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BUSKITS updates availability list, and adds variant to BUSKIT 30 to the range.

BUSKIT 17, Bristol VRT
(as modelled by Phil Halewood to flat front Mark 2 standard in Ribble livery)

BUSKITS have confirmed the current availability of their kits. BUSKIT 2 and BUSKIT 7 are re-released to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of Salford City Transport. Each kit will include a set of specially commissioned Salford transfers and scale photocopies of the complete Salford destination/number blinds.

ALKIT is a new concept in bus modelling, building standardised die-cast, resin or white metal components into a scratchbuilt shell made from reinforced duplex aluminium sheet to produce the model bus that YOU want.

Each ALKIT is individually researched and hand-built - please email Alan for details of price, postage etc. The price of the model includes steering wheel and glazing appropriate to the model you asked for. The glazing is packed separately for those customers who prefer to spray paint their models.

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Image	Model Number	Model	Availability

CURRENT KIT AVAILABILITY
	ALKIT 1	*Leyland Atlantean MCW lowbridge - as Ribble, Potteries etc.	In stock
	ALKIT 2	*AEC Renown East Lancs lowheight - as Leigh Corporation	In stock
	ALKIT 3	**Daimler Fleetline Alexander D type - as North Western, Scottish Bus Group etc.	In stock
	ALKIT 4	**Daimler Fleetline East Lancs lowheight with Fleetline bonnet - as Coventry, Warrington, Bury	In stock

*Made using EFE components
**Mounted on a resin shell/interior with resin bonnets
All models - except the lowbridge Atlantean - come with the destination box of your choice and with black window rubbers painted as standard.

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Image	Model Number	Model	Availability
	BUSKIT 1	Bristol LH bus - as NHU 100F	Sold out
	BUSKIT 2	Salford Daimler CVG6/Met Cam. 90th Anniversary of Salford City Transport re-release	In stock
	BUSKIT 3A	Daimler Fleetline/Northern Counties as LUT 137 etc.	Sold out
	BUSKIT 3B	As 3A as Maidstone & District	Sold out
	BUSKIT 3C	Northern Counties-bodies Leyland Atlantean low-height as Ribble ECK 951-965E - NEW IMPROVED MASTER	Pre-order now
	BUSKIT 5	Leyland Tiger/Duple Dominant bus 11m as B900 WRN, Yorkshire Rider, Delaine, etc. - NEW IMPROVED MASTER	Pre-order now
	BUSKIT 7	Salford Leyland PD1/ECW. 90th Anniversary of Salford City Transport re-release	In stock
	BUSKIT 8	Bristol SUL-4A 36 seat bus	Sold out
	BUSKIT 9	Plaxton Centro-bodied VDL SB220 - now re-issued, and depicted on the left in the image alongside	Sold out
	BUSKIT 10	MAN/MCV Evolution single-decker	Sold out
	BUSKIT 11	**Alexander AL Type with peaks as supplied to Bradford and MPTE - available on Atlantean or Fleetline chassis, single or dual door, with or without engine shrouds - front panels for the MPTE and SYPTE shallow windscreen version are also in stock. This BUSKIT is made up for your requirements including a thin sheet metal destination panel as appropriate.	In stock
	BUSKIT 12	Alexander AD type as supplied to Scottish Bus Group with the later thick rubber gasket windows	Sold out
	BUSKIT 13A	Bristol Highbridge K	Sold out
	BUSKIT 14	**Alexander AL type domes as supplied to Bournemouth (available with Leyland Atlantean or Daimler Fleetline bonnets) - available on Atlantean or Fleetline chassis, single or dual door, with or without engine shrouds - front panels for the MPTE and SYPTE shallow windscreen version are also in stock. This BUSKIT is made up for your requirements including a thin sheet metal destination panel as appropriate.	In stock
	BUSKIT 15	**Alexander AL type with panoramic windows showing the chassis and body shell in dual door form as delivered to Lothian (available with Leyland Atlantean or Daimler Fleetline bonnets) - available on Atlantean or Fleetline chassis, single or dual door, with or without engine shrouds - front panels for the MPTE and SYPTE shallow windscreen version are also in stock. This BUSKIT is made up for your requirements including a thin sheet metal destination panel as appropriate.	In stock
	BUSKIT 16	***10m Dominant bus	In stock
	BUSKIT 17	Bristol VRT Mk 1 - Alan writes: "Customers should specify whether they require the Scottish 77 seater on the NBC 70 seat bus. Available with standard 'side by side' or 'T screen' front dests, with sliders or alternate deeper sliders and hoppers in the glazing. Scottish ones get all hoppers where appropriate - please give details of the bus you want and I will do my best to match it."	Sold out
	BUSKIT 18	Bristol LD Type 2 - now available with various destinations, glazing, and with or without platform doors. Customers are requested to specify the bus they want when ordering, and the best will be done to fulfil requirements	Sold out
	BUSKIT 19	Bristol FSF Lodekka with various destination boxes and glazing - now available with or without Cave Brown Cave heater intakes. The choice of destination boxes now includes Tilling (all three types), Scottish, Midland General and Bristol T shaped box with four-track number blind box. Give Alan a number and he will make up the kit accordingly.	In stock
	BUSKIT 20	Bristol MW bus as United LHN series	Pre-order now
	BUSKIT 21	Leyland PS2/14A Roe as West Riding 733	In stock
	BUSKIT 22	AEC Regent V Northern Counties H64F as Rhondda, Garelochhead but with alternative Leyland and Daimler bonnets - because this body tapered at the front when fitted to a Leyland PD2A chassis, this kit has four options: BUSKIT 22A - Leyland PD2A as supplied to A1 Service (TCS 101 etc.) with curved outer corners to front upper deck windows BUSKIT 22B - Leyland PD2A as Burnley, Colne and Nelson with square upper deck front windows and push-out vents BUSKIT 22C - Leyland PD2 exposed rad. as Yorkshire Traction's YHE rebuilds with curved outer corners to the front upper deck windows BUSKIT 22D - Leyland PD2 exposed rad. as SHMD 1-6 with square upper deck front windows and push-out vents BUSKITs 22C and 22D are also available on AEC Regent V (as Hebble, Garelochhead_ and Daimler CVG6 (as (SHMD 7-12) chassis	Sold out
	BUSKIT 23	Leyland PD3 Roe H73R with platform door alternative. As Leeds. Sheffield. Stevens and OK Motor Services YUP 487. Alternative bonnets available	Pre-order now
	BUSKIT 24	AEC Renown/Northern Counties as supplied yo Western Welsh - and City of Oxford who had the last Renown built	Pre-order now
	BUSKIT 25	Atlantean or Fleetline with Roe low-height body with curved windscreens on both decks. As delivered to West Riding, King Alfred, South Yorkshire etc.	Pre-order now
	BUSKIT 26	*Met. Cam. 'Orion' 27' front-loader 4-bay - as Brighton, Southport, Western Welsh	In stock
	BUSKIT 27	Met. Cam. 'Orion' 27' front-loader 5-bay - as Salford, Halifax, Devon	In stock
	BUSKIT 28	*Met. Cam. 'Orion' 27' rear-loader 4-bay - as Liverpool, Brighton	In stock
	BUSKIT 29	*Met. Cam. 'Orion' 30' rear-loader - as Leeds, Leicester, Bolton, LUT, Portsmouth etc.	In stock
Image not yet available	BUSKIT 30	*MCW Orion 30' front-loader as Bradford, Bolton, Yorkshire Woollen, South Wales, etc. Available with sliding or folding passenger doors - now available as Ribble PCK/RCK full-front vehicle	In stock

