81F Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 What model road vehicles would you like to see?I would like more from the 1920's and 30's.Also I would like to see a Renult 5 (preferably red)Audi QuatroMontego Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Hillman Husky, Austin 'Ruby' 7, Citroen 2CV, Reliant Regal, Reliant Regal VanBond MinicarPanther 600 'sloper' Single and SidecarBSA 650 Gold Star Single soloTriumph Boneville 650 twin soloBSA 125 Bantam two stroke singleNSU Quickly mopedDiesel Road RollerDrott tracked shovel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Hillman Husky, Austin 'Ruby' 7, Citroen 2CV, Reliant Regal, Reliant Regal VanBond MinicarPanther 600 'sloper' Single and SidecarBSA 650 Gold Star Single soloTriumph Boneville 650 twin soloBSA 125 Bantam two stroke singleNSU Quickly mopedDiesel Road RollerDrott tracked shovel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 My postings seem to have got hiccups! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81F Posted October 30, 2011 Author Share Posted October 30, 2011 Hillman Husky, - yes that too (my Dad first car I think?)perhapse also a LADA Riva or the earlier FIAT it was derived fromWould like an Austin Ruby - would have to be red though to please the wife (one was our wedding car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 OH NO! not a LADA, I had one and they were HORRIBLE! The FIAT yes, but not that T34 in civilian guise! Only the Trabant were worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postman Prat Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 SWMBO had a Lada Samara and provided you accepted the concept of a basic car it was very satisfactory. Mind you, her driving was restricted to one side of Southampton to the other for work, local shopping, child running about etc. and every couple of months a trip to Exeter to see her mum. Nonetheless, for what we paid is was good value. However wasn't up to resisting a Ford Transit up the back pushing it into the car in front!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I think they had got better when the Samara appeared, - the RIVA (Yuk!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engine driver 125 Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 I'd like to see:A Standard 8 & 10,All the Triumph TR range,A Triumph 2000 (mk 1 and 2),A Triumph Spitfire/GT6,A Dolomite/Toledo, And about anything else that carried a Standard or Triumph badge. (My dad has a Triumph Herald but another company already make a model of this). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkingthedog Posted November 4, 2011 Share Posted November 4, 2011 Renault 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
81F Posted November 6, 2011 Author Share Posted November 6, 2011 LC&DR said:I think they had got better when the Samara appeared, - the RIVA (Yuk!)Yes I wouldn't mid a model of a samara - in black. I had the 1.3's were the best 1100's were a little underpowered until fitted with a webber, my fathers 1.5 made you wonder if you could stop it! but the 1.3 seemed nicely balanced round some of Oxfordshires coubntry lanes - even seemed to have an edge ofer Escort 1.3 and 1.4's round bends. Sadly though I do not think enought people would remember a samara as it looked a bit like a slightly chunkier polo or fiesta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brclass125 Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Already in the range, but a white Vauxhall PA Cresta as my late father had one and they were great to drive. I drove it for some friends weddings.Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 engine driver 125 said:I'd like to see:A Standard 8 & 10,All the Triumph TR range,A Triumph 2000 (mk 1 and 2),A Triumph Spitfire/GT6,A Dolomite/Toledo, And about anything else that carried a Standard or Triumph badge. (My dad has a Triumph Herald but another company already make a model of this).I passed my 4 wheeled driving test in the Driving School's Dolomite, round the streets of Hillsborough and Nether Edge. First time too! Up to that time I had been a devout motor bikeist with occasional excursions on three wheels (Cushty). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortehoe Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 A couple of G.P.O vehicles wouldn't go a miss. I don't mean the Morris Minor, but say a Leyland Hippo ex army. These were used by the phone side and mail side, drop side for stores, skinned body for line men, they were even still in army colours, with relevant markings painted out.The Scammell that is promoted as the contractor, would do, but the wheels need changing to spoke and solid tyres, the Bradford area had at least one as a cable drum mover. Buses please somebody make a London Transport RT. Before anybody goes of the deep end, a rival company does a few earlier LT buses and they look great, but nobody does an RT that looks right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ferret Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 [reply]LC&DR said:Hillman Husky, Austin 'Ruby' 7, Citroen 2CV, Reliant Regal, Reliant Regal VanBond MinicarPanther 600 'sloper' Single and SidecarBSA 650 Gold Star Single soloTriumph Boneville 650 twin soloBSA 125 Bantam two stroke singleNSU Quickly mopedDiesel Road RollerDrott tracked shovelHi LCDR, Your Austin Ruby 7 is an excellent choice and is in the range of Oxford Diecast. They have SS jaguar and Riley Kestrel as well as contemporary Morris cars. My favourite collection is Road Transport Images that includes a semi-forward control Morris Commercial lorry as well as the V8 engine Ford Dropside 3 tonner that my uncle used to let me change the gears on when I was about 10 years old. Thus I learnt how to handle a constant mesh "crash" gearbox. I drove his 1947 Kew Dodge 5 ton dropside on the farm when I was 15. RTI also offer an early Bedford that with a different radiator could be made to look like the Ford AA 3 tonner that delivered coal to our house in Staines during WW2. I have the Oxford Diecast Scammell Mechanical Horse in both GWR and SR liveries.Surf the net! You'll find there's an awful lot out there and readily available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ferret Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 81F said:What model road vehicles would you like to see?I would like more from the 1920's and 30's.Also I would like to see a Renult 5 (preferably red)Audi QuatroMontegoHi 81F, Suggest you look at my reply to LC&DR about models of both cars and commercials. In the 1920s and 1930s only the better off people had cars. General car ownership didn't arrive until the 1960s. Lord Nuffield himself owned a 10 hp Wolseley, quite a small car. Generally people did not aspire to large powerful cars that were prohibitively expensive to run, let alone buy.Mu Dad was an optometrist. He bought a 1922 Model Rover 10 hp open tourer in 1930 and drove it to Scotland where my folks lived until 1937. They sold the car to the lighthouse keeper at Stranraer and returned to England on the LNER train from Waverley to King's Cross! