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Modular Scooter Dealer with Octan Headquarters, ground floor detail: Some nice flowers greet new customers as the enter the shop. Another helmet is displayed in the window, alongside the yellow scooter which has been decorated with the shop's checquered logo pattern.
Location: Düsseldorf - 587km from home.
(First of all - I don't know what T6 this is, Caravelle, Multivan, what's what?)
And yet another new Austrian plate format. This time, the "dealer" one, which is used for testplates and only granted to dealers and services. This plate can also serve as an official plate in Germany. I don't really feel they had to testdrive the car from Ried to Düsseldorf.
RI = Ried im Innkreis
Seen at the newest casino in Vegas...
Each player’s seat has stereo speakers, so she can talk to you…. Always perky and polit…
Wonder how the dealers union feels about this?
Visit a Lexus Car Dealer Room Gallery, I Expectation Different Color not to Sharp more color but Fashions Touch image
Another assignment we had was to create self-portraits depicting ourselves as what we AREN'T, inspired by the photographer Cindy Sherman.
here i am pretending to be a drug dealer.
the "coke" is flour.
haha.
Modular Scooter Dealer with Octan Headquarters, ground floor detail: The long-haired and bearded mechanic readies a brand new red-and-white scooter with white tires for sale.
This ex Leicester PD3A/1, chassis number L61398
GRY63D went from Leicester City Transport to Paul Sykes (dealer), Barnsley in September 1981 in exchange for Leyland PD2/1 FJF 193
In 9/9/2008 it passed to
LRA Rems Murr-Kreis
Kraftfahrzeug - Zulassungsbhorde
Alter Postplatz 10
71332 Waiblingen with German registration WN-WK774
and in 7/12/08 to
Retro BVBA
Bar L Borrekenslaan
2630 Aartseaar
Rik Leikens t/a Olympia Cars in 2015
by 2018 to 31 Coffee, Wigston, Leicester as a coffee shop bus, for sale 7/18 for £30000 on eBay www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Open-top-double-decker-bus/27333823700...
moseley cinderford bedfords ford and commer in stock the bedford plaxton nearest my camera was rwo 771m with hug 189n next to it a pencil note on the back shows 771 ex jones stibb cross. the little commer ktt 898p is ex garret newton abbot
Modular Scooter Dealer with Octan Headquarters, top floor detail: Close-up of the miniature race car.
Accompanied the ad in the enxt image along.
Interesting to see that Norfolk had just the one dealership, whereas Suffolk had three. St Christopher's at Leavenheath, (actually just along the road from Nayland) was almost in Essex and Watsons in Lowestoft could have served South Norfolk. I believe the latter went on to sell Mazda.
The Norfolk dealer Crown Service Station of Upwell was almost in Cambs. There is now a garage of that name in nearby Outwell, could it have been them? Apparently they movd in 2012.
Norfolk Fair magazine October 1972.
Our local Infiniti dealer has been in business for a while now, however I'm not sure they make a great many sales. I've rarely seen Infinitis on the road and the sales figures uploaded by Yugo Lada recently would rather back up the thought that Infiniti sales are a little thin on the ground at the moment.
The presence of a few second hand German cars on the forecourt (BMW, Merc, Audi) also rather suggests they're propping up the business with used prestige sales. I wonder how much longer this outlet will last...
This morning, Friday 25 October, saw raids on homes of suspected drug dealers as part of Challenger.
Agencies across Greater Manchester have joined forces to declare war on organised criminal gangs across the region.
This week has seen the launch of Challenger, the largest ever multi-agency response to tackling organised criminal gangs (OCGS) in Manchester's history.
Over the past five days, more than 100 warrants have been carried out by numerous agencies to root out the drug dealers, loan sharks, rogue landlords and counterfeit good suppliers who are the lynchpins of these criminal networks.
The aim of Challenger is to identify every single organised crime group in existence and use all the weapons available to agencies across both Manchester and the UK to disrupt, dismantle and destroy these gangs.
This week alone, more than 50 suspected members of criminal gangs have been arrested for a variety of offences including drugs, firearms and money laundering.
More than £330,000 worth of drugs were recovered, £25,000 in cash seized along with weapons such as high-powered air rifles, a BB gun, a Taser and a baton. Seven high powered cars were also seized.
Up to 50 tonnes worth of counterfeit goods - worth at least £2m - including fake trainers, watches and clothing, were also seized from three properties in the Strangeways area, all of which were stocked to the brim across several different floors with fake goods.
Detective Chief Superintendent Rebekah Sutcliffe, who heads Challenger for Greater Manchester Police, said: "Organised crime groups have a corrosive and insidious effect on our communities. These sorts of people mistakenly believe they 'own their turf' and use violence and intimidation to make people's lives a misery.
