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C & C Travel of Hythe, Hants, Volvo B10M-60 Van Hool Alizee FBZ 8186 in Brighton this afternoon. It had been new to Wallace Arnold as L917 NWW.
29/1/14
C-FKAJ - Boeing B-757-23A/F - CargoJet Airways
(leased from AWAS)
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
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Oui Mistigree, c'est bien le château de Bruniquel dans le village du même nom, l'un des plus beaux villages de France (Lot et Garonne). Il est célèbre car Robert Henrico y tourna son film "Le vieux fusil" avec Romy Schneider et Philippe Noiret.
About London Heritage Farm
Welcome to London Heritage Farm, a 4.06 acre site that contains the historical London Farm House and a park overlooking the south arm of the Fraser River.
6511 Dyke Road
Richmond, B.C. V7E 3R3
Phone: 604-271-5220
Fax: 604-271-5248
Email: londonhf@telus.net
Website: londonfarm.ca
ondon Heritage Farm, Richmond
The Tearoom is one of the most popular services offered at London Heritage Farms in Richmond, British Columbia offering dozens of varieties of tea as well as a few snacks to patrons who overlook the nearby gardens and farm acreage. CREDIT: Venture Vancouver, SOURCE: www.venturevancouver.com
One of the London Heritage Farm's most popular services is the tearoom in the converted farmhouse which serves tea and snacks.
STATS HOURS
Type: Farm
Season: All Seasons
Weather: All Weather
Time: 1 hour
Cost: Free
What to bring: Camera, Sense of Curiosity
Built by the London brothers, immigrants from Ontario, Canada, the farm was owned by the London family for decades until it was sold to a series of farming families. Bought by the city of Richmond in 1978 and opened as a museum and park, the farm now showcases a varieties of artifacts as well as a teahouse, gift shop, gardens, pond and even a chicken coop. The farm is an ideal place to spend a few lazy hours enjoying the natural setting of this heritage farmstead.
Built in the 1880s, the London Heritage Farm is one of the oldest remaining farms in Richmond, British Columbia. Sprawling over four hectares of land, there are a few historical buildings and farm equipment to see as well as the nearby community garden, pond, chicken coop and picturesque native garden behind the house. The farm remains in a park-like setting popular with tourists from nearby Steveston or those biking along the Dyke which runs along the Fraser River.
Restored to its original condition, the inside of the farmhouse is a popular locale for visitors to the farm. People are free to roam the surrounding gardens and buildings as well at the wood panelled white farmhouse itself which showcases several rooms with period furniture and artifacts such as suitcases, toys, books, embroideries and sewing and other clothes making tools as as well as quilts and other interesting pieces. The house also contains a gift shop setting local artwork and preservatives made from the fruits and vegetables from the nearby gardens. One of the site's most popular venues is the Teahouse, a popular room on the ground level which serves tea and other snacks.
Operated by the city of Richmond and the London Heritage Farm Society, the farm offers special events and is also used for weddings, parties and other celebrations. This interesting and small acreage is a fun place to spend an hour discovering Richmond's interesting agricultural history.
Read more: London Heritage Farm www.venturevancouver.com/london-heritage-farm-richmond-bc...
Tea Time
London Farm - teapot
The lovely country-style Tea Room seats up to 25 and serves London Farm's own blend of "London Lady" tea, homemade scones with homemade jam and butter and three other baked items for $8.50 per person.
Tea is served on fine English bone china "London Lady" tea. Locally made jams and jellies, London Heritage Farm's own honey, handmade soap, English Bone China and many other items are for sale in the gift shop.
Tea Room Operating Hours
Saturday and Sunday (Closed in January)
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Entrance to the farm house is by donation.
The lower level of the house, including the Tea Room, is wheelchair accessible.
Farm House and Grounds
Explore the 1898 London Farm House which has been fully restored and furnished to illustrate rural life in Richmond between 1890 and 1920.
The site also includes beautiful heritage perennial flower, kitchen and herb garden, the restored Spragg family barn, an outside exhibit of large, antique farm equipment, chickens, Honey and Blue Orchard bees, community gardens and amenities such as picnic tables and public washrooms.
1938 Talbot-Lago T150-C SS Teardrop Coupe by Figoni et Falaschi
$7,265,000 USD | Sold
From Sotheby's:
“The Talbot-Lago Teardrop Coupe represents what may be one of the finest examples of assembled form ever applied to the automobile.”
