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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.
Back to Tonys again and just a small sample of his extensive Leyland fleet around lying around his two yards and
some he has has made roadworthy just ready for a bit of Movie action!
Thank you Tony for making us Welcome!!
1990 Leyland Constructor 30-30 recovery truck operated by WFL Recovery, Cambridge.
DVLA have the colour as blue.
Lionel.T.Philips, Rolls Royce powered Constructor 8 wheeler, started-out as a Bulker before being converted to a tipper. I don't think it saw any work in this guise before the firm packed-in.
Tegus is colorful, green and very interesting. If not for the crime rate, I would love to live here for a year or two. When driving, it's all about up and down the hills. I love their colorful houses. It's something I don't see much in Yerevan, because Soviet era buildings prevail here.
I managed to capture this while driving. The men were having their lunch break.
Thanks for your visit and have a great day!
P.S. I don't know why Flickr does this every time, but if in the morning their new layout worked so-so for me, now it really drives me mad. I can't figure out how to add photos to groups or sets, and everything looks messed up :(
Island Constructor multi purpose offshore vessel passing down our port side heading for Mekjarvik, Norway.
We departed Stavanger heading south
Design: Ulstein SX 121 X-Bow
Riserless Light Well Intervention (RLWI)
DP-3 class vessel
IMO: 9390678
Vessel Type - Detailed: Multi purpose offshore vessel & well-stimulation
MMSI: 259749000
Call Sign: LFXT3
Flag: Norway
Gross Tonnage: 11602
Summer DWT: 8700 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 120.2 x 25 m
Year Built: 2008
Registered owner: ISLAND OFFSHORE III KS
Ship manager/Commercial manager & ISM: ISLAND OFFSHORE MANAGEMENT AS
Shipyard: Ulstein Verft AS, Ulsteinwik, Norway
Yard Number: 279
Deck Area: 1,470 m2
Accommodation: 90
Moonpool: 8000 x 8000 mm
Crane: x1 National Oilwell, SWL 140t – 11m / 40t – 30m
ROV: x2 WROV permanently installed in garage with heavy weather LARS
Tower: National Oilwell MHT SWL 100t
Typical Works: Light well intervention services and associated services, Construction work, Subsea installation work, Securing of wells, P&A work, Tower and module handling, Crane work, Survey work, IMR work, Supply duties, X-tree installation
Main Engine: x2 Rolls Royce Bergen B32:40L9P @ MCR 4320kW each @ 720RPM and x2 unlisted model @ MCR 2880kW each @ 720RPM
x2 Tunnel bow thruster controllable pitch prop @ 1920kW each
x1 Retractable bow thruster controllable pitch prop @ 1800kW
x1 Retractable stern thruster controllable pitch prop @ 1800kW
Propulsion: x2 azimuth thrusters controllable pitch prop, 3000mm each @ 3500kW @ 201RPM
Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.
Taken at Darlton quarry. This Constructor had been new to Wimpey and operated out of Darlton. I think Alf bought it off Steve Hall.
Robert Hobbs and later Wimpey Hobbs, ran a number of these specially built Constructor City, lightweight 8 wheelers, which appear to have been specifically built for them, before Leyland launched their narrow cab eight wheeler on the market.
White Constructor, This truck sat in this location at least 5 years. Every time I passed, I said I need to photograph this thing. By summer of that year, it had disappeared, and was more than likely hauled off for scrap. West Newton, PA. 1-18-2006
fb, 2/03/2016
A dual purpose lorry in a style well favoured in north-east Scotland, for tipping and platform haulage.
Tidy 1986 Leyland Constructor 30-25 with West Devon & North Cornwall Farmers, based at their Holsworthy depot. The firm ran a number of Leylands and this one was last on the road in 1996.
I can remember the constructor when it was introduced replacing the Octopus ,Routeman, Bison super mastiff and Reiver a real exciting time in my young life at the time, then I found out about women and drink and I must admit I strayed a bit! he he. Well here I am 30 yrs later and I find My interest in constructors returning they are less trouble than women and much more reliable, allthough I havent completely given up on the drink, lol.
Henry the Constructor is inspired by the construction industry and is an attempt to bring a lively and fun character to the trail that both adults and children will easily relate to and enjoy. It mainly draws inspiration from Bob the Builder and portrays that with a positive attitude no problem is too difficult to solve.
Designed by: Deven Bhurke
Deven Bhurke is an artist and graphic designer who has been involved in many Wild in Art events up and down the country. His work has appeared in the Big Hoot in Birmingham, GoGo Dragons in Norwich and Barons in Lincoln.
Sponsored by: Henry Boot Construction
Auction Price: £5000
Summer 2016, a herd of elephant sculptures descended on Sheffield for the biggest public art event the city has ever seen!
58 elephant sculptures, each uniquely decorated by artists, descended on Sheffield’s parks and open spaces, creating one of the biggest mass participation arts events the city has ever seen. Did you find them all?
The trail of elephants celebrates Sheffield’s creativity with over 75% of artists from the city. Some well-known names include Pete McKee, James Green, Jonathan Wilkinson and Lydia Monks – each of which has put their own creative mark on a 1.6m tall fibreglass elephant sculpture. They are all very difference, take a selfie with your favourite as they will be on display until the end of September.
International artist Mark Alexander, who is currently working with Rembrandt for an exhibition in Berlin, flew to Sheffield especially to paint his elephant and international players from the World Snooker Championship signed SnookHerd, an elephant celebrating the heritage of snooker in Sheffield.
The Arctic Monkeys, famous for their love of their home city, added their signatures to their own personalised sculpture which pays homage to the striking sound wave cover of the band’s 2013 album “AM”.
By supporting the Herd of Sheffield you are investing in the future of Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Every penny raised will go towards our Artfelt programme, which transforms the hospital’s walls and spaces with bright art, helping children recover in an environment tailored to them. The programme also puts on workshops for youngsters to provide distraction during anxious moments – such as before an operation, and to breakup long stays on the wards.
This exciting Wild in Art event brought to you by The Children’s Hospital Charity will:
Unite our city – bringing businesses, communities, artists, individuals and schools together to create a FREE sculpture trail which is accessible to all.
Attract more visitors – both nationally and regionally as well as encouraging thousands of people to become a tourist in their own city.
Invest in the future – with a city wide education programme that can be used for years to come and by funding a life-saving piece of medical equipment at Sheffield Children’s Hospital from the Herd auction at the end of the trail.
Showcase our city – celebrating Sheffield’s heritage and cementing our status as a vibrant and culturally exciting city through this world-class initiative.
The Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend was held on 14-16 October and was your chance to say a last goodbye to all 58 large elephant sculptures as they gather in one place for a final send-off at Meadowhall.
This special event gave visitors a chance to see the entire herd in all its glory – from the signed Arctic Monkeys’ ‘AM’ elephant, right through to ‘SnookHerd’, autographed by a host of international snooker players including current world champion Mark Selby.
Please note that the Little Herd elephants will not be on display as they will be returned to their school for pupils to enjoy.
Meadowhall, along with its joint owners, British Land are very proud to be supporting The Children’s Hospital Charity as host sponsors for the Herd of Sheffield Farewell Weekend.
Auction: Hundreds of elephant enthusiasts gathered at the Crucible on 20 October for the Herd of Sheffield Auction, which raised a total of £410,600 for The Children’s Hospital Charity.