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Notts & Derby Excel in Derby College 'rainbow' colours leaving Heanor on the Sundays 11 to Derby. Sun 12th April 2015.
A scan of an old photo taken in 1990.
Car: Lotus Excel.
Date of first registration: 31st December 1987.
Region of registration: London Central.
Latest recorded mileage: 58,573 (MOT 25th January 2020).
Also in photo (clockwise from centre left):
Vauxhall Astra mark 2
Renault 5
Ford Transit
(?)
Mitsubishi Shogun
Ford Granada mark 2.
Date taken: 28th May 1990.
Location: Castle Combe Circuit.
Album: Photo Scans
Stagecoach Chesterfield Optare Excel YN51VHK 35002 seen in the town centre on the 54 to Clay Cross, 12th May
Travel West Midlands first Optare Excel nears completion on the production line in Leeds, with Nottingham Solo 291 beyond. 12th November 1998
Notts & Derby Optare Excel 264 - Y264 DRC and Scania L94UB / Wright Solar 620 - FJ03 VWK are parked side by side in Derby depot. The Excel was the final operational example in Wellglade ownership out of a large fleet of over a hundred owned, and had already been withdrawn from service, while the Scania was a recent transfer from Nottingham depot and retained its Trent Barton Cotgrave Connection livery.
Originating with Stagecoach in the North West, this Alexander PS Type bodied Volvo B10M had passed to Excel and was seen here adjacent to Liverpool Street Station on a wet Sunday in July 2005. I think this was previously owned by Burnley & Pendle.
Car: Lotus Excel.
Engine: 2174cc in-line 4.
Year of manufacture: 1987.
Date of first registration in the UK: 1st August 1987.
Place of registration: Taunton.
Date of last MOT: 17th June 2023.
Mileage at last MOT: 60,018.
Date of last change of keeper: 22nd April 2022.
Number of previous keepers: 8.
Date taken: 14th May 2023.
Album: Classics in Cardiff May 2023
La campanya d'excavacions arqueològiques que s'ha fet durant tres setmanes al cim de Puiggraciós, a Bigues i Riells entre d'altres municipis, ha permès localitzar les restes de la muralla ibèrica d'un poblat ibèric, pràcticament desconegut fins ara. Aquests treballs formen part d'un projecte de recerca que estudia el territori de Lauro a partir de Puiggraciós mateix, el poblat ibèric de Puig del Castell de Samalús, i la revisió dels fons ibèrics que té el Museu de Granollers. Precisament, aquest equipament lidera el projecte, i en el cas de Puiggraciós, s'hi ha afegit l'Ajuntament de Bigues i Riells. “Tot plegat és necessari per explicar aquesta part del Vallès Oriental en època ibèrica”, explica Marc els murs, i segons l'arqueòleg, es pot constatar que no és una simple habitació. La paret fa 1,70 metres, uns gruixos fora de l'habitual, i disposa d'una porta d'accés. “Això vol dir que articula un espai, però sembla que sigui exempta, que no articula cap altra habitació en aquest punt. És com una gran estança d'aparença aïllada, amb uns murs com de muralla exterior, però estant a dins d'aquesta muralla”, especifica Guàrdia. L'arqueòleg remarca aquest inici excel·lent dels treballs a Puiggraciós.
La primera vegada que es va parlar d'aquest poblat ibèric va ser el 1940 per part de Salvador Llobet en un llibre, explica Guàrdia. Els únics indicis que es tenien, però, era ceràmica ibèrica i pedres. L'any 1950 es va fer una intervenció que va consistir en el buidatge d'una habitació de la qual sempre s'havia vist la part de dalt. “Tot això va caure en l'oblit. Era una certesa però ningú li va parar atenció”, comenta l'arqueòleg. “Ara, després d'aquests primers treballs ja podem començar a especular que podria ser un poblat ibèric.” La intervenció que s'ha fet aquest setembre va sorgir del projecte en què participa el Museu. “A partir d'aquí hem iniciat la recerca arqueològica del turó per avaluar el que hi havia.”
La campanya, que ha durat tres setmanes, s'ha centrat en tres zones concretes del turó. “Hem afinat la vista i hem anat quirúrgicament als llocs on crèiem que podria haver-hi més resultats, que ha estat el perímetre o la tanca d'aquest jaciment.” Aquesta primera campanya s'han centrat bàsicament a delimitar, més que a excavar. “És necessari buscar els límits per saber on som. I els que hem trobat donen un toc de qualitat, no ens esperàvem trobar aquesta tanca tan exagerada.” Guàrdia reconeix que tenien indicis que hi hauria resultats, però no creia que fossin tan positius com han acabat sent.
Font: El 9 Nou.
KaBoogie Optare Excel 2 L1180 NY03 JJF Seen at Grainger Street in the evening, working as a “Party Bus”. This particular Excel was new to Middlesbrough Council as a playbus in 2003 and has remained in the region ever since, passing onto KaBoogie in 2015 where it was converted into a “Party Bus” by Blackpool Design Coachbuilders. An article on this bus can be read here: bdc-uk.co.uk/party-bus/
08/07/2023
Scarborough based EYMS Excel 252 (R252PRH) passes All Saints Church at Hunmanby on it's way from Scarborough to Filey on service 118 this morning under autumn colours.
Car: Lotus Excel.
