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27 years old and still in service.
1985 Leyland Constructor OIL3102 hard at work in the Marches today -
Operated in definite no frills condition with a wonky indicator and rust visible around the cab, 3102 could be heard coming from a fair way away!
Fab.
La araña de jardín europea o araña de la cruz (Araneus diadematus) es una especie de araña araneomorfa de la familia Araneidae, caracterizada por unas manchas claras en su parte dorsal. Es muy común y sus telarañas espirales bien conocidas en Europa occidental. También vive en algunas zonas de América del Norte, en una región que se extiende desde Nueva Inglaterra hasta el sudeste de Estados Unidos y partes adyacentes de Canadá. Se alimenta de pequeños animales que caza con sus telarañas.
La coloración de cada individuo puede oscilar entre amarillo a gris muy oscuro, pero todos los individuos tienen marcas moteadas en el dorso con cinco o más puntos blancos grandes formando una cruz. Los puntos blancos son producidos por células que están rellenas de guanina, que es un subproducto del metabolismo de las proteínas
Las patas de esta especie (como muchas de las especies de arañas constructoras de telas orbiculares) están áltamente especializadas para la vida en la telaraña. Un buen ejemplo de ello es la reducción del tercer par de patas altamente implicado en la construcción de la tela y en envolver en seda a las presas así como en el desplazamiento por la telaraña.
Los machos miden entre 5 y 10 mm, a diferencia de las hembras, que llegan a medir de 12 a 17 mm.
Cuando se les molesta las arañas de jardín estridulan o chirrían (es el acto de producir un sonido frotando entre sí ciertas partes del cuerpo[cita requerida]), además de agitarse con violencia en su tela.
Es difícil provocar a una araña de jardín para que muerda; si lo hace, la picadura es ligeramente desagradable, aunque absolutamente inocua para el hombre.
Las hembras construyen grandes redes y se las puede ver cabeza abajo en sus telas, frecuentemente en el centro de éstas, esperando que una presa se enrede en ella. Es entonces cuándo la capturan y envuelven en seda antes de devorarlas. Cada noche comen su red junto a muchos de los insectos pequeños que han quedado atrapados en ella, un proceso que tarda unos minutos y que es seguido por la confección de una nueva tela la mañana siguiente.
El macho construye una telaraña de reclamo al borde de la tela de captura de la hembra, a la que ésta se dirije una vez esté dispuesta para el apareamiento. El acoplamiento tiene una duración de entre 10 y 20 segundos. A finales de verano la hembra pone en áreas protegidas varios capullos con huevos y muere poco después
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I must admit, I wasn't expecting to find anything like this at 11.30PM on a Sunday night in an airport Departures building!
Pictured is a 2000 Arrows-Supertec (Renault) A21 Grand Prix car. It was driven in 2000 by Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa and Dutchman Jos Verstappen.
After a couple of lacklustre seasons using their own in-house engines Arrows went into 2000 with a supply of Supertec-badged Renault V10 engines.
From being stuck at the tail of the field the team suddenly found itself catapulted into the midfield and was usually amongst the quickest cars through the speed traps.
Although quick, the cars were also unreliable. Both drivers would score points on two occasions, Verstappen finishing fifth in a wet Canadian Grand Prix and a season's best fourth in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
De la Rosa finished sixth in the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring and matched that result in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim later in the season, scoring a solitary point on each occasion.
The car pictured above is Chassis 2 and acted as the spare car for the first twelve rounds but was raced during the final three races of the season.
Chassis 2 was due to be raced in the Monaco Grand Prix following an accident during qualifying for de la Rosa's race car. However, the Spaniard crashed the car during the Sunday morning warm-up session and had to revert to the repaired race car, leaving the team without a spare for the race.
Unfortunately, the Spaniard was involved in a first lap collision and his day's work was over there and then due to a lack of a spare car!
The car was rested after the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend but a first lap accident for de la Rosa in Italy saw a race chassis written off.
Chassis 2 was dusted off and appeared at the United States Grand Prix as the race car for de la Rosa. The car qualified eighteenth but retired after half-distance with gearbox failure.
De la Rosa qualified the car thirteenth for the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka and would finish the race a lapped twelfth.
The final race of the season didn't last long for car or driver with de la Rosa being involved in a first lap collision at the second corner.
Verstappen and de la Rosa would finish twelfth and equal-fifteenth, respectively, in the Drivers Championship with Arrows seventh in the Constructors standings.
Pictured in September 2019 at Brussels South Charleroi Airport, Belgium.
Innishannon Steam & Vintage Rally 2004.
