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Compass Bus' Dennis Dart SLF 4/Alexander Enviro 200 GX62 CNN which carries the company's corporate livery, is pictured here on Old Steine, Brighton, whilst working service 47 to Brighton Station. 02/08/16
Which way is south? The side that still has the leaves. Only useful until all the leaves fall off. :-)
Canon 30D. Not as sharp as you would like. Pixelization in the sky.
PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT and let me know what you think! This tattoo was designed and inked by Jonathan Kellogg of Crucial Tattoo in Salisbury MD.
Excerpt from the Origin of the Compass Rose by Bill Thoen
The compass rose has appeared on charts and maps since the 1300's when the portolan charts first made their appearance. The term "rose" comes from the figure's compass points resembling the petals of the well-known flower.
Originally, this device was used to indicate the directions of the winds (and it was then known as a wind rose), but the 32 points of the compass rose come from the directions of the eight major winds, the eight half-winds and the sixteen quarter-winds.
In the Middle Ages, the names of the winds were commonly known throughout the Mediterranean countries as tramontana (N), greco (NE), levante (E), siroco (SE), ostro (S), libeccio (SW), ponente (W) and maestro (NW). On portolan charts you can see the initials of these winds labeled around the edge as T, G, L, S, O, L, P, and M.
Delta Connection Embraer ERJ-175LR N609CZ operated by Compass Airlines lands at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport with a flight from Los Angeles. I heard today that the airline is due to cease operations within the next two weeks due to the impact of the current Coronavius outbreak - the world felt a very different place when I took this shot less than two months ago...
LKU86P was a Leyland Leopard PSU3C-4R Plaxton Supreme Express body. It had been new to Philipson, Dearneways of Goldthorpe in April 1976 as their #86. In became 1086 in the fleet of South Yorkshire PTE in December 1981 after the takeover of Dearneways and then passed to Compass of Wakefield.
Compass Travel have recently introduced a slightly modified livery with new style fleetnames, An early recipient is Enviro 200 YX18 KUE, originally used by First at Hinckley Point and recently acquired after a period on hire. It is seen at Washington this lunchtime, 17th March, 2023.
compass rose, image found at wicked good art (site now defunct)
caveat on site-- most of them are copyright free there is no guarantee that they all are so they do not recommend using them for commercial purposes.
This is the oldest of a number of buses acquired by Compass Bus from Seaford and District earlier this year. Dennis Dart SLF Plaxton Pointer 2 SD05 SEA - originally KX05 KFE - works a service 7 from Worthing Pier on 8th October 2018. In this case, the lack of a destination display is not due to a malfunctioning camera but reflects the true turnout of the vehicle.
Compass Bus took over service 32 on 1st June 2015, following previous operator Arriva's decision its financial performance was not good enough - Compass won the resulting Surrey CC tender process.
Four new Enviro200s were acquired for the route - an improvement over the Arriva vehicle offering. However, Compass increased the fares quite a bit, and the service is no longer covered by any real time information systems.
Here, SK15 HBD is seen heading down Somerset Road in Meadvale. The grass and laburnum look somewhat more summery than the equivalent Arriva photo I took a month prior to this!
Somerset Road, Meadvale, Reigate, Surrey.
It is supposed to say "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live life as imagined."
Trouble is it doens't all fit in. Look at the gap in the top left. Any ideas? what can I do?
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Another Compass Bus on the 100 today, 1st July, 2020, this time MX62 AKZ, new to Sheffield Community Transport and acquired from Seaford and District in 2018.
Recycled map pages, sterling silver, nylon coated steel cable, magnet.
Woven, riveted.
Making this piece was like solving a puzzle game where the words given to me were: movement, compass, circle and way.
Can you see how I connected the dots?
In April 2016 Compass Bus of Worthing Alexander Dennis E20D / Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 B29F YX16OCV passes through Weybridge working a shuttle service to the Spring Gathering at the Brooklands Museum.
As some of you know, one of my hobbies is paranormal investigation. My aim is to find strong evidence of the existence of life after death. I have used all sorts of kit, some useful and some not so useful. In an attempt to find a good way to communicate, I have made a compass Ouija. I got the idea when I was at an investigation at Anne of Cleeves house in Lewes. In one room, we appeared to be talking to a ship's captain. In another room, we appeared to be talking to someone who was rather freaked out by our electronic gadgetry, with its flashing LEDs. I wanted to design something that wouldn't look intimidating to someone from a pre-electronic age, that stood some chance of being manipulable, was capable of capturing language-based communication and that was as immune to human influence as possible. So, this. It is built on the principle that "spirits" appear to find it difficult to move physical objects, but can make changes to electromagnetic fields (such as setting off EMF meters). So, they should also be able to manipulate a compass needle, by the same principle. I finally found a large enough compass to be able to see and give us room for manoeuvre. I also needed something that could be sealed, to avoid breeze (this has a clear lid). I will be debuting it on Saturday, so will report back on whether it works. In spite of its size, I am dubious about whether movements will be precise enough to use the letters and numbers, but let's see. I always have the "Yes", "No" responses to fall back on.