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Würzburg is een stad met overzichtelijke afmetingen en de trams die er tijdens mijn eerste bezoek in 1977 dienst deden, waren compact. Ook de grootte van het in 1954 opgeleverde stationsgebouw is afgestemd op de behoefte van een provinciestad. Het voor de jaren vijftig karakteristieke stationsgebouw is ontworpen door architect Hans Kern. De kraam met worstjes voor de uitgang van het station ontbreekt uiteraard niet.
De enkelgelede Düwag-tram heeft ook deuren aan de linker zijde. Op het achterbalkon is een hulpstuurstand aangebracht. De wagens konden zodoende bij behoefte in tweerichtingbedrijf gebruikt worden. Primair zijn de wagens echter voor eenrichtingbedrijf ingericht. Men sprak in dit geval ook wel van anderhalfrichtingwagens. Op de kopwand zien we de verschillende contactdozen voor bijwagenbedrijf. Destijds werd er op werkdagen nog met kleine tweeassige bijwagens achter deze gelede trams gereden.
Tram 233 maakt deel uit van een serie van tien enkelgelde zesassers die in 1967 en 1968 door Düwag werden geleverd. Vanwege het krappe profiel van vrij ruimte zijn de koppen sterk afgeschuind. In 1982 werden de wagens door het invoegen van een nieuwe tussenbak verlengd tot dubbelgelede achtassers.
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The final to my future-auto exploration. This time, based on several retro-future compact-car designs (including by Syd Mead of course). Ironically, this is the only of the three that actually fits a full figure.
The purpose of the three cars was to look at what I consider the three main areas of consumer-cars in futuristic media: Luxury, Show, and Utility. I am disregarding Industrial and Military as I have made a ton of the former already and I don't really like the latter.
The compact disc was introduced in 1982 and became in 1988 the most popular audio format. CD sales continued to grow until they peaked in 2002.
In 2003 CD sales began to decline and have been rapidly falling ever since. By 2017, CD sales had reached the same level as 1985!
Digital streaming has made it easy to instantly enjoy new music from around the world. It’s fast. It’s convenient. It’s one of the best ways for artists to get their music discovered.
But it’s unfortunately not really profitable.
2021 marked the first increase in new CD sales in 17 years! Artists have embraced CDs as a physical representation of their music, drawing in new collectors and fans. CDs have experienced a remarkable comeback, reaffirming their position as a timeless and treasured format in the music industry.
To me, it would seem that a dandelion bloom would be somehow different than this. I think that it's because a dandelion's fibers are all so scattered, at first glance, that it seems unlikely that they start out so orderly. Then the reasoning kicks in that dandelions use air dispersal to get their offspring away from the parent plant. Of course, then, there isn't a random combination of structures. They must be grown specifically to take advantage of being both light and fluffy.
Still with me? Gone to take a snooze?
Olympus OM2 w/ 135mm f/3.5
Fujicolor Superia X-Tra 400, expired 05/2019
Home Developed in Argentix.ca C-41 kit (Unicolor)
Pakon F135
A very early ‘poverty spec’ Persona Compact. This one looks to have been loved by its long term owner, including a nine year stint of being parked up, until it was recommissioned in 2014. This has no doubt aided its survival! Despite Protons initial success in the UK, later models like these never quite took off compared to what Kia and Hyundai were offering. This is evident in their low survival rates nowadays. Of the entry level 1996 GLi model this is 1 of 7 left both taxed and on SORN. Quite sad really seeing as they were very capable cars. For the record, only the very first GLi models got black bumpers making this an even more significant survivor.
Mileage in between MOTs - 186 Miles
Mileage at last MOT - 35,995 Miles
Last Ownership Change - 6th March 2000
N963 JUG
✓ SORN
✗ MOT
Expired: 2 February 2019
Late 70's shot of a load of used Chryslers. I have another view of this rig but I found this better pic on FB.
These tiny leaves are sort of peculiar. I don't know if the plant is dehydrated or if it's just a part of the physiology of the plant, but the stem of the leaf looks rather flat, doesn't it? Plants are such bizarre creatures in the first place when you compare them to animals.
Almost exclusively do they not rely on other animals for direct nutrition. Almost all of them are rooted in one way or another to a substrate. Their gross anatomy is so unlike ours.
Then again. Earth teems with plants. Maybe we're the odd ones.
The small size of the Black Hills Central's Baldwin 2-6-6-2 tank locomotives--38 foot wheelbase-- can really be seen from above--in this aerial view, #108 has topped the steep initial climb out of Hill City and is now winding between the hills on a light downgrade before the drop into Keystone.
What a moment!
Two at the same time. One on my front, one on my back.
Shots with compact sony manual mode.
A nearby compact blue dwarf galaxy, NGC 5253 was imaged with Hubble's High Resolution Channel (HRC) on the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) to produce this image. A lot of hydrogen gas is present here and is most evident in the narrowband H-alpha filter which appears here in vivid reddish magenta. Numerous young, massive star clusters full of massive stars are visible as mottled, bright, blueish patches.
This is a very close look at the nucleus and star-forming region of the galaxy. Just enough detail is revealed for me to guess at what I'm looking at, and yet not quite enough for me to feel sure. One of the bright patches near the center is rounder and slightly yellower, causing me to suspect it is an old globular cluster. What is interesting to me is that some of the bluer clusters visually appear to have comparable diameters and densities. Pretty impressive. I suspect they contain fewer but brighter, more massive stars.
I am fond of these old ACS/HRC datasets because they are comparatively rare since the HRC stopped functioning in June 2006 and never came back online even after the servicing mission which repaired the rest of the ACS. The observations comprising this image were acquired five months prior in February 2006.
Glancing at the abstract for this paper, we might expect this to one day be observed by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Data primarily came from the following Proposal: Sizes, Shapes, and SEDs: Searching for Mass Segregation in the Super Star Clusters of Nearby Starburst Galaxies
Note: Some lower resolution ACS/WFC data from LEGUS (Proposal 10765) was used to fill in the missing data where the occulting finger was. Some older WFPC2 F656N data from Proposal 6524 was used to slightly enhance the ACS/HRC F656N data.
Red: ACS/HRC F814W + ACS/HRC F656N
Green: ACS/HRC F550M
Blue: ACS/HRC F435W + ACS/HRC F330W
North is NOT up. It is 25.4° clockwise from up.
Car: BMW 316 Compact (E36/5)
Date of first registration: 6th March 1995.
Registration region: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
Latest recorded mileage: 61,125 (MOT 9th November 2018).
Date taken: 19th March 2019.
Album: Street Spots
Participant in the Classic Tracks Targa Rally, organised by Llandysul Motor Club.
Car: BMW 316i SE Compact.
Year of manufacture: 2000.
Date of first registration in the UK: 2nd June 2000.
Place of registration: Nottingham (for Stoke on Trent).
Date of last MOT: 26th January 2023.
Mileage at last MOT: 83,826.
Date of last change of keeper: 1st December 2021.
Number of previous keepers: 7.
Date taken: 28th May 2023.