Side Adverts: Keiller 'Little Chip' Marmalade & Crosse &
Blackwell
Rear Advert: Askit
Reg. No.: CMS 47
Route No.: 63
Destination: Peterhead

Highly detailed with the W.Alexander 'Northern' fleet name, detailed legal lettering, 'max. speed/ u.w.', 'fuel oil', 'emergency exit' etc. in black. Black lining below the cream lower deck. Compatible with'OO' gauge model railways.
This is a spray painted, hand-finished special edition 'virtual' Code 3.

W.Alexander & Sons Ltd. – Leyland PD1
Catalogue Ref: WA/PD1/B
Price: Please e-mail

Introduced by Leyland in 1948, the PD1 quickly established itself in many bus fleets across the country, including London Transport, eventually replacing the pre-war Leyland buses.

Side Adverts: Black & White Scotch whisky &
Schweppes...sss.
Rear Advert: Askit
Reg. No.: AMS 4, Fleet No. RA7.
Route No.: 1
Destination: Kirkintilloch

Highly detailed with the W.Alexander gold and black fleet name and rear garter. Detailed legal lettering, 'max. speed/ u.w.', 'fuel oil', 'emergency exit' etc.in white. Black lining above and below the white waist band.

W.Alexander & Sons Leyland Tiger TS8 (1939/40)
Catalogue Ref: WA/TS8/BB
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EFE Leyland Tiger TS8, repainted in W.Alexander's later two-tone blue service bus livery. When new, this vehicle would have been finished in the well-known 'Bluebird' luxury coach livery. Walter Alexander ran his first 'charabanc' in Falkirk in 1914. By the mid 1950's W.Alexander & Sons Ltd., as part of he SMT Group, operated Scotland's largest fleet of 2000buses and coaches with services spanning most of Scotland from Glasgow in the west to Stirling and Edinburgh in the east and northwards to Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness. The Leyland TS8 Tiger, as used by W.Alexander, was a 39-seat variant of the standard Leyland (35-seat) product developed specifically for use in SMT (Scottish Motor Traction) Group fleets. Known as the TS8 Tiger ‘Special', a batch of 150 (all with bodywork by the Alexander coachbuilding subsidiary) was shared between Alexanders, SMT and Western SMT during 1939/40 and the type remained in service with Alexanders until the early 1960s.

The second of the batch (Alexander fleet no.P573) is currently undergoing restoration at the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum, Lathalmond, Fife. (See the ‘Useful Links’ page).

Detailed with Alexander fleetname, legal lettering, max. speed/ u.w., reg.nos. front and rear etc. Destination blind shows Route 18 to Falkirk. Compatible with 'OO' gauge model railways.

Corgi OOC Leyland Titan PD3 repainted (exterior and interior) as the sole Glasgow Corporation PD3A/2 which had the distinction of being the first Leyland PD3A and the only Leyland with a St.Helens front in the Glasgow Corporation fleet. The prototype was exhibited at the Earl's Court Commercial Motor Show in London in 1960 before entering service with the Corporation which lasted until 1974. Such a unique bus should, in retrospect, have been earmarked for preservation but was, alas, cannibalised for spares to maintain the remaining PD3/2 fleet (originally 139 strong) which had ordinary 'Midland Red' type tin fronts. This model, in the later yellow/green Glasgow Corporation livery adopted circa. 1959, carries the correct fleet number 'L398' front and rear and is on Route 58 to Dalmarnock. Lavishly embellished with the Corporation crest, GCT legal lettering, max. speed/u.w., fuel oil, emergency exit, reg.nos. front and rear etc. Striking side adverts are for Bell's Scotch Whisky and Royal Bank of Scotland.

Supplied in the original clear plastic Corgi presentation case. Compatible with 'OO' gauge model railways. Altogether a unique model of a unique Glasgow bus that we have already supplied to former GCT personnel.

Corgi OOC Leyland Titan PD2 repainted as a Glasgow Corporation PD2/25 of which a batch of 25 prototype examples were supplied to the Corporation by W.Alexander & Sons (Coachbuilders) of Falkirk to a Weymann design in 1955 as the first completely new post-war Leylands, and the first of the 'tin-fronted' design, to enter service with the Corporation. The model carries the fleet number 'L24' (the first of the batch) and is on Route 39 to Broomielaw via Eglinton St., Pollokshaws Rd. and Barrhead Rd. Lavishly embellished with the Corporation crest, GCT legal lettering, max. speed/ u.w., fuel oil, emergency exit, reg.nos. front and rear etc. Striking side adverts are for Black & White Scotch whiskey and Crawford's Cream Crackers. Correct black lining applied below the upper and lower deck windows. Supplied in the original clear plastic Corgi presentation case. Compatible with 'OO' gauge model railways. A unique item for the Scottish die-cast model bus collector recalling the heyday of Glasgow Corporation Transport during a period which saw the twilight of the Glasgow tram and the subsequent dawn of a new public transport era in the City.

Supplied in the original clear plastic Corgi presentation case. Compatible with 'OO' gauge model railways.

EFE Leyland Tiger TS8, repainted in the pre-war Western SMT black and white livery, of which a batch of twenty-five was delivered to Western in 1939-40. Most of the batch received new Alexander bodies in 1950-51 at which time the livery was downgraded to the red and cream then used for Western's service buses. The black and white livery was retained, in the post-war era, for coaches mainly employed on private hire, touring and long-distance work only.

Lavishly detailed with Western legal lettering, max. speed/ u.w., reg.nos. front and rear etc. Destination blind shows 'Paisley'. Supplied in an original EFE box, which is in good condition, and which is re-labelled as appropriate. Complements the excellent EFE Western SMT Leyland TD1 in the same 1930s livery. Compatible with 'OO' gauge model railways. A unique item for collectors of die-cast Scottish buses, particularly in this 75th anniversary year of the formation of Western SMT in 1932.