1965 Dublin registered Electricity Supply Board Scammell Constructor (BZI 848) at Dunkereen, Innishannon, Cork 6th June 2004.
A fine pair of Constructor tippers with Loosemores Transport from Shrewsbury are seen on reclamation work with Komatsu tracked shovel, back in 2004.
Seen leaving Tilcon's St. George Quarry, this OJ Jones of Porthmadog Constructor appears to have the 'Soma' rear axles normally found on the Scammell S26, rather than the normal Leyland/Albion or later Rockwell varieties.
Anyone know why?
SX 596 a Leyland Constructor eight wheel tipper dating from January 1990 was parked up on Agiou Georgiou in Ayia Napa, Cyprus on June 2nd 2018. It was apparently owned by Sofianos Constructions & Renovations Ltd.
The Scammell Constructor succeeded the Pioneer in heavy haulage work; but whereas the former was principally a military model, the Constructor was less commonly used as such. The British Army acquired some to tow 20-ton low-loading trailers. The large ballast box carried tools, equipment and ballast. This is a digitally-coloured version of an original monochrome version in the collection of Graham Newell, who has been very helpful in making his material available to me (23-Jun-18).
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This seems to doubling as a timber lorry and instruction vehicle. ATX 774X was seen in Dunstable in July 1986; new in 1982, it would only last until 1990.
Pentax K1000/50mm
Ilford FP4
Constructores, Builders, a mural by José Clemente Orozco in the stairway of the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso.
Rolls-Royce powered Constructor six-wheeled tipper 'Donnie Brasco' charges to the crusher with a full load of stone at Ven Ven's/Rainbow Mix quarry on Malta. Confined to quarry work only and now somewhat battered and reduced to a rigid six-wheeler, she was, nonetheless, still 'doing the business' causing dust clouds a few years ago.
Leyland Constructor 8 wheeler F228GND.
Run for the last 20 or so years by an owner driver, this lorry is now in the care of a skip firm. It is still in use and undergoing "tidying". It is on it's third engine and second cab - also its third body and second set of rear axles.
The current engine is a Rolls 340 TX which is a little asthmatic. The previous engine was a 325 which despite persistent water problems, pulled extremely well. Prior to this the lorry was fitted with a 270 which suffered a broken crankshaft.
The Rockwell rear axles are from a Foden - fitted due to their cross-locks -- if this gets stuck on a tip then the rest of the vehicles stand no chance!
The Leyland has also been fitted with rubber suspension to counteract the excessive rolling found with the steel suspension when travelling over bumpy ground. This also eliminates the numerous breakages found with the original installation.
The body was homemade around 10 years ago and was fitted when the chassis was lengthened.
The cab came from a Roadtrain found in Skegness -- the doors were cut down to fit.
A rare 30.19 Leyland Constructor with Gardner 201 engine from the Tarmac fleet. Seen in Ripple Lane in Barking Essex in 1982.
Believed to have now been cut-up in a Maltese scrapyard, Zahra Ltd's narrow-cabbed Leyland Constructor eight-wheeled mixer is seen in happier times when still working in 2008.
Well-looked after Leyland Constructor 30.30 eight wheeled tipper from the nomadic fleet of Regis Aggregates Ltd, then based at Cradley Heath. An early M-registered Leyland-Daf 75 eight wheeled tipper brings up the rear. The company finished some years ago now.
HSU159 Scammell Constructor was operated by W. Bull and Son of Tideswell, Buxton.
I have been unable to find any information on the history of this vehicle, either before or after the date of the photograph. I assume it was originally a military vehicle and I also wondered why so many of these heavy recovery lorries had Scottish (Glasgow) registrations.
A great looking vehicle you must agree -there was another one owned by Hoyer but was in Hoyer Livery and was the usual full cab version...also sold off at the same time...
I did plenty of laps around the yard in this -i loved it!
And positioned it for best pics etc..
This 1988 Leyland Constructor mixer with conveyor, joined the Edworthy's fleet in 1994. She served with the firm for ten years before retirement in 2004.
Leyland Constructor tipper in the ownership of Recycled Roadstone from the West Midlands. The Leyland was registered in Feb. 1987 and last on the road in 2000.
Blue Circle Cement's Scammell Constructor 8-legger powder tanker, when nearly new at their depot at Whitlingham near Norwich. Note the Bedford KM behind with old railway container on board.
John Surtess CBE
DRIVERS + MOTORING PERSONALITIES ALBUM
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Show goers were treated to a talk and question and answers session from John Surtess. Still sharp and entertaining he regailled the audience with stories and anecdotes from his career on two and four wheels.
