lorries,hows your model going, has it gone in the bin smashed to bits yet 
seth 70:
Hey irish lorries,hows your model going, has it gone in the bin smashed to bits yet
The cab has but still have the chassis will have to start again 
Hi Numbum I bet that’s fun driving that Bus ! Crash box blimey that’ll take some getting used too after a synchromesh box.
Lovely models too, are you still build them or is the bus your pass time now !!?
R Jim
Jimski:
Hi Numbum I bet that’s fun driving that Bus ! Crash box blimey that’ll take some getting used too after a synchromesh box.
Lovely models too, are you still build them or is the bus your pass time now !!?
R Jim
Hello Jim,
Bought that bus back in 1973 as a van with no roof and double doors in the back. Took years to rebuild it. Been retired 6 years and do not know how I ever had time to work. Quite a few others like that I imagine. Worked on old vehicles most Sundays ever since. Just got a Leyland 600 engine back together and started to strip an AEC 7.7.
Made the green bus a year ago and done nothing since. Also do some paintings and have some to do for the last member of the Febry family.
Found a few photos taken with an average camera of two models I have not got anymore. Also one of their construction.
The trams are three of the fourteen trams I have on a working O scale layout. The poles for the wires are not finished or painted.
Happy modeling Jim.
Hi Phil outstanding models ! Love the trams layout ! I’ve herd people say that before about “don’t know how I found the time to go to work” must be nice to have the time to enjoy what your doing ! You sound a busy man !!
R Jim.
hey phil excellent models love the tram 2
Hi Phil,
Brilliant models,wasn’t LHY 949 the prototype Lodekka ?
Jimski, Great model of Chippy’s IVECO as usual well done.
Regards
Richard
Heres some of the the more recent ones I’ve done, all 1:24 scale:
Fantastic!!!
MaggieD:
Hi Phil,Brilliant models,wasn’t LHY 949 the prototype Lodekka ?
Jimski, Great model of Chippy’s IVECO as usual well done.
Regards
Richard
Hi Richard,
LHY 949 was the prototype Lodekka. Two were built and it was the first chassis with a drop centre rear axle allowing the overall body height to be lowered. They had two propshafts to clear the lower deck gangway. They suffered from broken halfshafts. At least this was discovered by running the prototypes and a man with a slide rule and a ■■■ packet designed the production models with a single propshaft.
hi chaps, just wondering what the flavour is at the moment with the TMW webiste? can’t get on it as it says service un available? i take it all is well with the organisation and it is a maintenance issue?
thanks, harryvr6
Consetbell,those models are phenomenal in detail and finish,almost indistinguishable from the real article,congratulations. 
David
More of Consett Bells handy work.
Bewick:
More of Consett Bells handy work.
…at least CB can spell Dennis!!!
David
harryvr6:
hi chaps, just wondering what the flavour is at the moment with the TMW webiste? can’t get on it as it says service un available? i take it all is well with the organisation and it is a maintenance issue?thanks, harryvr6
Yes I noticed this too its been done a while now