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This is a code 3 model I have painted for somebody.
The livery is based on Transdev Keighley and District, but does not have any branding. The fleet number and reg number are fictitious.
As far as greens go, this green hasn't turned out too bad! Maybe I should do a full Transdev Keighley model
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the long corridors of Munich airport have this 'colour coded' lighting that turns them into a futuristic design object (the colours may, in fact, signify something, come to think of it - or just serve as aide-memoire to find one's way back to a terminal?)
The model is parked up in a London side street attending a suspicious package job in Westminster, thankfully it was a false alarm and everything is all in order, a school boy had left his school bag on a park bench!
This model has been produced using a 1/43rd Auto Art base model that has been resprayed in white. The model has had full correct livery applied including number plates, tax disk, call signs, etc. It has also had a white metal roof conversion so that it no longer has a sun roof. The model has also had a tow bar fitted and extra rear red repeaters.
This is based on a real vehicle that served with the Met.
Bletchley Park appears in the Domesday Book as part of the Manor of Eaton. Browne Willis built a mansion there in 1711, but after Thomas Harrison purchased the property in 1793 this was pulled down. It was first known as Bletchley Park after its purchase by Samuel Lipscomb Seckham in 1877. The estate of 581 acres (235 ha) was bought in 1883 by Sir Herbert Samuel Leon, who expanded the then-existing farmhouse into the present "maudlin and monstrous pile" combining Victorian Gothic, Tudor, and Dutch Baroque styles.
In 1938, the mansion and much of the site was bought by a builder planning a housing estate, but in May 1938 Admiral Sir Hugh Sinclair, head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6), bought the mansion and 58 acres (23 ha) of land for £6,000, using his own money after the Government said they did not have the budget to do so, for use by GC&CS and SIS in the event of war.
A key advantage seen by Sinclair and his colleagues (inspecting the site under the cover of "Captain Ridley's shooting party") was Bletchley's geographical centrality. It was almost immediately adjacent to Bletchley railway station, where the "Varsity Line" between Oxford and Cambridge – whose universities were expected to supply many of the code-breakers – met the main West Coast railway line connecting London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Watling Street, the main road linking London to the north-west (now the A5) was close by, and high-volume communication links were available at the telegraph and telephone repeater station in nearby Fenny Stratford.
Bletchley Park was known as "B.P." to those who worked there. "Station X" (X = Roman numeral ten), "London Signals Intelligence Centre", and "Government Communications Headquarters" were all cover names used during the war. The formal posting of the many "Wrens" – members of the Women's Royal Naval Service – working there, was to HMS Pembroke V. Royal Air Force names of Bletchley Park and its outstations included RAF Eastcote, RAF Lime Grove and RAF Church Green. The postal address that staff had to use was "Room 47, Foreign Office". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park
Withdrawn class 125 Driving Motor Second (DMS) E50999 stands in the yard at Derby Litchchurch Lane carriage works, 13th August 1977.
Unit History
In 1958 twenty high density three car diesel hydraulic sets were built at Derby for suburban services on the Great Eastern. They were allocated to Stratford for London Liverpool St. – Hertford East, Cheshunt, Epping and Southminster services. Due to there hydraulic transmission they carried the “orange star” coupling code which can be seen above the buffers. The class was fitted with the large Rolls Royce 8-cylinder engine which gave them the same performance as the Great Eastern electric multiple units and they also proved useful on the climb from Liverpool St. to Bethnal Green. When the Great Eastern suburban lines were fully electrified the twenty sets were transferred to Finsbury Park, for working peak-hour services out of Kings Cross alongside locomotive-hauled sets (the off-peak service was worked by class 105 Cravens two car sets). When the Great Northern suburban services were electrified the class was withdrawn between October 1976 and February 1977, with the majority of the class being broken up at Doncaster works and CF Booth, Rotherham.
This is one of my best Code 3 models I've done to date. It replicates one of the Met Police Vito vans used as a Dog Unit. The base model is made by Minichamps and it has had full livery and lighting applied (see notes on other photo for more details). It has also had windows fitted to both sides as per the real vehicle.