The next bus rally we shall attend will be Dewsbury on September 22nd. I've yet to decide locations for regular filming this week, depends on the weather. I'm still trying to fit in IOW and Bournemouth/Poole plus Devon and Cornwall. I should have the Liverpool MTT running day finished today plus the 2 Gaydon Retro Truck films. I'm working on something for the next OTA Youtube channel . Of course we have our own NWVRT event coming up next month.

A bit of a tease for the next release which will come from Brilliant Buses, if the outside is as good as the inside, it should be great.

Next if you like cars I took a few snaps at Gaydon, how many can you identify.

A bit of a deluge in Liverpool, but the enthusiasts turned out and were not that deterred but my own start to the day was unpleasant. In the heavy rain I missed a manhole cover which was a similar colour to the paving and did a splendid backwards flip and landed on my lower back, a padded bottom helped soften the blow and three young men appeared instantly to help me up. A bit if a gap then it all got going. A lot of issues with the stop used around traffic but on the whole I think people got their shots. I'm just editing the next digitised Manchester area archive then I'll start on Gaydon yesterday and today at Noaks Ark. I'm also putting together another announcement for a different 1/76 bus model from China although this time for Singapore Tower Transit on 3 different routes. A taster below, if the inside is this good imagine the rest!!

A good mix at Gaydon, weather was not so good although those attending Sunday may do better. I'm ready for raij again tomorrow at the MTT running day in Liverpool, lets hope the forecasts are wrong. Anyway a bit more from Gaydon

Not a lot of the attendees arrived in such style, but despite arranging with the Titanic hotel there were still issues because of left and right hands not in line! I only got a few shots as there were so many taking views during the event. Below we see the film showing James at hard work in the museum.

We managed to find a ramp and got Mandy on board the bus, the atmosphere coming back late to Kirkby was magical.

Our own winner of the NWVRT  hearts is James, reached last 4 from 4000 entries

The trust turn out of members for the event was remarkable

PMP Remains at the very heart of our hobby, now reaching out around the world to bring you new model buses

Hello everyone, hopefully Facebook works better today for me when it displayed random photos with my blog. I hear from my friend at Brilliant Buses in China that they now have around 100 orders for buses, some of these are multiple so lets say 200 models. I think we are aiming a run of 2000 each but it still isn't looking that good- smaller runs produce high unit prices. Although delivery won't be well into 2025 we need to get our numbers sorted before winter 2024. Thank you to all who have responded the system seems to be working fine and I corrected the errant 7 which should have been a T, it wasn't of my doing for once , I've asked BB to check that it is correct on the model.

They have also designed a three axle Singapore model which I'm asking photos for, there are three versions but I need more details to get them on an announcement and on the shop. I'll be mentioning the artics in my next Buses advert and will try to get the artics on my EBay  shop as well although my experiences with EBay are dire, I can't even delete things from the shop or alter prices what an outfit they are but anything has got to be better than the dreaded 'A' word who wanted me to write an essay justifying my address! It certainly is a crazy world these days. Also going back to the artics they need to be pre ordered online not with emails, letters or phone calls, it isn't like our films, we are just collecting the requests and sending them to our friends in China. If you struggle ask a friend, relation, even the library might help.

So all the latest PMP films are on the shop here they are

The complete films are on Youtube with watermark, HD digital copies £9 via drop box and yes we still have DVDs and still take cheques, postal orders plus maybe the odd camel or gold bullion. Oops beginning to sound like Rapido!

BBC Volunteer of the year awards tonight at the Titanic Hotel in Liverpool via Kirkby, my best NWVRT shirt awakes, Mandy will model the fleece. NWVRT are already making the programme for out autumnal nocturnal event, here is the promotion picture.

The PMP stand will be there and we are also booked into Showbus at Quainton at the end of the month.

Good to see that the Mancunian model has reached Loughborough, looking forward to receiving it, well timed with the 'orange' day coming up at Boyle St. I've just edited the Gt Harwood even, film on Youtube tonight. Then I have the trip to Keighley to edit before moving on to Hull. So whet your appetite for that here are some stills. Also please don't forget to put your pre order in for the Brilliant Buses models, unless it gets seriously more there won't be any production run.

Pre orders are tumbling in for the Brilliant Buses releases, these are then sent to China for processing and recording the number of bus pre orders which will set the production run next year. It is possible that I may look at an arrangement to bring people other models they have made or are in the process. I'm a bit up to my eyes but needed a day back doing what I do normally hence the early start and over to Hull where it was light cloud most of the time just right for filming, sunny in West Yorkshire, Mcr and Cheshire. Fingers crossed that our young New Zealand relations have managed to get into their apartment and get it properly furnished, a furnished place has actually very few items in it.  Thursday we are out with the NWVRT for the BBC volunteer of the year awards for the Northwest we have a super chap up for it and a bus to take us to  Liverpool from the Kirkby base. Our next event is the Nocturnal running day. This coming weekend classic trucks at Gaydon and then Sunday MTT at Liverpool.

We'll need to get pre orders for the Brilliant Buses in by Christmas as they go into production as early as we can get a space on the factory lines, again if you missed it all yesterday.

Some shots of buses today in Hull

I have included 3 more models which I have no photos for yet. They are now all on the PMP shop , I've forwarded those received with incorrect numbers amended to match Brilliant buses lists.

As the buses rally in Northampton declared itself 'full' before Friday morning I decided that with the weather in mind that Keighley sounded a better idea and it was as we met Graham and Sue Mitchell who we hadn't seen for years plus friend Phil  Stevenson and Graham Lunn. In fact I knew a majority people who were at the Keighley open day. I had a couple of bus rides and also visited the little model railway show almost next door. I also looked at Dalton Mill which looms abandoned and scoured by fire complete with many burnt out cars. Once used as a film set it was a huge Victorian Worsted Mill.  Arriving home we had a bird hit the lounge window, no less than the Chiff Chaff that I'd seen a few days ago. It was not in good shape but have put in a box with towel , food and water and fingers crossed it regains consciousness.

A great morning at Keighley bus museum, tomorrow I hope to have the new model buses from China on the shop for pre orders which are on behalf of our friends in China.