Strother MacMinn, Automotive Designer and Writer
Having assumed control of Automobiles Talbot S.A in 1933, and subsequently purchased the historic name from the receivers in 1936, ambitious Anglo-Italian engineer Anthony Lago set about revitalizing the beleaguered company with a range of new cars designed by former Fiat and Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq engineer Walter Becchia. In the context of the period—one dominated by the fallout from the Great Depression—cost control would be critical and, although the company offered more than a dozen models over the next four years, many shared common parts such that only four different chassis designs were used during this time.
Amongst his myriad briefs, Becchia was tasked with developing a competition version of the company’s 3-liter six-cylinder T150 engine, as Lago had identified motorsport as an area critical to the company’s future success. A comprehensive redesign saw the newly enlarged 4-liter engine modified with hemispherical combustion chambers and three Zenith-Stomberg carburetors; its generous 104.5-millimeter stroke afforded copious torque at modest revs, rendering it ideally suited to competitive use.
However, Lago understood that future racing success would require far more than mere horsepower. To this end, he instructed Becchia, in conjunction with fellow Fiat alumnus Vincenzo Bertarione, to construct a commensurate chassis. The new T150-C frame—the “C” denoting “Corse”—was of a conventional ladder type, with box section side spars joined by tubular cross-members. The short-chassis Super Sports, or “SS,” variant boasted a wheelbase of 104 inches and featured independent front suspension via a combination of top links and a transversely mounted leaf spring, while at the rear an underslung live axle was employed. Further modifications specific to the model included a large-capacity oil pan, while the fitment of a Wilson pre-selector gearbox ensured quick and dependable gear changes.
Four T150-C SS Roadsters were constructed for the 1936 season, although it was not until the following year that they achieved the results they deserved: a magnificent 1-2-3-5 in the Sports Car-only French Grand Prix and a commanding win in the RAC Tourist Trophy at Donington Park were notable highlights.
ENTER FIGONI ET FALASCHI
Lago had, by this time, been introduced to celebrated coachbuilder Giuseppe Figoni by Luigi Chinetti, a mutual friend and then Talbot-Lago’s Parisian agent. Italian by birth, Figoni had emigrated to Paris as a young boy, subsequently establishing his fabled coachworks in nearby Boulogne-sur-Seine. It was there that he built up a strong bond with Chinetti; the latter employed him to modify the bodywork of the long-chassis Alfa Romeo 8C 2300s with which he would emerge victorious at Le Mans in 1932 and 1934.
Figoni had been commissioned by Lago to construct the bodies of some, if not all, of the T150-C SS Roadsters; their aerodynamic cycle-type wings bore a strikingly similar appearance and construction to those fitted to Chinetti’s Alfa 8Cs. Mindful of the seemingly limitless styling opportunities offered by the distinctly en vogue Art Deco movement, Lago discussed with Figoni the possibility of fitting a number of his chassis with suitably extravagant coupe bodies constructed by the now re-named Figoni et Falaschi coachworks. Such was Figoni’s enthusiasm for the idea that both parties embarked upon an exclusive arrangement to work together in 1937, and no less than 16 such coupes were constructed over the next two years.
An initial batch of five cars, retrospectively termed “Jeancart” coupes in deference to the purchaser of the first such example, was constructed using a combination of T-150-C and T23 chassis. Featuring trademark Figoni touches such as steeply raked windscreens, sumptuously sculpted fenders, and oval window apertures, each was impossibly beautiful yet subtly different to the next. Upon its unveiling at the 1937 Paris Motor Show, the new coupe was dubbed “Goutte d’Eau”—literally “water drop”—although this term was quickly anglicized into the more appropriate “teardrop,” which endures to this day.
Whilst the Jeancart coupes all exhibited an elegant notch-backed side profile, the second-series cars were arguably even more pure in aesthetic terms, exhibiting as they did a simpler “fastback” tail section. Launched at the 1937 New York Auto Show, the second-series examples assumed the unofficial title of “New York” cars, and 11 were constructed in this style: 10 on 104-inch T150-C SS frames, and one on the longer 116-inch T23 chassis. Each was powered by a 140-horsepower version of the dependable T150-C engine.
THE SOLE COMPETITION TEARDROP
Believed to have been the penultimate “New York”-style car built, the magnificent example which RM Sotheby’s is honored to offer here, chassis 90117, has the distinction of being the only Goutte d’Eau coupe constructed expressly with competition in mind.
Originally commissioned by Philippe Régnier de Massa, a member of one of France’s oldest and most decorated noble families, it was ordered with several competition-inspired modifications, including additional driving lights, a 250-kph speedometer, a "semi-bucket" seat on the driver's side, reinforcement tubes and brackets in the engine bay, a long-range fuel tank, and an external fuel filler cap. Furthermore, according to Figoni’s son Claude, the car was two inches lower and four inches longer than any other Teardrop coupe in an attempt to minimize both frontal area and drag, and it featured both an opening rear window and a unique heart-shaped sunroof to aid ventilation.
