MIM Bus Kits Comprise Polyurethane Resin Bodyshells & Chassis
M24 Volvo Ailsa Van Hool McArdle M32 Leyland Atlantean PDR1 East (OUT OF STOCK) £40.00 Lancs Flat Front (Stock) £40.00 All MIM Bus kits comprise polyurethane resin bodyshells & chassis With metal parts & printer glazing. Not suitable for children under 14 years of age. Bus kit are models not toys. Designed & made in the UK. The model bus kits in this range need building and painting M28 Leyland Leopard East Lancs . EL2000 Rebody (Stock) £30.00 Future kits M17 Volvo B10B Alexander Strider as operated by Yorkshire Rider M22 Dennis Dominator East Lancs as operated by North Western & Leicester Citybus. M4 Merc 811D Alexander AM as operated in London and by Stagecoach AEC Regent V Willowbrook 27foot as operated by Devon & General AEC Regent V or optional engine unit Willowbrook 30foot as operated by Make cheques / postal orders to: A’s Models of Bolton. Devon General – South Wales NBC. Postage & Packaging £3.00 per order Worldwide. Duple Britannia Bristol KSW And send orders to: A’s Models of Bolton, P.O. Box 514, Bolton, Lancs, BL1 5YD. Tel 01204 467961 or Mob 07788 106064 Online website shop accepts the following cards www.mirror-image-models.co.uk Mirror Image Models are produced by A’s Models of Bolton M1 Volvo B6BLE Wright Crusader M6 Volvo Olympian Northern M10 Bedford VAS V Duple M16 Setra S415HD (Out of Stock) £OUT OF STOCK Counties Lowheight Palatine (LATE Dominant Coach C29F (TBA) £TBA (Stock) £35.00 JUNE 2012) £40.00 M11 Volvo Citybus D10M Northern Counties (Stock) £40.00 M2 Leyland Atlantean PDR1 East M18 M.A.N.
Fleet Archive 2020 15 March 2020 Repaints last week included Optare Solo M890/Optare 628 (NK61 DBZ) into “Little Coasters” livery. Volvo B9TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 6004 (NK11 BHE) has also lost its branding for the “Red Arrows”, having been stripped of all vinyls, ahead of the introduction of new vehicles to this service in May. There were no fleet movements last week. 8 March 2020 Repaints last week included Mercedes Citaro 0350N/Mercedes Citaro 5278 (NK07 KPN) and 5279 (NK07 KPO) into the 2019 fleet livery. Scania N94UD/East Lancs OmniDekka 6143 (YN04 GKA) is no longer a float/reserve vehicle and now forms part of the main fleet allocation at Riverside. It has replaced former East Yorkshire Volvo B7TL/Plaxton President 6935 (X508 EGK) which has suffered defects uneconomical to repair. Float Optare Solo M890/Optare 636 (NK61 FMD) is now allocated to Percy Main to provide cover for the remaining “Little Coasters” branded Optare Solo repaints. Scania L94UB/Wright Solar 5226 (NK54 NVZ) has now been withdrawn from service at Riverside and, together with 5231 (NK55 OLJ), has transferred to East Yorkshire on temporary loan. 1 March 2020 The final coach to be repainted as part of the ongoing work into the new Northern Coaching unit is Scania K340EB/Caetano Levante 7098 (JCN 822) into Voyager livery. Notable is the allocation of the registration mark JCN822: this registration mark being allocated to Leyland Tiger/Plaxton Paramount 7038 (E116 KFV) from 1990 to 1997 whilst a part of the Northern fleet in Voyager livery. Scania N94UD/East Lancs OmniDekka 6143 (YN04 GKA) has transferred from Chester-le-Street to Riverside, as a float/reserve vehicle.
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Fleet Archive 2019 22 April 2019 There were no full repaints last week, but Optare Solo SR M925/Optare 673 (NK16 BXP) has been fitted with USB charging points at Thornton Bros, Ashington, and has now been returned to Go North East for repaint. “Hadrian’s Wall Country Bus” branded Optare Solo SR M890/Optare 635 (NK61 FJP) and 636 (NK61 FXD) have both returned to service at Hexham for this year’s operation of the seasonal AD122 service. 15 April 2019 Buses repainted last week included Optare Solo SR M925/Optare 672 (NK16 BXO) into the 2019 fleet livery. It was also fitted with USB charging points at Thornton Bros, Ashington. Scania K340EB/Caetano Levante 7094 (FJ08 KLF) has been sold to Ensign Bus Co., Purfleet. 8 April 2019 Buses repainted last week included Optare Solo SR M925/Optare 690 (NK66 CXF) into pink (subsequently receiving "indiGo Washington" branding). After two and a half years of development, the region’s largest bus operator, Go North East opened the doors to its brand new £3.5 million, state-of-the-art Hownsgill Depot in Consett, County Durham, on Friday 15 March 2019. The high-tech operation replaces the company’s Stanley Depot, which it operated from for nearly 100 years. Therefore; most vehicles based at Stanley transferred to Hownsgill on Sunday 7 April, the date from which the new depot commenced operations. In exchange for 5234 – 5237, ex-Go South Coast Mercedes Citaros 5482 – 5485 have transferred from Saltmeadows to Hownsgill. Likewise, Mercedes Citaro 5481 has transferred from Riverside to Hownsgill in exchange for Scania OmniCity 5238.
1 Volume 29.6 ISSN 0817-0193 May-June 2014 $9.00 rrp Australian Bus PANORAMA Registered by Australia Post—Publication No. PP 349069/00039 IN THIS ISSUE: A CENTENARY OF BOLTONS COACH AND BODY BUILDING FROM 1888 TO 1989 VICTORIAN STATE ELECTION 2014 O’CONNELL’S OF OMEO ADELAIDE’S NEW CITYFREE SERVICE 2 Three examples of how the body styling of both J.W. Boltons and Boltons Ltd changed over the decades. TOP: The last body style to be produced for Transperth is shown on (702) a 1988 Renault PR180.2 artic seen loading in St Georges Tce on a wet July morning in 1996. (Geoff Foster) CENTRE: This 1967 Leyland Tiger Cub was MTT 756 but is seen in later ownership by Horizons West. Similar bodies were built on Leopard and Panther chassis (Geoff Foster) BOTTOM: This 1952 Leyland Royal Tiger was built by Boltons for Metro Buses as (106) and is now preserved. (Bruce Tilley) 3 AUSTRALIAN BUS PANORAMA Vol 29 .6 May-June 2014 $9.00 rrp CONTENTS 4 A Centenary of Boltons Coach and body building, 1888-1989 8 Victorian State Election 2014 11 O’Connells of Omeo 12 Adelaide’s New Cityfree Service 14 National News Roundup 29 Pictorials 27 Fleet News COVER PHOTO: In their guises of Boltons Ltd and J.W. Bolton, this company bodied many of Perth’s government buses from the 1940s to the late 1980s. One example from 1983 is MTT (419) a J.W. Bolton Mercedes 0305 with later style rounded front. This photo was one in a series of postcard pictures which could be purchased from the Metropolitan Transport Trust in the 1980s.
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