*BUSKITs 26, 28, 29, 30 are available with alternative fronts to match BUSKITs
repertoire of bonnets including AEC Regent exposed or concealed radiator,
Daimler CVG6, CCG6/CSG6, Guy Arab V, Leyland exposed radiator, BMMO 'tin front'
or St. Helens fibreglass front.
These fronts - and, on BUSKIT 30, the appropriate passenger and offside emergency doors -
are fitted to the model prior to packing so that the customer receives
a 'one piece' body shell finished to his/her requirements.
The BMMO 'tin front' Leyland bonnet comes with a separate grille
which makes accurate painting a vast improvement on previous representations of this bonnet.
The full fronts as fitted to Blackpool and Bolton PD3/PD3As can be fitted at no extra cost.
Alan will also convert his 'Orion' series of resin kits to unique buses such as Wolverhampton's Guy Arabs
with centre emergency exits, Bolton's PBN registered PD2 full front tinfronts and Rhondda's AEC Regents
with irregular window sizes at token additional cost - please contact him with details of your requirements.

**The Alexander AL types will be available with Fleetline or Atlantean bonnets,
single or dual doors, optional engine shrouds and curved or flat windscreens
***Please specify Bedford or Ford wheels when ordering

Pictured on the left is a Massey bodied Foden double-decker with eventually entered the PMT fleet as their H812 (XRE 590). Alan has built this model from scratch using sheet-metal and resin/plastic interior components and chassis. Alan is always happy to consider scratch-building, or conversion work, to enable collectors to have the model they particularly want. Enquires should be addressed to Alan at 3 Hallwood Avenue, Salford, M6 8WW - please enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for a reply.

Alan Johnson can now supply custom built models using EFE components to represent any of the Park Royal or Roe Atlanteans and Fleetlines based on the Park Royal 'Sheffield' style 1964 body design (see above right). Other examples so far built include Fleetlines for Birmingham and West Riding, and Atlanteans for King Alfred, Sheffield, Ashton, Leicester and dual door buses for Salford. Prices range from £60 to £80 depending on the work involved. Please contact BUSKITS with your enquiries.

Alan Johnson's range of 1:24 scale bus wheels. Each set consists of brass axles 'push fitted' to resin wheels onto which detailed 'rubber' tyres are mounted. White metal wheel trims are included in the different sets as follows (pictured from the left):

Set 1: Leyland Atlantean / Leopard with full wheel trims
Set 2: Leyland Atlantean / Leopard with exposed axle covers
Set 3: Daimler Fleetline with front wheel trims and rear hub covers

These are available at £16 per set plus £1.50 UK postage - please email BUSKITS for full details