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East Lancs Model Tramway Supplies Mail Order Catalogue SPRING 2017 East Lancs Model Tramway Supplies Contacting us We can be contacted at the address above, either by letter, email, phone or text. Mail order Catalogue Please note the following: ELMTS is not John’s main job so he can usually only be contacted at the following times: Evenings 6 – 9 pm. Answerphone messages will be dealt with as quickly as possible, NOW SPRING but please allow up to 28 days for a response to ANY ACCEPTING communication. You can leave a message on the landline or CARD 2017 mobile voicemail. PAYMENTS Postage: st Small items such as transfers please send 1 x Large 1 class stamp. All other items: Please add £3.50 per order, except large and heavy items which we will quote on ordering. Overseas postage usually charged at £10.00 TERMS & CONDITIONS Payment methods We accept the following payment methods: Cash, cheque, Postal order, paypal, card or bank transfer. Cheques should be made payable to East Lancs Model Tramway Supplies and in £ sterling, drawn on a British bank. Cash in £ sterling also accepted but sent through the post at your own risk. Paypal - Please ask us to send a payment request or you can pay direct to the paypal account at [email protected] Mr. J. D. Whitehouse We accept card payments via paypal here which is a mobile phone app. Please phone with card details or send with order. 14 Buttermere Road, Burnley, Lancashire, BB10 4HU All prices are correct at time of publication. We reserve the right Tel. 01282 436802 (evenings) to change prices without notice. Mob. 07840 707653 Refunds/exchange www.themodeltramshop.com Goods will be refunded or exchanged free of charge if they are email [email protected] faulty or damaged. http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Model-Tram-Shop Unwanted goods in mint condition may be returned within 14 days for refund, minus full cost of post and packing. After 14 days a 10% restocking and handling charge will be deducted Kits from the refund. Plastic kits We accept new and second hand items in part exchange for Hadfields/Blackpool Plastics orders, please contact for details. Please check availability before ordering. Some are no longer complete kits – Out of stock items please check with us. Items will be held in back order and dispatched when they HD Dreadnought £7.50 become available. Please note that some items may take several HV VAMBAC railcoach £7.50 months as they are ‘batch’ produced. HBO Open Boat without floor (for use with new £10.00 mechanism kit) We operate a mail order only service, though personal BOAT Motorised Open boat kit £55.00 callers are welcome by appointment only. Boat body with gantry and tower, seating Goods can be collected from my home address. units, cab ends, motorising kit BB As above, built motor unit £75.00 Plastic/resin kits NEW 00 scale These Standard kits use the bulk of the 1/76th or 4mm to 1 foot. 16.5mm gauge Hadfields Plastic’s parts with new, Code Product Price improved, resin parts. Ready to run HOS Enclosed Standard £10.00 BHK Bachmann Hong Kong Tram – various From HS Open balcony Standard £10.00 liveries have been produced and stocks £55.00 vary – contact for availability. Tower Trams Die Cast Please check stock before ordering Corgi OOC TT various £10.00 CB Blackpool Balloon – various liveries From Resin kits £15.00 PC Trams CBR Blackpool Brush Railcoach – various From PCR Blackpool EE Railcoach New stock liveries £15.00 2018 CF Feltham – LT, MET, LUT From BCB Blackpool Fat door Balloon £50.00 £15.00 PCM Blackpool fat door Balloon – Millennium £50.00 CCF Centre entrance Feltham - MET 331, From flat end Sunderland 100 £15.00 Mark Hughes EFE MHM Manchester Metrolink T68 EFE Leeds Horsfield – various liveries From MHA Aberdeen bogie streamliner £10.00 Heaton Park Tramway Atlas Editions PAR Manchester parcels car £35.00 ATL Various models, please contact for current From ELMTS stock £20.00 Edwardian Tramcar Collection. This new range consists of generic tram kits Contains 1 piece resin body, cabs, with a broad design which was common trucksides & plastic tower throughout the UK, rather than specific R680 Blackpool ex Towing EE Railcoach 680 Currently models. The kits are body only, you will Contains 1 piece resin body, cabs, unavailable need to source your own horse. trucksides & plastic tower a SHT Single deck Horse Tram £20.00 RBRU Blackpool Brush Railcoach NEW £35.00 DHT Double Deck Horse Tram £25.00 VERSION Available DWS Douglas Horse Tram winter saloon TBA Represents 70s to 90s version, as 621 June SE Steam Tram Engine TBA and 634 currently preserved in Blackpool. 2017 CH Early Electric converted Horse Tram TBA Contains 1 piece resin body, metal CLASSIC TRAMS trucksides, brass lifeguards and bumpers GLU Glasgow Standard ‘unobtrusive top cover’ £TBA & plastic tower. version RCENT Centenary 648, current condition. Currently Blackpool – I piece shell ‘kits’ Contains 1 piece resin body, cabs and unavailable RTOW Blackpool Towing railcoach (671 – 674, £25.00 floor. 