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In an infinite universe, with faster than light travel, manufacturing industry has collapsed. If you search for whatever you need, statistically it must occur naturally somewhere. Whether you need a new mattress or 1,000 steering wheels, the resources probably grow on a planet in the galaxy. This is true for most things, apart from biros, which are just found floating free in space, having spontaneously popped into existence through wormholes.
Steering wheels were in constant demand. The Little Green Mens' attempts to commercialise their abundant crops were hampered by their poor transport infrastructure. Other steering wheel trees were discovered and their fruit harvested in a calmer manner by vehicles such as this 9-wheeled platform.
This Scania cherry picker stopped by this week. The right hand picture shows it approx. half a mile away with a fifty metre reach! I'm not sure what it was up to but you wouldn't catch me up there!
Always amazes me how much a star moves in 30 seconds!
Apparently the correct names of these things are "Access Platforms" or "Boom Lifts", I prefer Cherry Pickers, it's what we always used to call them when I was in construction.
Located at the Rover Way entrance to Cardiff Docks.
President John F. Kennedy is briefed by Dr. Wernher von Braun regarding the Saturn rocket (with SA-5 on the pad at the time) at Pad B, Complex 37, Cape Canaveral, Florida. (L-R): An unidentified (mostly obscured) individual; Senator George Smathers of Florida;, Major General (MG) Chester V. Clifton, Military Aide to the President; President Kennedy (back to camera); Dr. von Braun, Director, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).
The above description is meant to be similar to those of the other photos taken during President Kennedy’s 16 November 1963 inspection/tour of Cape Canaveral.
I believe this photograph was/is probably considered an outtake, as a result of MG Clifton unintentionally photobombing the shot. The hand-annotated number on the verso is consistent with the JFK Library numbering of other photos taken during the inspection/tour. However, it yields no return when queried at the library’s website.
5" x 7".
Bristol based Tudor Services Event Transport Mercedes Actros 2545 coupled to a three axle skeleton trailer loaded with a forty foot ISO container waiting to unload at the Kersey Freight warehouse join Northern road Sudbury
This tiny Kei style cherry picker is/was used by Eon in South Staffordshire for accessing street lighting in limited access areas, such on footpaths and in parks. I'm sorry, but I don't know the make of it.
As seen on the side of Colossal Media's Cherry Picker. Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC.
Taken with the Fujifilm X100F.
Justin
Don't drop that spanner! Its a long way down.
Seems like a lot of work for a forgotten lightening rod.
“SILHOUETTES OF DEFENSE:
A lone sentry (right) walks his post in front of a V-2 rocket readied for firing, at the Joint Long Range Proving Ground in Cocoa, Fla. The weird-looking structure, silhouetted against the sky, presents a picture symbol of America’s preparedness for her defense.”
7" x 9".
Although the photograph is dated 1951, prior to that, the only two V-2s launched from Cape Canaveral were Bumper-7 and Bumper-8. Hence, this photo must be of one or the other, and originally, taken prior to July 29, 1950.
In fact, an original print of this photograph bears the following, and is viewable at the amazing Spaceline link further below:
"G536, LRPG, 18 JULY 50, (RESTRICTED), ROCKET AT DAWN"
A plethora of good reading & additional photos are readily available. A few of them:
weebau.com/rock_us/bumper_bu8.htm
www.spaceline.org/bumper/bumper8.html
More specifically, this very photo, referenced above...full frame...outstanding:
www.spaceline.org/galleries/bumper/preparation/g-0537.jpg...
Credit: Spaceline website. Home to tons of other wonderful photos.
www.nasa.gov/pdf/171684main_Bumper8.pdf
www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/bumper-8/
www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_765.html
Wonderful footage/report:
Credit: rocket.aero
www.wired.com/2009/07/dayintech-0724/
Excellent background & contextual information:
“BUMPER 8 and BUMPER 7
Toward the end of 1946, the Army Ordnance Corps became interested in the concept of a "step-rocket." It asked the General Electric Company to mount a WAC-Corporal missile atop of a German V-2 rocket and launch a series of those hybrid "Bumper" vehicles at the White Sands Proving Ground. Six BUMPER missiles were launched at White Sands in 1948 and 1949, and those flights verified the satisfactory operation of both missile stages and their separation system. Two more flights were planned with relatively low, flat trajectories (i.e., less than 150,000 feet in altitude), but White Sands was too short to accommodate them. The Long Range Proving Ground had the requisite length (250 miles), so BUMPERs 8 and 7 were launched from Cape Canaveral on 24 July and 29 July 1950 respectively. The General Electric Company was responsible for launching the vehicles, and the Army's Ballistic Research Laboratories (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland) provided instrumentation support. Among the Army and Air Force units that supported the BUMPER flights from the Cape, the 550th Guided Missiles Wing provided several aircraft and crews to monitor the Range for clearance purposes. The Long Range Proving Ground Division provided overall coordination and range clearance.”
Above extract from:
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Network Rail Mercedes Benz Unimog U400 with Access Platform AE05ETO (UIC 99 70 9979 045-0) at Doncaster Carr depot, 17th July 2013.
Fire protection is very important as far as buildings steelwork is concerned ,When the temperature of a fire (both ambient & direct) reaches the required temperature for the intumescent coating to react and become active, the coating swells and expands to a carbonaceous char. The expansion (swell) of the char can be 50 to 100 times its initial applied thickness. The carbonaceous char act as an insulative, protecting the steels from collapsing.
A hazard for double deckers in 1990...
ex 2320 - the back wall hasn't been repainted as it was destined to receive an advertising.
One of a number of ex WMT (new to WMPTE) Metrobuses operating for Stevensons in 1990.
2320+B102PHC(21V90)3520
Network Rail Volvo FL6 with access platform W433EOL (UIC 99 70 9912 013-8) at Stafford, 14th April 2012.
I glance up and see something interesting going on...
The recently replaced and upgraded telephone mast on the other side of the road is getting some attention from 2 chaps in the basket of a truck mounted tall reach access platform (aka Cherry picker). Time to use the powerful zoom of my camera...
I glance up and see something interesting going on...
The recently replaced and upgraded telephone mast on the other side of the road is getting some attention from 2 chaps in the basket of a truck mounted tall reach access platform (aka Cherry picker). Time to use the powerful zoom of my camera... as you can see it is highly effective!