John Surtees, CBE (11 February 1934 – 10 March 2017) was an English Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver. He was a four-time 500 cc motorcycle World Champion – winning that title in 1956, 1958, 1959 and 1960 – the Formula One World Champion in 1964, and remains the only person to have won World Championships on both two and four wheels. He founded the Surtees Racing Organisation team that competed as a constructor in Formula One, Formula 2 and Formula 5000 from 1970 to 1978. He was also the ambassador of the Racing Steps Foundation.
Surtees was the son of a south-London motorcycle dealer, Jack Surtess, himself an accomplished grasstrack competitor and in 1948 was the South Eastern Centre Sidecar Champion. Johns Motorsport debut came at the age of 14 in the sidecar of his Fathers Vincent, the duo won their race but were disqualified when race officials were made aware of Johns age. He entered his first race at 15 in a grasstrack competition. In 1950, at the age of 16, he went to work for the Vincent factory as an apprentice. He first came to prominence in 1951 when he gave Norton star Geoff Duke a strong challenge in an ACU race at the Thruxton Circuit. In 1955 he joined the Norton works team finishing the year with wins at Silvcerstone and Brands Hatch ahead of Champion Geoff Duke. The following year with Norton under financial pressure he moved to MV Augusta earning the nickname figlio del vento (son of the wind). In 1956 he won the first of his four 500cc World Championships. 1957 was dominated by Gilera but with their withdrawal from racing at the end of the season Surtees and MV Agusta went on to dominate the competition in the two larger displacement classes. In 1958, 1959 and 1960, he won 32 out of 39 races and became the first man to win the Senior TT at the Isle of Man TT three years in succession.
In 1960, at the age of 26, Surtees switched from motorcycles to cars full-time, making his Formula 1 debut racing for Team Lotus He made an immediate impact with a second-place finish in only his second Formula One World Championship race, at the 1960 British Grand Prix, and a pole position at his third, the 1960 Portuguese Grand Prix. He spent the 1961 and 1962 seasons racingfor Reg Parnell, with the Yeoman Credit Racing Team driving a Cooper T53 "Lowline" in 1961 and a V8 Lola Mk4, and the Bowmaker Racing Team. He moved to Ferrari for 1963 winning the World Drivers Title in 1964.
On 25 September 1965, he suffered major injuries following a crach at Mosport in a Lola T70. The injuries resulting in one side of his body reduced to four inches shorter than the other Doctors set most of the breaks nonsurgically, in part by physically stretching his shattered body until the right-left discrepancy was under an inch – and there it stayed. For 1966 F1 regulations now specified a capacity increase to 3 litre and inevitably there were teething problems with the new cars. Surtess finished a close second to Jack Brabham in the International Trophy but his Ferrari suffered mechanical problems in Monaco, while leading the race. He won an incident packed Belgian GP at Spa. But for Le Mans Ferrari entered only two P3 cars, and a dispute between Surtess and team manager Eugenio Dragoni led to him not being selected to drive. Subsequent lack of support from Enzo Ferrari himself were deeply upsetting to Surtees and he immediately quit the team. This decision likely cost both Ferrari and Surtees the Formula 1 Championship in 1966. Ferrari finished second to Brabham-Repco in the Constructors' Championship and Surtees finished second to Jack Brabham in the Drivers' Championship, he finished the season driving for the Cooper-Maserati team, winning the last race of the season.
Surtees competed with a T70 in the inaugural 1966 Can-Am season winning three of the six races and clinching the Championship.
For 1967 he signed for the new Honda Grand Prix team, after a third in South Africa the Honda RA273 hit a series of mechanical problems, and had to be replaced by the revised Honda RA300 for the Italian Grand Prix, where Surtees slipstreamed Jack Brabham to take Honda's second F1 victory, despite Hondas early season problems he finished fourth in the Drivers Championship.
In 1970, Surtees formed his own race team, the Surtees Racing Organisation, and spent nine seasons competing in Formula 5000, Formula 2 and Formula 1 as a constructor. He retired from competitive driving in 1972, the same year the team had their greatest success when Mike Hailwood won the European Formula 2 Championship
In 1996, Surtees was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. Already a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to motorsport In 2013 he was awarded the 2012 Segrave Trophy in recognition of multiple world championships, and being the only person to win world titles on 2 and 4 wheels
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Shot 28.10.2016 at The Alexandra Palace, London REF 124-113
1989 Leyland Constructor 24-26 260 Turbo tar sprayer operated by Colas, Grantham.
Scan of a purchased slide.
There are not as many left working now so it was nice to capture this very tidy one Tipping at the top of the quarry.