CONTENTS of the print edition
Model Auto Review 232
Publication 7 May 200904 Cars in colour (captions page 06) 06 Cars News 07 Relic Graeme Watt, UK • Bond partwork Maz Woolley, UK 08 Chrysler Concorde Graeme Ogg, UK 10 Ford F150 Dave Turner, UK 11 Daimler DS420 Maz Woolley, UK 14 1936 Fords John F Quilter, USA 15 Talbot Maz Woolley, UK 16-17 Cars 18 TW Hans Nordström, Finland 20 Letters • avia mini 21 Competitions • Club News Collated by Rod Ward 24 Books 25 Truckstop 26 News: BBR • Captions to page 29 27 News Hans-Georg Schmitt, Germany 29 Buses & emergency vehicles
EDITORIAL
by Rod WardMAKE ME AN OFFER
Here is MAR 232, a nice bright issue for springtime (in the northern hemisphere, anyway). I am pleased to say that we are still getting a continued flow of excellent material from our contributors. And very good material it is too, judging from this issue.
If you can contribute to our mix with a feature article, a letter or news item, please don’t be shy! Just contact me with what you have in mind, and I will advise what you should do.
We are now well into our 28th year in continuous publication, which has only been possible due to the generous and unstinting efforts of our band of contributors, but we are always eager to add more names to our list of illustrious writers and photographers. Make your offer today!
AUTO REVIEW: DAIMLER
The latest Auto Review book is now available, on Daimler Cars. It also includes the stories of BSA and Lanchester, the related marques which were all owned by the Birmingham Small Arms company. Now for the latest appeal for material I can include in future Auto Review books: future titles include Sunbeam (plus Talbot and Darracq), British tractors and traction engines, Armstrong-Siddeley, British coachbuilding companies, Alvis, Aston Martin, Lagonda, Hillman, Singer, aviatrices (famous lady pilots), and many other subjects. If you have any illustrations (advertisements, brochures, your own photographs etc) or any personal anecdotes you can offer on any subject, please send them to me as soon as possible for inclusion in future publications. We also invite suggestions for future titles...
FRENCH JAGUAR XK150 MODELS
TwinCam is a new range of 1:43 handbuilt models, designed in France, produced in Asia. The first models will be Jaguar XK150 fixed head coupes (lhd red or rhd green) and dropheads (lhd burgundy or rhd black), with photoetched parts, including wire wheels.
CLUB NEWS
Collated by Rod WardDavid Cooke gives us information on the Dinky Toy Collectors Association, PO Box 60, Norwich NR4 7WB, which has grown to 250 members worldwide since its inception six years ago. DTCA subscriptions cost £15.00 UK, £20.00 EU or £23.00 RoW and include the Journal of the DTCA. The Cape Model Collector, newsletter of the Cape Model and Toy Club seems to glean most of its news from the internet, but I note from a profile that at least two members are fans of Rootes group cars. Members of the South Hants Model Auto Club are well-travelled, judging from Wheel Nuts, the club publication, which describes a tour of French museums, a visit to the Williams F1 factory and a horror story about British Airways screwing up a member’s Caribbean cruise. Keith Allen, editor of Showcase, the West Australian Model Collectors Club magazine, packs his pages very full, currently with interesting potted histories of UK car manufacturers. Cliff Maddock, editor of the Maidenhead Static Model Club newsletter, Wheel Bearings, has also embarked on a series of potted histories, this time on the car makers of Reading, beginning with Derek Buckler. The Corgi Collector Club is now run from South Yorkshire (PO Box 609, Rotherham S60 9AJ), and Susan Pownall has been retained as Consultant Editor. Subscriptions cost £20.00 UK, £23.00 Europe or £24.00 RoW. The 2008 Club model, free to members, is pictured on page 25. The Oxford Diecast Collectors Club has a very large membership who get free gifts, discounted models and the Globe magazine six times per year. Contact PO Box 62 Swansea SA1 4YA for membership details (£7.50 to £16.00 per year in UK).
Book Reviews
NORTHERN ROADWAYS BUSES by Garry Ward, Super Prestige 17, 170mm x 240mm softbound, 96 pages, ISBN 978 1 90530 4233. Pub: Venture Publications £14.95.
WEST MON BUSES by Michael Yelton & Chris Taylor, Super Prestige 18, 170mm x 240mm softbound, 112 pages, ISBN 978 1 90530 4264. Pub: Venture Publications £15.95.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY OF IRELAND Road Motor Services 1925-1958 by Sam Simpson, A4 hardbound, 112 pages, ISBN 978 1 90530 4097. Pub: Venture Publications Ltd, 128 Pikes Lane, Glossop, Derbyshire. SK13 8EH UK. £30.00.
A feast from the celtic fringe! I will deal with all three of these bus books together, one for Scotland, one for Wales, one for Ireland. Venture set a high standard, kept up in these titles. I confess that I don’t recall Northern Roadways buses when I visited my Glasgow relatives in the 1950s. The fleet was an amazing mixture of vehicles and styles, and their long distance coaches featured a uniformed stewardess who brewed pots of tea en route. Those were the days! I also never saw West Mon in their heyday, but I impressed a friend from South Wales by knowing about Bargoed Hill. He didn’t know that I’d only seen pictures of a West Mon Leyland Bull climbing it. So, two really good books, packed with excellent pictures, but the best is left to last.
I have to say that the GNR(I) volume could well be the best bus book I have ever read; totally absorbing, full of fascinating characters, affording an insight into day to day Irish life in the first half of the 20th century. The company began when the whole of Ireland was under British rule, and after partition it offered services on both sides of the border. This is an engrossing story, told with wit and clarity, and superbly illustrated. Rod Ward
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