Corgi models

[Kestrel]

I was looking at a new Corgi catalogue that dropped through the door and zoomed in on the prices on some of the aircraft, eg

1:72 Catalina at £109.99,
1:72 Short Sunderland at £139.99,
1:72 Avro Vulcan at £184.99
1:72 Handley Page Halifax at £109.99
1:72 Junkers Ju52 at £104.99
1:72 Avro Lancaster £134.99

For static models, these prices are far over the top, eg you could buy two, maybe three, '00' gauge fully working locos for the price of an Avro Vulcan.

The catalogue does not include an static steam locomotives as in previous issues.

One of the models in the catalogue is a New Routemaster bus and has the following stats in the write up along side it.

1800 buses
365000000 bus journeys a year
55000000 miles travelled a year
100 routes

My calculations reveal:

55000000 / 365000000 = 0.15 miles per journey. This cannot be true therefore the above statement is incorrect

Whilst acknowledging that buses may not run 24 hours a day, every day, but assuming they do, I have come up with the following calculations.

365000000 / 1800 = 20277.77 journeys per bus per year = 55.50 journeys per bus per day

55000000 / 1800 = 30555.55 miles per bus per year = 83.64 miles per bus per day. This sounds possible, but low.

365000000 / 100 = 3650000 journeys per route per year = 9991.78 journeys per route per day

averaging 18 buses per route, that makes 999178 / 18 = 555.09 journeys per bus per day. Thus equates to 23.12 journeys per bus per hour in a 24 hour day. Extremely unlikely.

55000000 / 100 = 550000 miles per route per year = 1505.61 miles per route per day

1505.61 / 18 = 83.64 miles per bus per day

If, as the calculations above show, a bus makes 555.09 journeys per day but only travels 83.64 miles per day, each journey is only of 0.15 miles, as stated above.

Basically, the figures in the catalogue don’t add up.