677-680) CENTA Add on pack for 648; trucksides, optional £TBA Contains 1 piece resin body, cabs, metal cabs, tower, windscreen, lifeguards trucksides & plastic tower C642 Centenary 642. Current condition with Currently RMCW Blackpool MCW trailer £25.00 large rain strips and destination boxes. unavailable Contains 1 piece resin body, cabs & trucksides with instructions how to modify R40 Ex Blackpool & Fleetwood Box 40 (single Currently unavailable to either version. piece body) TRF Floor unit for Trailer, includes floor and £25.00 40AOP Add on pack for Box 40: dummy bogies. Replacement ends with headlamp, TRFP Combined Trailer and floor package £45.00 additional bulkhead, pair oil lamps, set 4 RPTW Blackpool Towing car 275 or 276. £25.00 1980s headlights, pair small destination (675/676) ea. boxes Contains 1 piece resin body, cabs, Blackpool resin kits trucksides, tower & base 2 for £45 R31 Blackpool ‘Marton’ 31 kit Currently 2 cars will make the prototype twin set unavailable which consisted of 275/276. RTW1 Any Twin set motor and trailer £45.00 R702 Ex Blackpool Balloon 702 KIT £20.00 R611 Blackpool modified ‘coffin’ railcoach 618 TBA R717 Blackpoll Balloon 717 £20.00 NEW R700 Blackpool Balloon 700 KIT £20.00 Contains 1 piece resin body, trucksides R701 Blackpool Balloon 701 KIT £20.00 and plastic tower. R723 Blackpool balloon 723 KIT £20.00 R678/9 Blackpool ex Towing EE Railcoach £30.00 C711 Blackpool Balloon 711, current condition £20.00 678/679 later version with hopper ROMO Blackpool OMO NEW VERSION £35.00 windows Contains 1 piece resin body, plastic Tramads towerand trucksides BCG Blackpool round crest (green) set 4 £1.50 Non-Blackpool (kits and 1 piece) BTW Blackpool Tower and Waves set 4 £1.50 RGG Liverpool/Glasgow Green Goddess KIT £NCA 31T Blackpool 31 livery transfer £5.00 To be replaced with 1 piece resin shell 147T Blackpool 147 livery transfer £3.50 R706 Princess Alice 706 KIT £25.00 BALT Blackpool Balcony Standard livery £3.50 RSB Swansea and Mumbles Tram, one piece TBA transfer body with upper deck, platforms etc. Balloon adverts – self adhesive (2 per R245 Liverpool 245 current condition. 1 piece £45.00 pack) resin shell, platforms, stairs, upper deck. BA1 Blackpool Hypermarket/Coral Social £1.50 The one piece resin kits are also Clubs available in a number of finished BA2 Comedy express/Viva connections £1.50 options: BA3 CIS/Fleetwood Pier £1.50 - Cleaned up and primed white or BA4 Milady Toffee/Blackpool Zoo £1.50 grey BA5 Empire Pools/Milady Toffee £1.50 - Painted and glazed body only BA6 North Pier Shows/Harry Worth £1.50 - Painted and glazed with static or BA7 Skipton Saving Schemes £1.50 motorised chassis. BA8 Maggie Mays - T side £1.50 * Contact us for livery options and prices. BA9 Louis Tussauds – T side £1.50 Whitemetal/pewter kits BA10 Travelcard £1.50 ELMTS Blackpool Roof box adverts – contains AB Aberdeen Standard – please check £40.00 4 panels and ends availability RA1 Romika/Slalem Lager £2.00 Mark Hughes RA2 Radio Rentals/Pleasure flights £2.00 MM Manchester Metrolink £POA RA3 Premium Bonds £2.00 MBC Conversion kit for Blackpool balloon – flat £11.00 RA4 Revolution/Jenks Bar £2.00 ends Twin set style RA5 Selixine paints/Rumbelows £2.00 ELMTS RA6 Embassy/Coop £2.00 765 Manchester 765 - check availability £35.00 RA7 Premium Bonds/Join the Lamb’s Navy £2.00 Brass kits RA8 Players No.6 £2.00 Mark Hughes RA9 Leather & Suede Centre £2.00 Also contain whitemetal/pewter parts RA10 Carlsberg £2.00 MJ Blackpool 761 £45.00 RA11 Bond Hotel/Toyland £2.00 MJ2 Blackpool 762 £45.00 RA12 Hounds Hill/Willys £2.00 MHWS MER Winter Saloon £38.00 RA13 Blackpool Zoo £2.00 Adverts & transfers RA14 Lytham Road Market £2.00 PB Purple flexity style pattern for fat door £5.00 Crests etc. Waterslide transfers Balloons LCT Leeds crests with 2 sets legal lettering £2.50 pr LIVMT Liverpool ‘Marks era’ prewar arched £2.00 some work before release. Please enquire crests/lettering on green background. for current availability. SHT Sheffield 74 £2.50 PCT Manchester parcels car £2.50 Brush Railcoach STT Stockport crests and destinations £1.50 AAJ Joseph £15.00 GLVT Glasgow crests, fleet names, destinations, AAB 626 Belles Cuisine £15.00 adverts etc – please enquire for current AAW 632 Wilson’s Brewery £15.00 availability. AAK 633 Kodak Brush car advert £15.00 ABVT Aberdeen crests, destinations, adverts etc AAI 623 ICI £15.00 – please enquire for current availability. AAS 623 Sequins £15.00 Stockport 5 adverts etc – current condition AAT 630 Tussauds £15.00 Gateshead 5 livery (body sides and AASH 627 Shoemarket £15.00 adverts) AASG 622 Starr Gate Karting £15.00 Blackpool & Fleetwood Box 40 livery AAR 631 Wall’s Romero £15.00 147T Blackpool 147 FTS adverts £3.00 AAK2 630 Karting 2000 £15.00 245T Transfer set for Liverpool 245 £TBA AAA 622 Allinsons £15.00 ALL OVER ADVERTS AAI 621 Interflora £15.00 Most of these adverts were originally AABC 634 Borough Centenary £15.00 created many years ago and marketed AAAV 630 Avalanche £15.00 elsewhere.
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