The model
- an unexpected release in July 2006 is this China Motor Bus Tilling-Stevens
from Best Choose. The model has an error in the destination. Route 6 ran
between Vehicle Ferry Pier and Stanley - the actual destination shows Vehicle
Ferry Pier and Shau Ki Wan, which was Route 2 !
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Comments
from Barry Bailey
I have just bought a Best Choose Tilling-Stevens
CMB bus that has just been issued, model 05072. I am sure that the tooling
used has been obtained from the ABC model company. There are differences,
the windscreen does not open and there is no driver but the main castings
are identical, except for the addition of ribs across the roof and along
the side panels. These can easily be engraved in the dies and represent
the aluminium beading used to cover joins in the panels. The same wooden
framed passenger windows are opened on each side. The body-roof casting
would appear to be from the Thornycroft model with the die altered to take
the square edged radiator of the tilling rather than the rounded top of
the Thornycroft.
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The bus
- 108 Tilling-Stevens "Express" single-deck buses
were ordered by China Motor Bus, the first entering service in February
1948.
56 of these buses were
of the short wheelbase design, type K5LA4, whilst the remaining 52 were
of the longer wheelbase, type K5LA7. These buses had dual entrances and
had separate 1st and 2nd class saloons.
A noticeable feature
of this design was the engine bonnet side panels, made of aluminium, but
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