Engine: 2174cc in-line 4.
Year of manufacture: 1987.
Date of first registration in the UK: 1st August 1987.
Place of registration: Taunton.
Date of last MOT: 17th June 2023.
Mileage at last MOT: 60,018.
Date of last change of keeper: 22nd April 2022.
Number of previous keepers: 8.
Date taken: 14th May 2023.
Album: Classics in Cardiff May 2023
Pilkingtons Optare Excel S289RAG seen passing through Accrington Town Centre, 29th May
All photos from this trip will appear on lukestransportphotos.smugmug.com/ over the next few days
Malta's only example of an Optare Excel descends the winding and wet hairpins north of Naxxar seemingly out of service. Never Optare's most popular model, and an awful lot of bus to push around with a little Cummins B series. Before too long on the island, the bus had gained a Leyland hub-reduction rear axle in the Maltese tradition.
7207 was one of a batch of Optare Excels delivered new to the Travel London operation. Once finished with in London service some were transferred straight to the West Midlands, whilst others went to Dundee.
This example came to the West Midlands from Dundee and entered service in may 2009. It's seen 3 months later at work on the 255 to Merry Hill.
Saturday December 18th was the first day without Arriva services in Guildford. Having picked up the contract for service 18, Safeguard placed their AEC Reliance out into service to mark their first day, as well as allocating all three Excels for the day.
On service 3 was X307 CBT, seen here on its way back from Bellfields. The Reliance duplicated this journey and wasn't far behind.
Chertsey Street, Guildford, Surrey.
Excel 260 is seen arriving at Sutton-in Ashfield on the 141 service from Nottingham.
Tue 29th July 2014.
The TWM Excel was manufactured by Terry Wren Motors and is thought to be one of about 70 made. They were produced during the late 50s and early 60s. The firm went on to produce fibreglass housings for radar installations.
If there was ever a livery that was expected for me to put on an Optare Excel... this is not it. This is absolutely not it, but I did it anyway.
A thought I had before I remade the Excel drawing was what one would look like in the current 'Mango spare' TrentBarton livery. I think it looks quite good actually, which is a credit to the Excel for still looking modern, despite being about 25 years old. It's on the Skylink Express because there's always a spare on the Skylink Express.
Given TrentBarton's current vehicle shortage, they could probably do with a few of these. Though also given their current vehicle shortage, why did they keep withdrawing Solars and transferring Eclipses to Kinchbus and Solos to TM Travel when they knew they had nothing to replace them? Now they've run out of buses and I don't see anything from N&D/TM/Kinch going back the other way on loan.
Who cares? I made a thing.
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The Type 89 Lotus Excel, built from 1982 to 1992, is a front-engined, rear-wheel drive sports car designed and built by Lotus. It was based on the design of the earlier Lotus Eclat, which itself was based on the earlier Lotus Elite II.
Toyota engaged Lotus to assist with engineering work on the Supra. During this period, Toyota became a major shareholder in Lotus, later giving up their holding when General Motors bought Lotus.
Part of the deal between Lotus and Toyota included the use of many Toyota mechanical components in Lotus' cars. The original Excel (aka the Éclat Excel) used the W58 manual transmission, driveshafts, rear differential, 14x7 in alloy wheels, and door handles from the Supra Mk II, which was made from 1982 to 1986. The engine was the familiar all-aluminium, DOHC 2.2 L Lotus 912 Slant Four (which was used in the Lotus Esprit S3). During its lifetime, the Excel received two major upgrades with the introduction of the Excel SE (a 180 bhp/134 kW engine vs the standard 160 bhp/119 kW engined car) in 1985 and the Excel SA with automatic gearbox in 1986. Further facelifts in 1989 saw Citroen-derived mirrors, as featured on the Esprit, and 15 inch OZ alloy wheels to a similar pattern as the Esprit's.
According to Lotus records, only 1 Excel was manufactured to USA specification. The lack of release in the USA was due to the high emission regulations (which would hinder the car's performance), and poor sales of the car in Europe.
(Wikipedia)
Now at the very end of its life and about to donate some of its mechanicals to keep 693 running, TWM Excel 687 nears completion at Optare, 12 November 1998.
Ehh look it's an Excel on stilts.
In the space of a few weeks this summer I managed to go from having no Optare model bus kits to having three. One of them was an Excel 1 metal kit, which I intended to convert into one of NCT's Excel 2s. This was one of my shortest lived model plans ever, as within a month I'd procured myself this Excel 2 resin kit.
I know I've bodged Excels out of OOC Deltas before, but I always thought that if I were to ever do an NCT Excel model, I'd want the proper kit. Never expected to have two of them, though!
Because the metal kit has the front, rear, sides and roof all as individual pieces, there isn't really a way I could mock it up for a photo, but the resin one just slides together. It's on stilts because of the things the wheels are moulded onto (it took AGES to get it to balance like this) but you can sort of see what it looks like.
Unfortunately, it's banana-shaped. The middle is noticeably higher than the front and rear, especially along the window line. The whole bodyshell is slightly warped. The idea I had to fix it was to steam the bodyshell over a pan of boiling water, and hope that it went soft enough to bend back into shape without some other part warping in the process. Now, I did that, and it looks like it's worked, but the question now is will it stay fixed or next time I get it out of the box, will it be banana shaped again?