"However, this week we have brought the fight to these gangs and through Challenger we are now declaring war on these criminal networks who for too long have been bullying communities and enjoying a lavish lifestyle.
"Challenger is not about cutting off the head of a monster - it is about systematically dismantling these gangs member by member and making it impossible for them to operate. To do that, we need to get into the ribs of these people and hit them where it hurts.
"By working in partnership with so many other agencies, we can attack these gangs from every angle. We can expose benefit scams and leave these people penniless; we can seize their flash motors which are often not insured or taxed; we can shut down nail bars, takeaways and pubs where organised criminals often launder their dirty cash and we stop loan sharks from bullying victims into taking out exorbitant loans which fund their criminality.
"Through this partnership approach, Challenger will unmask every single organised crime group in Manchester and use every available tool to bring them crashing down."
There are currently more than 160 known organised criminal gangs in Greater Manchester, costing the local economy between 850m and 1.7bn each year.
However, it is thought they may be up to 500 of these networks in operation.
Thanks to Challenger, a central taskforce has been set up which will gather intelligence and build up an accurate picture of every single criminal gang in Manchester.
The taskforce will then work with partners from the local community, including neighbourhood policing teams, local authorities, Immigration Enforcement, the England Illegal Money Lending Team, housing providers, the Department for Work and Pensions, the DVLA, HMRC and other agencies to draw up bespoke plans for how best to dismantle these gangs.
In addition to this important local approach, Challenger is also being supported by the Home Office and the National Crime Agency (NCA). Officers from these national agencies are providing regular support and expertise about how best to tackle organised criminality.
But central to the success of Challenger will be the support of the local community and people coming forward with information about criminality in their area.
Detective Chief Superintendent Sutcliffe said: "There may be a misconception among people that organised criminality is all about drugs and guns and that it does not affect their lives. They could not be more wrong.
"Organised criminality is not just about firearms and drug dealing - it is happening on people's doorsteps every day without them realising it.
"The way these gangs fund their criminal empires is through the sale of counterfeit goods, loan sharking, electricity, housing and benefit scams, human trafficking and rogue landlords.
"If you suspect any of this is happening in your community, you need to report it because the endgame of these sorts of offences are the brutal shootings we saw last year that resulted in innocent people being killed.
"But, with your help, we can break this chain. If you don't buy counterfeit goods or turn to loan sharks you are cutting off the funds for these criminals to buy guns and drugs. If you report housing scams you will be making it impossible for these gangs to have bases from which to operate. If you report someone who is driving around in a flash motor you know is not insured, you will be stopping these cars from being used as getaway vehicle during serious crime.
"This is a war we can win with the public's help. We can give communities back to law-abiding people. If you help us to identify the foundations these empires are built on, we will bring them crashing down. And if you wish to report anything anonymously, you can do so by contacting Crimestoppers."
National Crime Agency regional head of investigations, Steve Baldwin, said: "Organised crime deprives people of their security and prosperity, leads to loss of life and costs the UK well over £20billion each year. It directly affects all of our communities. The NCA's role is to lead the UK's fight against organised crime. But to do that we need to work closely with our law enforcement partners like Greater Manchester Police, as we have done in supporting this operation. Together we will use every technique available to relentlessly and continuously disrupt serious organised criminals and make their lives as difficult as possible."
Jim Battle, Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner said: "These so-called 'Mr Bigs' think they can control our communities with a grip of fear. But the action taken by police, local councils and other agencies this week sends a clear message to these abhorrent individuals that there is no place for you in our communities - you will be hunted down and you will be brought to justice.
"The fight is ongoing and we can only keep up the pressure on these criminal gangs with the support of our communities across Greater Manchester. I thank the decent, law-abiding people for their continued help and urge you all to stand with us so together we can bring down these criminals and build safer communities."
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
retrato que hice de mi amiga ceci bosch para la muestra DEALERS de abril 2009, organizada por Lola Garcia Garrido
The strangeness of the space is more about the isolation than anything else. There is no, or little, distraction from self: no television, no radio, no internet, no camera to record, just a certain sitting, watching the snow fall, and melt, on the other 'whores'.
Perhaps the strangest part of this is that lack of camera and my indifference to this. I notice things, momentarily, say a strange oval (half ajar) window opposite on a blackened brick wall, with a sort of triffid-like stuffed flower hanging out of it, and when I see it now I don't record it anymore. I just look at it, register its strangeness, and let it go. I look down and see the furtive dealers on the street beneath, seeing them ply their desperate trade, or at least it seems desperate to me, although it might or might not be.
The street is full of tourists wearing strange ‘pixie’ hats with earflaps with AMSTERDAM emblazoned on them, for fear that they might forget, for a drug-addled instant, where they are. Doubtless these very hats were bought in the same shop where I have been selling them tee-shirts with the same place-identifying monogram, along with their miniature clog key-rings.
