Tag: EFE

27 April 2022

Spring Announcement Extra: EFE Road and the Leyland National

“EFE Road” is the new name for Exclusive First Editions diecast model vehicles. A new look with new models and new packaging, complementing the railway rolling stock available in the “EFE Rail” range.  2022 is the 50th anniversary of the Leyland National single deck bus which first entered service in March 1972. Leyland National was a joint venture by British...

Categories Bachmann Europe News/Collectables

31 October 2019

Hitting the road from EFE!

London Transport celebrated its fiftieth birthday on 1st July 1983 and in commemoration, a series of Golden Jubilee events were held at various LT Works and bus garages from April to October 1983. Nearly twenty LT vehicles received Golden Jubilee liveries, several in an attractive rendition of the old pre-1933 General livery. On 2nd/3rd July 1983, a special gala weekend was...

Categories Bachmann Europe News/Collectables

23 September 2019

EFE Browns Blue Bus Launch

On Monday 9thSeptember, Exclusive First Editions (EFE) launched its latest 1:76 scale diecast model of AEC RT Browns Blue registration KLB 596. The launch took place at the old Stoneygate Tram Depot, now home to the Leicester Transport Heritage Trust (LTHT), with the first model presented to Mick Gamble, owner of the preserved vehicle on which the model is based.

Categories Bachmann Europe News/Collectables

16 August 2018

Bachmann on the Road – Buses Festival

On Sunday 19th August, the Bachmann Roadshow team swap rails for tarmac as it attends the 3rd annual Buses Festival at the British Motor Museum, near Gaydon, Warwickshire. Organised by Key Publishing’s Buses magazine team, the one-day show features an impressive display of vintage, restored and modern buses and coaches from all across the UK. Up to 100 vehicles are...

Categories Exhibitions and Shows

2 July 2018

New Releases from EFE

2018 sees the release of the first of our Exclusive First Edition (EFE) models to feature additional levels of detail to further enhance and refine our existing tooling. Following the release of our Midland Fox Bristol VR MkIII, the next model to be upgraded is the Bristol RE which will be available in Devon General NBC livery (E25006). We also...

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21 May 2018

Midland Fox Arrives at Bachmann

We are delighted to announce that our EFE model of the Bristol VR MkIII in the striking yellow and red livery of Midland Fox (E20458) has arrived in our warehouse and is available to purchase from our Bachmann stockists. Above: Front view of E20458 The closure of Midland Red Omnibus Co. in 1981 gave way to the creation of five new smaller...

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16 May 2018

R.M.S Olympic Sails On

This year marks the centenary since the end of the First World War and one of the ships utilised by the British Army for the Great War was R.M.S Olympic (E10005). The ship was one of three transatlantic ocean liners were built by the Harland and Wolff shipyard for the White Star line. Olympic was the first in its class built...

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11 April 2018

New AEC Reliance Arrives

This week our latest EFE model, a BET bodied AEC Reliance carrying the South Yorkshire Transport livery (E24332), arrived into our warehouse and is now available to be dispatched to our stockists. New to Maidstone & District in 1961, 336 NKT was brought in to Booth & Fisher’s fleet in 1973. In 1975 South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (SYPTE) took over...

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9 April 2018

Bachmann on the Road – Spring Gathering

The Bachmann Road Show team will be attending this year’s Spring Gathering event at the London Bus Museum. Visit our EFE stand where the team will be ready to take any of your questions this coming Sunday (15th April 2018). Spring Gathering will host an array of buses and coaches with the chance to experience excursion tours, displays, flea markets...

Categories Exhibitions and Shows

2 March 2018

An Accolade for EFE

We are pleased to announce that our Exclusive First Editions model of the E12311 Harrington Grenadier in Maidstone & District NBC livery has won 1st place in the ‘Public Service’ category of the Diecast Collectors Awards 2017! Furthermore, our model E23406 a Bedford TK truck in British Railways livery also got an honourable mention in the ‘HGV, Vans & Pickup Trucks’ category. Maidstone & District became...

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