dave re the ev model it is now confirmed that the wedding bus ev will appear in donnybrook in september it to would make a nice bus for cmnl to do if they want
to alongside the fleet standard ev
martin
martin
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New Britbus Model - R706
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Don E Brook |
North Weald London Rally 6th July 2008 | #22 | ||
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Posts: 121 27/06/2008 00:34:58 Full Member |
I was wondering if any of the modellers are going to North Weald Bus Rally , indeed non modellers also are very welcome there... A good Rally with most of the
Southeast London area represented there and Creativemaster, Britbus, EFE and Corgi will all be there.Loads of model stalls and books. pictures etc.
Plenty of REAL bus parts for sale also... In passing I rallied R 788 (OIK 984) there on 16th June 1988 on the same day as the Dublin Millenium Rally with Routemaster RML 903 in Dublin for the occasion and guess what ?.............................................THAT WAS TWENTY YEARS AGO. doesn't time fly chaps Final details going to EFE for start R 427 in Green on route 23 DRIMNAGH - BALLYBOUGH fingers crossed as Frank Joyce is not the quickest !! Don E, Brook |
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Posts: 907 29/06/2008 17:12:38 |
Don, you were enquiring after some information on a Route 78 destination. Here's a portion of a newspaper clipping from January 1953 of R393 operating the
new Ballyfermot service.
The full text reads: GRATTAN BRIDGE KINGSBRIDGE INCHICORE ROAD SARSFIELD ROAD BALLYFERMOT UPPER Hope this helps, regards, Barry Millar |
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How about these destinations for EFE DonE Brook? | #24 | ||
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Posts: 16 30/06/2008 21:18:13 |
With regards the wedding bus as a model, this is not as straight forward as you might think. There is a bride who modelled for Dublin bus for the advert and we
are unsure how to approach the HR / Head Office to enquire about clearance. To my knowledge Stagecoach have used students to promote bus tickets and used these
as mega rears and adverts and I was told that once the advert is on a Stagecoach bus it becomes their property and can be reproduced in a scaled model version
without any problems but the wedding bus in Dublin Bus colours would officially be the first time an advert has been used on a modern Irish model. Let us hope
the same rules apply to Dublin bus as Stagecoach when scaling down to a model. THe old advert that appeared on RV, RH, and KD wedding buses are proving very
difficult to get hold of. HR do not have records of them even tho they are DB adverts! I will be pursuing other people for the ads. The RV / RH wedding advert
would be a proposal for Britbus
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Posts: 267 03/07/2008 11:49:35 Full Member |
i have the kd366 wedding bus ads side on
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r706 pics | #27 | ||
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Posts: 268 03/07/2008 11:56:12 Full Member |
well guys dave o connor has given me pictures of r706 to show to you
remember these are pre production shots and the actual produced model will have changes made to it which were advised when the bus was first seen .please try not to be to critical about it it is shown with r 701 for comparison martin 
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Posts: 534 03/07/2008 12:22:24 |
Thanks for those lovely shots of the old destination boxes showing just how informative they were and how far backwards we have gone in terms of destination
displays today.
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Posts: 918 03/07/2008 13:34:26 |
I just hope to goodness we don't see 'Ballvoqan' on the final product.
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Posts: 269 03/07/2008 17:55:06 Full Member |
that is one of the errors that was pointed out altough it could be real if the scroll was slightly off like on most real buses
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Posts: 15 03/07/2008 18:28:04 |
have we got a release date for R706????
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Posts: 122 03/07/2008 23:13:40 Full Member |
Wyth & Dublinbus
Thanks all for the information on the 22/23 Drimnagh routes info. I have sent a selection to Frank at EFE and hopefully he will get back to me BEFOREHAND, that said, he is not renowned for doing that and tends to produce with ballsups,,,eg. the EFE Capetown top from deck windows, vents, missing despite four warnings... Creative Master and Danny Chan ALWAYS (nearly) gets it right, Brit/Irbus also do ok but regrettably the last bus was not up to standards ... This time we are posting to make sure it is at least 95% right, we won't please all !!! Martin posted kindly for me the pictures of a PROTOTYPE model With Faults and we know, the colour is a bit reddish on the orange stripe, the 'Dublin Bus' logo too feint, DB castles slanted !,the blind is going to have a "Y" instead of a V..we thought that this would be a nice Dub Bus idiocyncrachy but already some are complaining... As pictured one could not see the tail on the Y and we thought leave it as the blind is driver incorrectly set... but no we will bow to your wishes and it will be as correct display... anymore detail from the fans would be appreciated...we do our best Don E.Brook |
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Posts: 123 03/07/2008 23:17:20 Full Member |
Gsi 345,
Hopefully by the end of July, Britbus are here this weekend at North Weald and David R & myself will be takling to Benny at Ruislip on Saturday to iron out the last detail..... regarding the defects detailed in the previous posting, so purists please bear with us...in anticipation Don E. Brook |
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Posts: 404 04/07/2008 13:23:39 |
mhoey wrote: If the scroll was slightly off wouldn't the tail of the "g" also be missing? |
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Posts: 272 04/07/2008 21:45:06 Full Member |
very true
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Posts: 124 04/07/2008 21:49:33 Full Member |
Tarabuses,
It is like I said many times now.....this is a demo model.. and we are always on the lookout for model master builders and artists !!! Pay is grim but if you fancy your chances >>>>> |
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Tarabuses |
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Posts: 406 05/07/2008 16:23:28 |
Don E Brook wrote: No, no, you have taken me up incorrectly. I was just responding to Martin's observation that the scroll could be set incorrectly not criticising a pre production version of the model, when you had already stated that the error was to be corrected. |
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Posts: 686 21/07/2008 14:36:02 |
The R706 Model seems to be avalable on the Hattons of Liverpool Website now.
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Posts: 410 22/07/2008 13:18:13 |
Excellent news.
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Posts: 282 22/07/2008 13:46:31 Full Member |
yes have seen the pics
link below http://www.ehattons.com/stockdetail.aspx?sid=24569&img=5#imageblock its 30 pounds sterling most of everyones points have been rectified looking at the pics but the side and rear destinations are still scrolls rather than dot matrix boxs otherwise another nice addition to our fleets |
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