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Model Trams
Overseas Manufacturers of OO gauge trams
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Overseas Model Tram OO Gauge (1:76 scale) Manufacturers
Citoys
Chinese manufacturers of 'pull and go' model toys. Scale is roughly 1:76.
- Carriage inscribed 'Fast Transit System', which looks like a cross between a tramcar and an underground car. The doors are for high platforms, there are 2 pantographs, the driving position is at one end and it is designed to run with other carriages as the non-driving end has a door for connections with the next carriage which can be hooked on. The livery is silver and orange. Price about about £3.
They are available in the UK from some toy shops and the importer is:
- CITOYS,
- Blackpool, FY4 4QQ.
Cooee Colectibles
Australian manufacturers of die caste painted models. Scale is 1:76.
The models are based on the Melbourne class W trams. They are available in a number of liveries including a Yarra heritage car, Bendigo Restaurant tram and Metropolitan Transit with adverts. They come both in static or motorized form.
In the UK some static cars are marketed by EFE.
Modemo
Japanese manufacturers of plastic tramcar model kits. Scale is given as 1:80 on 16.5mm gauge track. These are superb kits with full transfers so that an excellent reproduction of the complex advertisements can be achieved.
- EC1 Neiji Seika Go bogie tram car at about £10.
- EC51 Enoshima motorised bogie tram car at about £69.
- EC52 Tokyo Toden Type 7000 series motorised bogie car at about £69.
- EC55 Momotaro 'Deluxe Go' motorised tramcar at about £69.
- EC101 Tokyo Toden Type 6000 series bogie car at about £10. All over advertisement 'Nova Go'
- EC102 Hakodate City Shidan tramcar at about £10. Advertisement 'Kaisen Ichiba'
- EC104 Momotaro Dentetsu bogie tramcar at about £10. All over advertisement 'Happy Go'
- HT1 Tokyo Toden Type 6000 series motorised bogie car at about £77. (Ready to run)
- OE2 Momotaro tramcar at about £9. All over advertisement 'Dentetsu Go'
They are available in the UK from the Japanese Railway Society JRS at:
- JRS Model Supplies,
- Unit 7, Larchfield Estate,
- Dowlish Ford,
- Ilminster,
- Somerset, TA19 0PF.
- Tel: 01460 57555
Peak Horse
Ventures
Hong Kong manufacturers of diecast tramcar models.
Their 1:76 model of a modern Hong Kong double deck tram was introduced in 1998. The body casting has four small holes and separate rear view mirrors are supplied for the modeller to fit. The wheelbase is 33mm and the wheel diameter is 10.5mm. The fine wheels supplied are set at 3' 6" gauge but there is enough room for 16.5mm gauge wheels if the trucksides are moved out a few mm. More recently some have been supplied by Bachmann as motorized models.
Liveries produced included:
- Green and cream/off white 1920s (upper deck white).
- Green and cream/off white 1930s (upper deck green).
- Green.
- Green lined gold and lettered "Hong Kong Tramways".
- Gold.
- The livery of the Birkenhead heritage tramway.
- All over advertising livery for:
- Scotts Emulsion
- Longevity Milk
- Nissin Foods
- Taikoo Sugar
- Double Happiness Cigarettes
- Pentax Cameras
- Principal Insurance
- T & T Telecomms
- Fisherman's Friend Red
- Fisherman's Friend Green
- Fisherman's Friend White
- Fisherman's Friend Green Striped
- Fisherman's Friend Blue Striped
- Fisherman's Friend Yellow Striped
A special issue "not for sale" version of the Hong Kong tram produced by Peak Horse for Nikon Hong Kong Ltd.
