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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
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.
On Sunday 11 September a group of around fifty demonstrators protested the DSEI arms fair at EXCEL in East London - which acts as a shop window designed to attract arms purchases from some of the worst authoritarian regimes in the world. They seemed to be heavily outnumbered by police officers with presumably other officers held nearby in reserve.
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) 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.
Optare built over 600 examples of the Excel between 1995 and 2004 (inc), sandwiched between the Sigma on 'step entrance' Dennis Lance chassis and the Tempo.
Reading Buses was a major customer, taking 48 (numbered 901-45 & 961-3) between 1997 and 2000, split over several batches. The first 45 were 11.5m examples, whilst the final three were 11.8m. When the batch of seven delivered in Autumn 1998 (925-31) came up for withdrawal and sale in late 2009, five found their way to South Wales operators. New Adventure Travel purchased S925/9/31 LBL and South Wales Transport received S926/30 LBL.
Those with New Adventure Travel entered service in early 2010 at Pontypridd depot on Service 102 (Glyncoch-Pontypridd-Rhydyfelin), for which they received branding, though lasted for less than two years.
S929 LBL was one of several vehicles in the fleet to carry registration H2 KFJ over time, as illustrated in this November 2010 shot taken on Bridge Street in the town centre when heading for Rhydyfelin. It would seem that she ended her days with the company.
Travel West Midlands first Optare Excel nears completion on the production line in Leeds, with Nottingham Solo 291 beyond. 12th November 1998
Mosteiro de S. Martinho de Tibães
Braga, Portugal.
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ADIÓS, RÍOS; ADIÓS, FONTES;
(cantares gallegos)
Adiós, ríos; adiós, fontes;
adiós, regatos pequeños;
adiós, vista d'os meus ollos,
non sei cándo nos veremos.
Miña terra, miña terra,
terra donde m'eu criei,
hortiña que quero tanto,
figueiriñas que prantei.
Prados, ríos, arboredas,
pinares que move o vento,
paxariños piadores,
casiñas d'o meu contento.
Muiño d'os castañares,
noites craras d'o luar,
campaniñas timbradoiras
d'a igrexiña d'o lugar.
Amoriñas d'as silveiras
que eu lle daba ô meu amor,
camiñiños antr'o millo,
¡adiós para sempr'adiós!
¡Adiós, gloria! ¡Adiós, contento!
¡Deixo a casa onde nascín,
deixo a aldea que conoço,
por un mundo que non vin!
Deixo amigos por extraños,
deixo a veiga pol-o mar;
deixo, en fin, canto ben quero...
¡quén puidera non deixar!
Mais son probe, e, malpocado,
a miña terra n'e miña,
qu'hastra lle dan de prestado
a beira por que camiña
ô que nasceu desdichado.
Tèñovos, pois, que deixar,
hortiña, que tanto amei,
forgueiriña d'o meu lar,
arboriños que prantei,
fontiña d'o cabañar.
Adiós, adiós, que me vou,
herbiñas d'o camposanto,
donde meu pai se enterrou,
herbiñas que biquei tanto,
terriña que nos criou.
Adiós, Virxe d'a Asuncion
branca com'un serafín:
lévovos n-o corazón;
pedidelle á Dios por min,
miña Virxe d'a Asunción.
Xa s'oyen lonxe, moi lonxe,
as campanas d'o pomar;
para min, ¡ai!, coitadiño,
nunca máis han de tocar.
Xa s'oyen lonxe, máis lonxe...
Cada balad'é un delor;
voume soyo, sin arrimo...
miña terra, ¡adiós!, ¡adiós!
¡Adiós tamén, queridiña...
Adiós por sempre quizáis!...
Dígoche este adiós chorando
desd'a veiriña d'o mar.
Non m'olvides, queridiña,
si morro de soidás...
tantas légoas mar adentro...
¡Miña casiña!, ¡mue lar!
