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1950s Public Service GM Old Look Bus - Plaster
Model # / Description...
Model unknown / Plaster bus model of a GM Old Look city bus - Public Service of New jersey trim
Custom Model Bus Manufacturer / Country...
Manufacturer unknown / Made in United States
Custom Model Bus Dimensions and Scale...
4 1/2" long x 2" 1/2 high x 1" wide
Custom Model Bus Description, Bus Collector Value ($US) and Notes...
This is a handmade plaster model of a 2-door GM old look city bus (possibly a TDH-4512) in Public Service Coordinated Transport (New Jersey) trim. It appears to be about HO scale. Unfortunately, I don't recall the name of the person who built it, but I bought this around 1994 at one of the Gathering of Buses shows. Have another one similar to this one, but unpainted and a little shorter.
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These were Dave Roberts Miniature Transports products. I was one of Dave's best customers back in the eighties. He was based in Florida back then and eventually greatly reduced his stock choices, handing over the distribution duties to a guy from northern California. I have these in Red Arrow Lines colors and PTC colors...on my HO layout.
This appears to be a TDH4008. The seven square windows between the front door and the center exit and the two square windows beyond the exit mark it as a 40-passenger model. Public Service had a bunch of these.
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