Oxford Construction

[Covkid]

Oxford diecast seem to have diversified into several themes over the last year with mustard yellow coloured packaging for the construction vehicles. 

 

The newest model in the shops is 76ML1001 which could be described as the grandaddy of JCBs. Based on a blue Fordson Major tractor but with red framework for a bucket and a mini dozer blade and a rear mounted backhoe branded JCB. The front and rear equipment is poseable and the stabilisers fold down too. 

 

Picked mine up from Topp Trains of Stafford this week. very bright and shiny so will be dirtied and will probably be spotting all the bright shiny pins with blobs of red paint too. 

 

Really looking forward to the JCB 7 Excavator which will form a very useful step in the market between the modern stuff and the vintage RBs currently available. A future companion to the JCB 7 would be the really useful and ubiquitous Hymac 580.

 

Personal preferences I know but a Foden "half cab dump truck used in aggregate quarrying and major muckshifting projects

 

A Caterpillar D8 bulldozer, with a separately available Scraper box would be a really useful offering http://www.earthmoversmagazine.co.uk/cat-d8h-box-in-a-sticky-situation-archive-photos/

Also a Caterpillar 9xx series traxcavator http://www.caithness.org/transport/photogallery/index.php?gallery=8&image=8 .

 

To be really canny Oxford could manufacture the Traxcavator with and without cabs, and the D8 could have several different cabs too, as well as versions without.  There would be railway crossover with the Traxcavator because BR used a number for ballast workings particularly on the Western Region transported on trolley wagons. In fact BR "stole" the name to describe the particular task "traxcavate" in BR engineering notices.      

 

[phil gollin]

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I think a mid-50's to late 60's International DROTT (with 4-in-1 bucket) would be the most use.

 

E.G. ;

 

https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6020/5939012308_37fcac8f35_b.jpg

 

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[Fat Controller]

It would be nice if they did one of those 'back-to-front' Fordsons with the grab-bucket, so popular with coal-merchants into the 1980s, and the end of coal delivery in conventional 'flat-bottomed' wagons.