Commercial Vehicle Modelling Still Alive
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WAS very interested in your comment on January 12, I 1962, referring to the Wilson model lorry kits. As a model maker, by 'hobby, I can recall these kits, but did not actually have any myself. The Foden bus kit was to 7 mm. scale, i.e., that of " 0 " gauge railways. They ceftainly do not seem to exist today. I expect the company will have long since switched to more profitable plastic products. Commercial vehicle modelling does not seem anything like so popular as car modelling and this is reflected in the lack of information 'that is generally available for this purpose. It may interest you, therefore, to _know that the data photographs, drawings, sketches,etc., in The Commercial Motor' are probably as valuable, if not even more so, to the model maker than to the readership. in general for indeed it is •only in such journals as The Commercial' Motor that such invaluable information can be found.
To show you that commercial vehicle modelling is still alive I enclose a photo of a bus body shell (still in early stages of construction) on a scale of 1/32 and which is to be a model of the M.C.W. Hermes,
West Derby, Liverpool, 12.
A. NALL.