I have today and tomorrow off. These are strange liberation days as I almost miss the routine of my counterwork, and the knowledge that the coffers are being replenished. This will be a ‘me’ day. Sundries need washing and I have located a local launderette for this purpose. I am looking forward to an hour or two there with my new Duchamp book.
Food is a bit of a problem here for me. I have no fridge and am plagued with mice, so milk, muesli, a salad, and a prepared sandwich, have to be tied up in a bag and hung out the window, to keep them fresh (in the afore-mentioned snow) and safe from tiny teeth. I refuse to kill the mice as they have as much right to this abode as I have and, hopefully, they will be here long after I’ve passed through. I have to vacuum up their droppings every morning (with the trusty dust-buster supplied with the apartment). I was a little horrified yesterday when Guido, the owner of this mega-store to which I am attached, described his occasional all-night forays with a shot-gun killing vermin and foxes. Liking Guido, I find myself looking for reasons why this would be acceptable. Luckily the universe does not need my permission to manifest its cruelty. He has become very rich from his huge shop in Dam Square, selling kitsch to the masses. I have much to learn at his feet. I actually like him too, and his wife. They have cornered the market here exploiting sentimentality, totally unsentimentally. This pragmatism astounds me (and I want to develop some of it). I think it is related to the selling, and taxing, of the whores by the Calvinists in their transparent windows. It is, in essence, brutal and fair at the same time. I think this puts it closer to nature too, this brutal but fair balance, but no, on reconsideration, nature is not fair at all. For me, now, this seems more balanced than the self-sacrificial roles of saints, martyrs or mothers (I am definitely thinking catholic here, and the Mater Misericordia), that Irish staple. It is no surprise to me that these manifestations generated by commercial pragmatism are essentially masculine.
I like to think of you in your disarranged 'stuck' train, down some track, engrossed in your book, any book. Duchamp had a wistful title 'Sad Young Man in a Train. I see you savouring this space between places. That is a little of how I feel now. It is less than sad though, definitely more wistful, more to do with reverie than loss, and if it is of loss, it is of missed possibility, what could have been. I like this though too as it often makes us look at what is. Sometimes I have to remind myself that these moments are the 'good' times.
I feel that I have gotten to this strange plateau where I no longer need to be loved, except of course by myself. That longing for another seems to have evaporated. I sit (now less often than before) in my favourite bar listening to those 'Sweet Dreams of You' songs, and 'I was half, now I'm whole' ditties and I want to slap the whining warblers. I am a little appalled at the notion of building my life around someone else other than me. I guess children draw you into that completely and the emergence at the other end, when they start to look for their 'other halves'; that rejection must be brutal. That it coincides with this withdrawal of that hormone that provoked the original bringing them into being, with its palpitations and hot flushes, must be one of nature’s cruelest jokes. I realise you want them to go but know that with them goes part of what might have become your 'reason', how you might have come to define yourself in those years they needed you terribly. But then this might just be a very clear manifestation of our beloved Mr. Darwin's 'Survival of the Fittest', so that as we watch each other struggle with our lives, we remind each other that these outcomes are actually the results of our ‘choices’. But don’t start me on the subject of ‘choice’, we could be here all day. This slightly reminds me of that time you (or I) spend at the bedside of a dying loved one. There is nothing to do at all but to keep them calm, to reassure them that all will be OK, even though we have no evidence of this. We offer that balm anyway. There really is nothing else we can say and for the most part nothing else we can give to each other except this 'empty' encouragement. Mr. Beckett described this well, and the possibility, even, of being the one to give that encouragement to oneself. He also somewhat described our ‘Flickr’ habit , this record we try to make, too in his 'Krapp's Last Tape', that habit of recording ourselves so that we could measure ourselves now against where we were then; that searching for signs of progress where there might actually only be repetition.
You might be horrified by this space. It is strange, to say the least. It has a blow-up mattress that seems to have ruptured somewhere in its interior so half of it is a hill, and almost impossible to sleep on, whilst the other half is normal, but needs pumping up every night, and sometimes again in the middle of the night. I have those mice to co-exist with, my fellow whores. There is a toilet and shell-shaped pink bath next to the bed, and the kitchen sink a few feet away. This would be to facilitate ablutions between 'Johns', or to allow the client to wash. It is one whole floor walk-though, with that non-bed, as described, plus a toilet and a bath in one open space. There are front and back windows, one looking out on the teeming tourists enjoying the Red-Light District, and the other framing the scaffolded steeple of the church where Rembrandt’s Saskia is buried.
It is, strangely, the sore heart of this pragmatic place.
I am, most definitely, not there anymore.