Doubtless buoyed by the fine 3rd place achieved at Le Mans in 1938 by the Talbot-Lago Portout Coupe of Prenant and Morel, de Massa opted to enter his car in the 1939 edition; remarkably his first race of international standard. For reasons not entirely understood, the car was officially entered by British motor racing luminary and writer T.A.S.O. Mathieson—himself sharing a new T26 model in the race with Chinetti—with de Massa co-driven by Norbert-Jean Mahé, who had finished 9th in the 1934 event. The pair had been performing strongly in 9th place when they were eliminated from the race on the 88th lap, a retirement variously attributed to either a broken valve spring or disqualification following a contravention of the sporting regulations.
An appearance in an unnamed post-Le Mans Concours aside, no other outings are recorded for the car during de Massa’s ownership. With war having broken out barely 10 weeks after Le Mans, the car was reputedly confiscated by the Germans in or around 1942, and was eventually acquired in neglected, engineless state by a Herr A. Becker of Rangsdorf, near Berlin, shortly after hostilities ceased.
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in late 1989, 90117 was sold to Peter Schmitz, a resident of western Germany, who commenced a long-overdue restoration of the car. However, Herr Schmitz kept the car only until 1995, when it was sold in an unfinished state to Automuseum Deventer of Joure, in the Netherlands.
Although the car was separated from its engine at some point in the past, research on file indicates that a correct-type Talbot-Lago engine was located in the United Kingdom and subsequently fitted. A separate racing hood, a testament to its time at the Circuit de la Sarthe complete with cut-out holes for oil and coolant filler access, accompanies the sale of the car today.
In 1996, ownership of the car then passed to Georg Lingenbrink of San Diego, California. It was in the latter’s custody that a comprehensive six-year restoration commenced; the car being finished in the appropriately elegant color scheme of deep aubergine with contrasting tan pigskin leather upholstery, and tan cloth interior trim.
In 2006, chassis 90117 entered the esteemed Oscar Davis Collection, in whose custody it has remained ever since. Mr. Davis entrusted the car to respected restorers Classic and Sport Auto Refinishing concern of Edinburg, Virginia who assessed it exhaustively, and performed a further $100,000 of restoration work—of both a mechanical and cosmetic nature—in 2006 and 2007. In 2007 the car, remarkably, made its first public appearance in 68 years at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. It subsequently took a series of richly deserved wins at European counterpart, Villa d’Este, in 2010, including the juried Trofeo BMW Group - Best of Show and the publicly selected Trofeo BMW Groupe Italia. The Louis Vuitton Concours Classic Award, intended to recognize the “best of the best” among the world’s concours-winning automobiles, followed in 2011.
Impossibly stylish, exquisitely detailed, yet built on competition foundations offering spirited performance and standard-setting levels of refinement and ride quality, the Talbot-Lago “Goutte d’Eau” coupes remain amongst the most highly prized of all coachbuilt pre-war cars. Of the 11 “New York"-style examples constructed, 90117 remains among the most compelling; a car which intertwines Art Deco elegance with a brief but fascinating competition history, not to mention a period of prolonged (if unwitting) preservation behind the Iron Curtain and recent concours success.
Immaculately presented in the most fetching of color combinations, it remains equally—and perhaps uniquely—qualified for the world’s finest vintage tours, rallies, and concours as well as, somewhat incongruously, vintage racing events such as the Le Mans Classic and Monterey Historics. Guaranteed to steal the limelight at any event in which it is entered, this represents one of the most significant coachbuilt cars ever to be offered for public sale, and an opportunity which should be given serious consideration by any appropriately discerning collector.
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Kristina and I headed over to RM Sotheby's at the Monterey Conference Center to view some glorious cars at their auction preview.
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Had a blast with our auto-enthusiast friend and neighbor, Fred, at Monterey Car Week 2022.
c1910 color postcard view of Washington Street in Winchester, Indiana. This view was looking east through the Meridian Street intersection with the Randolph County Courthouse on the right. The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument stands on the northeast corner of the square. The base of the monument can be seen through the trees in the center of this view.
A three-story building stood on the northeast corner at Meridian Street. East of that were two two-story buildings and then the Masons Building and the K. of P. (Knights of Pythias) Building. The 1907 and 1914 Sanborn™ fire insurance map sets for Winchester show only one change in the types of businesses in these buildings. That was a grocery in the K. of P. building that was replaced by a notions shop. The only readable business sign on these buildings advertised a DRUGS store in the center of the block. Between the Meridian Street corner and the drugstore (114 West Washington Street), the other businesses were: a bank; a boots and shoes store; a moving pictures theatre; a hardware, stoves and paints store; and a grocery. In 1907, an opera house occupied the second floor of the second two-story building (116-118 West Washington Street). The third floor of the Masons Building is gone and so are the three buildings that were west of it. The K. of P. building is intact and still in use.
