Dennis Pax Sparshatts

Dennis Pax in Foon hei fu chai, Movie, 1961

Class: Bus, Single-deck — Model origin: — Made for:

Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

Author	Message
Robi ◊ 2013-11-26 19:20
boys_bible ◊ 2013-11-26 19:50	I see it's Dennis Pax: http://www.orientalmodelbuses.co.uk/resin/b0016.htm
chris40 ◊ 2013-11-26 20:04	aka Dennis Pig ...
boys_bible ◊ 2013-11-26 20:21	chris40 wrote aka Dennis Pig ... Dennis pig? Why?
Ingo ◊ 2013-11-26 20:54	Does more vehicles have that nickname? /vehicle.php?id=37585 /vehicles_make-Humber_model-FV.html "Ferkeltaxe" (="Piglet taxi") was in the DDR named http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-Baureihe_VT_2.09
owlman ◊ 2013-11-26 20:55	FJ55 Land Cruisers have the nickname "Iron Pig"
Ingo ◊ 2013-11-26 21:01	owlman wrote have the nickname "Iron Pig" "Eisenschwein" in German - there are even two vehicles named that! In the DDR: http://www.militaerverein.de/fahrzeuge/spw.html In West Germany: Link to "www.motor-klassik.de" (more precisely: only the M30-engine!)
kudos ◊ 2013-11-26 21:25	P.P6 engined, D2 chassis Dennis Pax with bodywork by Sparshatts, in service with Kowloon Motor Bus between 1952 and 1969
dsl ◊ 2013-11-26 21:37	Reliant Robins were "plastic pigs."
chris40 ◊ 2013-11-27 08:58	boys_bible wrote Dennis pig? Why? Because of the resemblance of the protruding bonnet to a pig's snout.