powerrabbit Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Been looking around the postings at vans liveried as 'tractor service' vehicles but seems that all you out there hav'nt done many. It's a bit hard to find any in an equal scale to the tractors especially older period vans, put a Vanguards/Lledo Ford Pop (the blue and orange one or green and brown one) up to a Corgi and it's about right as 1/43rd scale vans are plentiful. The difficulty is in finding these vans in 1/32nd. I know that there are vans, Transits mainly, from Britain's, the late Corgi vans can be found in 1/35th scale which are acceptable. I have five tractor service vans in my collection of which only one is my own creation. I Will get the camera out and post some pics. Oh, and by the way, production tractor service vans are very hard to come by as not many were made, so if you have any, hang on to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 Here are three production tractor service vans. (Vanguard/Lledo. Morris Minor Corgi) This Austin A40 was done by the D.B. Club. (Vanguards) This last one, a 1959 Morris LD 150 was about the right colour so I made up the decals, not perfect by any means, will do better ones for it sometime, promise. (City Models) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Ford Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 very nice collection you have there powerrabbit, like you say don't see very many of them about. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewHolland2 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Nice vans there mate......I've got the Vanguards Fordson Service Van MIB and it is a nicel wee model...... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted April 15, 2007 Author Share Posted April 15, 2007 Nice vans there mate......I've got the Vanguards Fordson Service Van MIB and it is a nicel wee model...... :) Thanks chaps. I presume the one you got NH is the orange and blue one. This one, as you know was a limited edition which does come up on Ebay from time to time and usually makes a decent price. The rarer one to find is the Somerfeild (or something like that name) orange and blue one, these are a bit better as they have steering but make a lot more but they are around. The 'Appleyard' Nuffield Morris Minor is fairly common and can be found at boot sales and toy fairs pretty regularly. The Ausin A40 David Brown van has long since gone now as they only did them for a short time around 1999. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewHolland2 Posted April 15, 2007 Share Posted April 15, 2007 Thanks chaps. I presume the one you got NH is the orange and blue one. This one, as you know was a limited edition which does come up on Ebay from time to time and usually makes a decent price. The rarer one to find is the Somerfeild (or something like that name) orange and blue one, these are a bit better as they have steering but make a lot more but they are around. The 'Appleyard' Nuffield Morris Minor is fairly common and can be found at boot sales and toy fairs pretty regularly. The Ausin A40 David Brown van has long since gone now as they only did them for a short time around 1999. Yes it's the Orange and Blue one I have mate......Stays in its box and only comes out for pics sometimes...... Came across it by accident and tought I had to add it to the collection...... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finn Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 Does it have to be a van... Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted April 16, 2007 Author Share Posted April 16, 2007 Nice one Finn. Only trouble is that here in the U.K you would have a bit of trouble getting it around the roads and through field gateways. Here where I am my smallest field is 2 acres and the gateway is 6 feet. Most farmers have widened their gateways to 12 or 14 feet but most are 10 feet but we still have difficulty getting more modern equipment into fields as the roads are only 8 foot 6 inches which does'nt give you much 'swing'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TS135A DRIVER Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 I made a service van for my local New Holland dealers a while ago used the white Britains transit van and two of the dealers " supplied by decals ". Cut the decals up and applied to sides and rear doors to give the Farm Services name and logo and all the 4 branches and their phone numbers too. Put the New Holland logos on bonnet and rear doors. Will need to do a new one some time soon though as they have changed name to Raven Hill Farm Services now. Will try posting pictures when I get the hang of new camera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 nice line uop mate,i have a 80's style right hand transit ready for convo, in 1/35th scale, made by but certainly not corgi, just never got round to it as yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted April 16, 2007 Author Share Posted April 16, 2007 I see that there is someone selling some Transits on Ebay, 1/43rd scale white right-hand drive, buy-it-now price of ?14.99 FOR FIVE, post ?5 and a few odd pence. Are they worth a punt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 prob to small for a farm layout, but as a shelf item it might work, heres mine i got a while back cant remember who its by but came of ebay for 7 quid i think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted April 16, 2007 Author Share Posted April 16, 2007 Most modern Transit vans in 1/43rd are Cararama I reccon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted April 16, 2007 Share Posted April 16, 2007 this ones 1/35th mate, have a pic somewhere of it besides the mfs on the layout, tad small but not that bad really Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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