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Lot 110
TWO CORGI 1:50 LARGE SCALE LIMITED EDITION MINT AND BOXED MODELS OF SINGLE DECK BUSSES, viz New York - GM Fishbowl Bus and ditto Canadian Coach Lines, ANOTHER OF A GREYHOUND SCENIC CRUISER, pictorial boxes good, two 1:76 scale CORGI CLASSICS MINT AND BOXED LIMITED EDITION OF AMERICAN SINGLE DECK BUSSES, viz P.C.S.T. Seaworld and Greyhound - New York World Fair, pictorial boxes good (5)
Lot 121
FIVE 'BRITBUS' MINT AND BOXED LIMITED EDITION 1:76 SCALE MODELS OF DOUBLE AND SINGLE DECKER BUSSES, each in hard plastic box with outer card sleeve and limited edition plastic card certificate TOGETHER WITH APPROX 49 MODERN UNBOXED DIE CAST MODELS OF BUSSES AND OTHER VEHICLES, various but including a repainted Dinky Supertoys Pressure Refueller model No. 642, 54 pieces in total (54)
Lot 128
CORGI AVIATION ARCHIVE BOXED 1:72 SCALE MODEL OF AN AVRO LANCASTER R5868/PO-S BOMBER, 467 Squadron (a.f.), a BOXED DIORAMA OF THREE AMERICAN W/WII AIRCRAFT, ACADEMY 1:72 SCALE PLASTIC KIT OF A BOEING B-17F FLYNG FORTRESS, two cast brass models of WWII British aircraft and a SELECTION OF MODERN DIE CAST MODELS OF MILITARY AIRCRAFT, various conditions, approx 24 items (24)
Lot 135
SMALL COLLECTION OF MINT AND BOXED SMALLER SCALE AND OTHER VINTAGE VEHICLES includes; Classix and Trackside 'OO' or 1:76 and similar scale items approx 26 items window boxes, good and approx 15 UNBOXED DIE CAST VEHICLES VARIOUS includes Dinky Routmaster Bus No. 289, approx 31 items in total (31)
Lot 935
An Interesting M.B.E. and ‘Passchendaele’ M.C. group of Four awarded to Captain Robert Launcelot Busby, 2/8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, taken P.o.W. in 1918, who afterwards rose to prominence in Manchester and Salford as Director of the local racecourse and as a local politician, and later served as Commandant of the Salford “Specials” during the Blitz, comprising: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Civil Division, Member’s second type breast badge, in silver; Military Cross, GVR, the reverse privately engraved (Captain R. L. Busby); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R. L. Busby) the latter with M.i.D., mounted on bar with reverse pin for wear, lightly toned, good very fine, offered with an extensive file of copied research, including his MIC entry which confirms his BWM & Victory Medals were issued in 1928. (4) NOTE: M.C.: London Gazette, 06 April 1918: ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. On his Commanding Officer becoming a casualty, he took charge of the situation, communicated with the forward troops, and sent messages to Brigade Headquarters under difficulties. He collected men from various units scattered about in shell holes and sent them forward under a responsible leader. The men though tired out, were everywhere inspired by his coolness and tact.’ M.i.D.: London Gazette, 23 May 1918: ‘For the March Retreat in 1918 where he was captured and spent the remainder of the war as a POW’ M.B.E.: London Gazette, 09 June 1938: ‘For political and public services in Manchester and Salford.’ Robert Lancelot Busby was born in Hampstead, London, in 1880, and lived with his uncle Charles Frail, following the death of his parents. Frail was a respected figure in horse racing, and in 1898 he acquired 132 acres of land beside the River Irwell in Salford where the foundation stone of the Club Stand for Manchester Racecourse was laid three years later. Robert was appointed Secretary of the new racecourse in 1904. At the outbreak of war he joined the Lancashire Fusiliers as 2nd Lieutenant in the 2/8th Battalion in August 1915, but his battalion did not proceed to France until early 1917, when Busby had reached the rank of Captain and Adjutant. As Adjutant, he was responsible for the unit’s war diary, and one entry of his written on the eve of an attack at Passchendaele on 9 October 1917 reads as follows: ‘Conditions were almost indescribable. The night was inky and the track led over ground covered with innumerable shell-holes full of mud and water. This march would normally take about one and a half hours. It took the Battalion eleven and a half hours.’ The regimental history further describes how the men were often up to their waists in water so ‘several drowned through sinking down in the water from the weight of their equipment and sheer exhaustion.’ The C.O. of the 2/8th was wounded on the morning of 9 October, where Busby assumed command of the Battalion H.Q. and went forward to rally the men: according to the regimental history they ‘responded cheerfully to the inspiration of his coolness and tact.’ Eventually the Battalion’s objective was reached but they suffered casualties of 13 officers and 374 other ranks killed, wounded or missing. In another war diary entry dated 31 October 1917 Busby listed those decorated for their part in the attack, with his own name listed amongst those awarded the MC. In March 1918, his Battalion was positioned near Peronne where it faced ‘head on’ the ‘German Spring Offensive’ with heavy bombardments of gas and artillery which was swiftly followed by large-scale infantry attacks. Some 500 of its ranks were killed, wounded or taken prisoner in this attack, and Busby himself was interned at the Citadel Queists POW Camp in Germany before being repatriated to England at the end of November. Post-war, Busby returned as a Director at Manchester Racecourse, and ‘as much at ease with a groundsman as with a member of the Jockey Club’ he gained a reputation as one of the best racecourse organisers in the country. He was awarded the M.B.E. in June 1938, and on the outbreak of hostilities Busby was appointed Commandant of the ‘Salford Special’ Constabulary, in which role he worked tirelessly despite the devastation caused during German air-raids over Manchester in 1940. On two nights in December around 8,000 homes in Salford were destroyed and Busby’s office was also wrecked - and a direct hit on the racecourse resulted in the cancellation of the New Year meeting. Having worked himself to near-exhaustion, he was persuaded that he should take recuperative leave, and Busby retreated to Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales but tragically on the 18th of August 1941, he took his own life. Ex Dr Alan Stott collection, D.N.W., 25 March 1997, lot 111. Full details of his career and tragic death appeared in a biographical article in Medal News in February 2012 - “A Study in Fortitude”.
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