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ferret Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 mortehoe said:A couple of G.P.O vehicles wouldn't go a miss. I don't mean the Morris Minor, but say a Leyland Hippo ex army. These were used by the phone side and mail side, drop side for stores, skinned body for line men, they were even still in army colours, with relevant markings painted out.The Scammell that is promoted as the contractor, would do, but the wheels need changing to spoke and solid tyres, the Bradford area had at least one as a cable drum mover. Buses please somebody make a London Transport RT. Before anybody goes of the deep end, a rival company does a few earlier LT buses and they look great, but nobody does an RT that looks right.Hi Mortehoe,Dinky Toys used to include a lovely pre-war GPO mail van. I had one of these besides a dozen or more Dinky buses and coaches. It was enthusiasts like us who got together and founded a kind of club - The Model Bus Federation. I joined some years ago now and get discount on EFE etc. In the main the membership take standard diecasts and enhance and modify, besides the most impressive scratchbuilds.Buses are different to cars in that you get different combinations of body and chassis often peculiar to a particular city or county. London buses like the RT are absolutely distinctive and up until Mrs. Thatcher (and before her, Mrs. Barbara Castle) interfered many London buses were designed at LT's own drawing office at Chiswick. The latest EFE RT's are excellent. I have a 2RT2 with blinds for the 22 route, it has mirrors and a lot more detail. I also have an outside staircase Leyland Titan TD1 in the livery of Thames Valley. These buses used to layover outside the Reading Stations up until 1950.I have EFE STL class buses as well as kit built STL, ST, LT, LTL, and T class buses. I have bought both the Corgi Q class buses, the 4Q4 country bus and the Green Line coach.With diecast kits I cut out the destination apertures and create destination boxes in nickel silver with computer made destinations behind a perspex screen. The result is so convincing and far better than a label stuck on a recess in the die-casting.Buses and trains go together like love and marriage and a horse and carriage!!In the forties and fifties you got off a train walked outside the station and there was a selection of buses waiting. It was INTEGRATED TRANSPORT.Western National in Devon and Cornwall was originally part-owned by the GWR while Southern National was similarly connected to the Southern Railway and so on.Sadly, it has all gone to be replaced with "Parkway" and cars, cars, cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortehoe Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Hi Ferret. I have looked at the EFE offerings, the ST,STL,RF etc all seem to capture the vehicles, but the RT, something just doesn't sit right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted November 15, 2011 Share Posted November 15, 2011 the ferret said:mortehoe said:Western National in Devon and Cornwall was originally part-owned by the GWR while Southern National was similarly connected to the Southern Railway and so on.Sadly, it has all gone to be replaced with "Parkway" and cars, cars, cars.The Railway Companies bought heavily into 'bus companies before the War. As a result there were plenty of interavailability of tickets, which lasted well after nationalisation. The Southern had a majority share holding in all the companies in Kent and Sussex and after 1933 the London Transport routes were all taken over by the London Transport Passenger Board. It was the same all over the country. I am convinced public transport was much better in those days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ferret Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 LC&DR said:Hillman Husky, Austin 'Ruby' 7, Citroen 2CV, Reliant Regal, Reliant Regal VanBond MinicarPanther 600 'sloper' Single and SidecarBSA 650 Gold Star Single soloTriumph Boneville 650 twin soloBSA 125 Bantam two stroke singleNSU Quickly mopedDiesel Road RollerDrott tracked shovel Hi LC&DR, I just HAVE to tease you about this one! There are no bones in a Triumph BoNNeville because they have all been filleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCDR Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 the ferret said:LC&DR said:Hillman Husky, Austin 'Ruby' 7, Citroen 2CV, Reliant Regal, Reliant Regal VanBond MinicarPanther 600 'sloper' Single and SidecarBSA 650 Gold Star Single soloTriumph Boneville 650 twin soloBSA 125 Bantam two stroke singleNSU Quickly mopedDiesel Road RollerDrott tracked shovel Hi LC&DR, I just HAVE to tease you about this one! There are no bones in a Triumph BoNNeville because they have all been filleted.No I agree, but one can break a few if you drop it at speed! My little brother dropped his TRIBSA which had a Bonneville engine, a RRT2 gearbox and a Super Rocket frame and wheels all held together by Rickman plates. That certainly broke a lot of his bones. Me, I had a chopped Triumph T100A which with smaller wheels wasn't so fast but by heck it could accellerate like a Saturn V. My other bike was a 650 Matchy twin outfit. Oh Happy Days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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