Feature on Models
by John Eva.

A Brief History of John Eva who has made the 1/12 scale, scratch, built models. John was born in Scunthorpe Lincolnshire, his father and grand father were traveling showpoeple. John carried on in the busines for many years, with a variation of amusements, traveling in and around Lincolnshire
and Yorkshire. John also started, along with his brother George selling Ex w.D. vehicles and breaking vehicles for spares, so John has had a good working knowledge of the motar transport. John
is now retired. It was through an accident that John had time to spare, for a short time. John and his wife Elsie were looking at some photos of the fairground transport they have had in the past, a photo of their 24ft showmans living van turned up and John said to Elsie that it would be nice to have a model of it. Several months later a 1/2 scale model showmans living van was produced and painted in pale blue and cream, and just looks like the real thing. John's two sons never expected the model to be finished, but it was. Later on John made models of a 1946 A.E.C. matador, a box van with a full load of fairground stalls ect in the back of it was made, even the 9.6 diesal engine, with all the detail. The A.E.C. model was painted in Red & Grey, exactly like the real vehicle. John has now got a very good collection of models all highly-detailed as you can see by the very nice photos from John Eva.