The
EFE Leyland Titan 'West Coast Motors', is
diecast model bus in 1/76 scale. The home of the family owned business known as West Coast Motors is Campbeltown, familiarly known as “the Wee Toon”, at the southern end of Argyllshire’s Kintyre peninsula. The wording West Coast Motors first appeared in November 1922 as a fleetname but evidence indicates that John Craig came to Fort Argyll, Campbeltown in late 1916 and purchased an Alldays & Onions car which was probably used for hiring in the locality.
His brothers, William & David followed and the three Craig brothers then founded a motor engineering and garage business in the town’s Longrow. The Craigs’ first venture into the world of regular passenger transport came in 1921 with the introduction of a daily service to the fishing village of Tarbert, a 38 mile journey to the northern end of Kintyre. This was operated with an Albion and one-ton Fords, converted from wartime wagons to primitive fourteen seaters, and ran in tandem with an identical service provided by McConnachie of Campbeltown, a company that provided much competition over the next 50 years until 1970 when West Coast acquired this rival firm.
Manufacturer:
EFEModel:
28812 Leyland Titan 'West Coast Motors' Scale: 1/76
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