Since childhood, IAN BREADON has developed skills to turn diecasts and kits into acceptable representations of his favourite local operator. Some have mirrored real life buses, but he has also let his imagination take over to create types it has never operated and others never built by any manufacturer. My interest in buses and model buses was triggered by receipt of a green and cream Dinky Toys 290 STL in the early 1950s, perhaps because it was in the same colours as my home municipal operator, Aberdeen Corporation Transport. My collection grew over the years to include a blue Duple Roadmaster (which immediately became an Alexander's bus) and when ACT got Metro-Cammell Orion bodied Daimler CVG6s and AEC Regent Vs in the mid- and late-1950s, I 'improved' the Dinky 290s by the careful application of yellow and green Plasticene, pressed and moulded to replicate tin fronts, faired in front mudguards, rounded front and rear domes, and also with the two colours to the same layout as the ACT buses. When the Budgie Toys Routemaster appeared, I modified them slightly to represent Alexander-bodied Regent Vs delivered in 1959 and Daimler CVG6s rebodied by Alexander in 1960.
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