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04 Jul

Lovely old Greyhound Bus

Posted by Andrew Wood in Bus, Coach, Corgi, Diecast models

This is a model of a Greyhound Bus from the USA. It's made by Corgi and is a Yellow Coach 743 built in the 1930s exclusively for Greyhound Lines.

These old US buses & coaches are very stylish and iconic, Corgi made a fair range of them back in the 1990s, this one was produced in 1994 in 1:50 scale. I've two versions of this in the shop just now and another two on eBay.

This one can be yours for £14.99 if you follow this link: http://little-wheels.net/products/23073

14 Mar

Where do all the buses go?

Posted by Andrew Wood in Bus, Coach, Public Transport, Tramcar

I track very carefully what is sold at Little Wheels, what type & make of model and where it goes. We shipped more than 10,000 models in 2013 and a more than a quarter of those were buses, trams & coaches.

That's an awful lot of public transport vehicles, who buys them?

About half of them go to collectors in the UK, the rest go around the world to 50 different countries so far. Unsurprisingly given the reference to place on the destination blinds of the buses, countries where there are large ex-pat British communities are high on the list, Canada & Australia mainly, although the USA accounts for more than those two put together. Mind you that statistic is skewed by a single collector in New Jersey who has single handedly bought more than half the buses I have sent to the US. Over 300 at the last count. He really likes buses.

Where else? Well, there is a strong bus collecting community in Brazil and also Mexico, both of which surprise me a little, not sure why.

However when I send a 1950s AEC RT to Thailand, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Vietnam or Chile I'm really curious about where they end up and who is buying them.

 



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