OXFORD DIECAST
Oxford Diecast re-wrapped their 1/76 scale Aveling & Porter road roller and tar spreader, No. 11520 Crusader, in Great Dorset Steam Fair special packaging as the show model for 2022 [1]. Price is £26.95. The model first appeared in 2020 in the same colours, the light green and black of Robert Bate of Wolverhampton with the matching Coleman Flapper tar spreader. We’ll have to wait until 2024 for the next GDSF model I suppose.
In the meantime, Oxford have issued their 1/76 Fowler B6 road locomotive in the . RRP is £19.95. Five Fowler B6 locos were made for this company, including , up until 1931. Recently, however, Cumbrian engineer Alex Sharphouse, who had always wanted a Fowler road loco, set out to recreate from scratch, which took six years. Amazingly, whilst the project was underway, he managed to buy a collection of the original parts from the family of a late collector in the New Forest to incorporate in the build, allowing it to be registered as , NE 2834.
