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Stagecoach Chesterfield Optare Excel YN51VHK 35002 seen in the town centre on the 54 to Clay Cross, 12th May
A shot that was taken while out for a wander with P1ay and Paki Nuttah a few weeks ago.
The viewpoint is Victoria Dock, or as it is now known "Excel Marina"…i'll always know it as the former!
On Tuesday 14 September demonstrators protested outside the DSEI arms fair at EXCEL in East London on the first day it opened. Heavy rain didn't act as much of a deterrent to the dozens of activists who turned up.
The Arms Fair acts as a shop window attracts arms purchases from some of the worst authoritarian regimes in the world. Britain continues to act as a major weapons exporter to Saudi Arabia (which is conducting a deadly bombing campaign over Yemen), Egypt (which continues to wage a murderous counter insurgency campaign in Sinai), Israel which for the last 14 years has imposed a devastating blockade on Gaza and launched air assaults rendering tens of thousands of Gazans homeless and Bahrain which heavily relies on British equipment and training to prevent any progress to a more democratic government which would allow the majority Shia population (sympathetic to Iran) to have a majority say on policy.
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the final operational example in Wellglade ownership out of a large fleet of over a hundred owned, and had already been withdrawn from service, while the Scania was a recent transfer from Nottingham depot and retained its Trent Barton Cotgrave Connection livery.
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
Travel West Midlands first Optare Excel nears completion on the production line in Leeds, with Nottingham Solo 291 beyond. 12th November 1998
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
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.
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.
RailPictures is a popular target for foamer disdain, usually on account of their screening process (which I actually found to be quite helpful, and made me a much better photographer until I stopped submitting my work in 2010), although I prefer to rag on them on account of their near complete lack of innovation, dated design, and running ads for mail-order brides.
In any event, there were some comments on an Ian Hapsias shot that suggested RP was chugging along and more popular than ever... so, I hopped on the WayBack Machine and plugged their self-reported stats into Excel and found that it's not exactly the case - the average photo views per day peaked in late 2011.
I contend that most of this drop can be attributed to Flickr's increased marketshare in the railfan photo-realm, especially with respect to views coming from other rail photographers; Flickr (and a lack of time on my part) are why we abandoned plans to start a competing rail photo gallery website; I don't think there's much to be offered asides from what the existing platforms have now.
Updated March 13, 2014
The remaining Optare Excels in the Blackpool Transport fleet don't have long left in service. Their replacements are due in the next couple months and the first of the remaining Excels have already departed the fleet for scrap.
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With my normal lens still out of commission, I am using 50mm. Using this lens you really have to think about your composition as everything is very tight and you are forced to either take a step back or forward, which I love.
I recently bought some new toys and have not had a chance to use it any of them yet. One of my new toys is a small portable up lighter and I finally got to use it. I had turned it down to the lowest brightness and it was still to brighter, it was on red but changed colour with processing.
As it was the final stages of the blue hour, I used the spilt toning to changed the highlights to blue, decreased the highlights too, increased the clarity and finally added some vignetting in lightrooms.
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Excel 260 is seen arriving at Sutton-in Ashfield on the 141 service from Nottingham.
Tue 29th July 2014.
Company: Go Coastline
Fleetnumber: 8176
Registration: T876RBR
Chassis: Optare Excel
Bodywork: Optare
Location of Photo: Verne Road, West Chirton
Previous Registrations: N/A
New to: Go Northern (Fleetno: 8176)
Other Notes: N/A
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.
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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)
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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?
This is the eastern end of London's ExCeL Arena. To the right of the red cladding is an enormous sliding door. It was designed in Biggleswade to a high acoustic standard, to keep out the noise from City Airport. It is tall, so that boats for the London Boat Show can be taken in and out.
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.
McKindless YBZ1462 (R278EKH)
Optare Excel L1150 / Optare
Photo Date :- 09/2007
Photo Location :- McKindless depot, Bogside, Newmains, Lanarkshire.
Notes :-
New to EYMS as their 278 (R278EKH) 08/1997. Most likely McKindless would be its last owner.
Blackpool Transport Optare Excel T884RBR 221 seen near Blackpool North station on the 2, 29th May
All photos from this trip will appear on lukestransportphotos.smugmug.com/ over the next few days
Seen here is an example of the unloved Optare Excel integral vehicle R209 DKG, one of a number new to Cardiff in 1997. It had formerly been with Central Connect before being photographed here at a dealers in October 2009. It latterly operated with Edwards Coaches in Cardiff. Alongside it is seen Volvo B10B / Alexander M416 UNW that had been new to Yorkshire Woollen in 1994 and had latterly operated with Arriva North West. Unusually although a red band has been crudely applied to distingush it as a sold vehicle, the Arriva names have not been covered over.
The exterior of 2646 this time, despite appearances it's not at a bus rally! Funnily enough, many years ago it used to share a barn on an Edenbridge farm with my own buses, then in a very dishevelled state. Credit to my old mate Eddie Knorn for having to foresight to save it.