The other identifiable structure in this scene was the bell tower on the Friends Church that still stands at Washington and East Streets.
From the collection of Thomas Keesling.
A close-up section of this postcard can be seen here.
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The following additional information has been provided courtesy of David Enyart from his “Data Base of Indiana Court Houses.”
Randolph County was formed in 1818 entirely from land ceded from Wayne County. Randolph County was then expanded northward to the Indiana/Michigan state line until finally being reduced to its present manageable size. The third courthouse was constructed in 1877 and is still in use.
Details: Castle style architecture; National Historic Place
Cost: $80,090 - No fireproof vaults or central heating plan
Architect: J.C. Johnson
Plan Accepted: 4/8/1875
Paid: 3% of construction cost
Builder: A.J. Campfield
Contracted: 6/2/1875
Paid: $73,000
Accepted: 4/1/1877
J.C. Johnson, architect of the 1877 courthouse was self-taught but later became the state architect of Ohio. Johnson designed two Indiana Courthouses, this and the present Adams County Courthouse. He was also the construction architect of the 1878 Hamilton County Courthouse also built by Campfield after Edwin May was fired as the result of a disagreement with Campfield.
Both Adams and Randolph County’s Courthouses were copied from Johnson’s Defiance, Ohio Courthouse that had a front tower. The design of both Indiana Courthouses retained reinforcement for a front tower but both were built with center towers that were not sufficiently integrated with the basic structure. This led to serious structural problems with both towers. Periodic maintenance was required on this tower and ornate roof structures that did not occur in a timely manner which led to their removal in 1955. A need for roof remodeling was recognized at least as early as 1914.
When originally constructed, the 1877 Courthouse had entrances on the sides; these were removed in the early 1900’s to make room for more office space. When the roof was removed in 1955, the second floor was converted to a second and third floor and an elevator was added.
David has compiled additional information for this and the other 91 Indiana counties. Through David's generosity, all of that information can be found at the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. The web address is www.genealogycenter.info/search_incourthousehistories.php.
C-GVWJ - Boeing B-737-281A - WestJet
at Winnipeg International Airport (YWG) in October 2000
c/n 21.718 - built in 1979 for All Nippon Airways -
operated by WestJet between 12/1999 and 06/2006 -
final operator was Aerosur - retired
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
Local market in Sheki (Azerbaijan).
Sheki.
Situated 700m above sea level, like an amphitheatre surrounded by mountains and forests of oak trees, Sheki rises above fertile yaylags (pastures) and fields. The area is very picturesque, with narrow gorges and green valleys, springs, water falls and mineral water springs framed by dense woods and alpine meadows. In the town, you'll see old brick houses, shaded streets, weeping willow trees and canals carrying spring water. The original settlement dates back to the late bronze age. Once we enter recorded history, invaders were frequent visitors. Its name is believed to originate from the name of saks tribe that arrived in Azerbaijan in VII B.C. The city became very well known as a center of Sakasena region of Alban kingdom. When Christianity spread in the Caucasus, Sheki became one of its important centers. During the 7th century Sheki was taken by arab invaders becoming dependent on a local emirate - Sheki suffered from Arab-Khazar war for 150 years. However in the 9th century with the weakening of arab power a Christian state was re-established by the last remaining forces of the Albanian kings. It was later taken by the Shirvanshahs, the Mongols under Tamerlane and the Safavids. By the 18th century Sheki was capital of its own Khanate, only to be taken by the Russian Empire in 1805. Following the Russian revolution the Red Army eventually only took Sheki in 1920.
Sheki is long famed as a silk centre and an important stop on the silk route, Sheki is still the site of a huge factory that was once the Soviet Union's largest silk plant (such a big factory was naturally named after Lenin... - now ask for the 'ipek kombinat'). In its golden period the factory employed over 7.000 (out of a population reaching almost 100.000). Nowadays the silk industry is still alive, but through smaller private workshops. The agricultural activity is quite important, with tobacco, grapes, grain, nuts, cattle and milk as the the main products.
Producción de moda realizada para la revista C.I. en la tienda Comodo ubicada en el Drugstore. Lugar facilitado por su director Juan Pablo Fuentes.
Photographer: Me
Designer: Rodrigo Henriquez
Art direction: Sue wang
Concept: Carola Moya
Make up: Marcelo Celis
Model: Joanna Ferrari (ID Model)
Foto por Felipe Z.
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