Rosalía de Castro
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Rosalía de Castro nasceu em Santiago de Compostela, Espanha, em Fevereiro de 1837. Aos vinte anos publicou o seu primeiro livro de poemas, La Flor, ao qual se seguiram Cantares gallegos (1863) e Folhas Novas (1880), ambos em língua galega. A sua obra mais conhecida e lida em Espanha, En las orillas del Sar, foi publicada em castelhano no ano de 1884. Os seus poemas, desprovidos de esperança, são um ponto de partida para a lírica moderna. Rompem com as formas métricas do seu tempo, representando imagens inquietantes e pouco convencionais. Escreveu também algumas novelas, mas foi com os poemas galegos que se projectou na história da poesia moderna
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"Rosalía de Castro was born María Resalía Rita in 1837 to unknown parents in Santiago. Little is known of her childhood or education, other than that she excelled in research, and enjoyed drawing, writing, and musical studies.
Castro began writing at the age of twelve, and by seventeen was already known at the Liceo de San Agustín. In 1855, she married Manuel Martinez Murguía, who was a scholar of Galicia. The following year, she gave birth to their first of seven children, a daughter named Alejandra. The family moved often, between Madrid and Simancas, while Rosalía dedicated her life to raising her children and supporting her husband in his work. She never desired fame, and was in fact persuaded by her husband to have her first works published. In her lifetime, she published three full books: La Flor, Cantares, and En las orillas del Sar, the latter of which is considered by many scholars to be a masterpiece in Castilian that prepared the way for the modern metric form in Castilian that many Spanish poets still use today.
In 1885, at 48 years of age, Rosalía de Castro died of cancer at Padrón, her house that has since been turned into a museum. All of her children preceded her in death, leaving the family without any heirs."
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.
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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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Optare built over 600 examples of the Excel between 1995 and 2004 (inc), sandwiched between the Sigma on 'step entrance' Dennis Lance chassis and the Tempo.
Richards Bros operated two - 10.7m P508 NWU and 11.8m YN53 ELH, both of which were former demonstrators - whilst a third, 10.7m N205 LCK, was acquired just for spares. YN53 ELH was trialled in late 2003 and returned to Optare, but was acquired in early 2004.
She was perhaps the more prominent being allocated to Service 412 (Cardigan-Newport-Fishguard-Haverfordwest), for which she carried branding. This is evident in this April 2014 shot of her entering Haverfordwest Bus Station when returning to Cardigan (Aberteifi), with Silcox UVG-bodied Dennis Javelin P780 WDE laying over. She was withdrawn four years later, used for spares and sold for scrap in c.2020.
So much has changed in the ensuing years - Service 412 is now part of TrawsCymru Service T5 and has been extended up the coast to Aberystwyth, Silcox ceased trading in June 2016 and Haverfordwest Bus Station and adjoining multi-storey car park have been demolished and a new facility is currently being built on the site.
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
So I'm helping a friend of mine with some research. I know my way around M.S. Excel and he, well, let's say he knows were to find the computers on/off switch. This research is about arrival of planes and the delivery of goods at the platform/gate, incoming as well as leaving. To get the goods from the depots to the platform they use tugs. And another source of inspiration was found...
The carts, as your trained eye detected immediately, are really simple, yet I'm quiet pleased with the elegance. The tug however, ain't so elegant. And neither is it simple. The snot work? There is not a direction it isn't going (Okay, no upside down).
Manufacturer: Boeing
Operator: Excel Airine
Type 737-3L9 (G-SWRD)
Location: Gibraltar International AIrport.
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?
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.
Optare built over 600 examples of the Excel between 1995 and 2004 (inc), sandwiched between the Sigma on 'step entrance' Dennis Lance chassis and the Tempo.
Reading Buses was a major customer, taking 48 (numbered 901-45 & 961-3) between 1997 and 2000, split over several batches. The first 45 were 11.5m examples, whilst the final three were 11.8m. When the batch of seven delivered in Autumn 1998 (925-31) came up for withdrawal and sale in late 2009, five found their way to South Wales operators. New Adventure Travel purchased S925/9/31 LBL and South Wales Transport received S926/30 LBL.
Those with New Adventure Travel entered service in early 2010 at Pontypridd depot on Service 102 (Glyncoch-Pontypridd-Rhydyfelin), for which they received branding, though lasted for less than two years.
This shot of S925 LBL was taken in August 2011 as she was passing along Gelliwasted Road in the town centre when heading for Glyncoch. Unfortunately the LED displays fitted by the company seldom yielded a destination at a fast shutter speed.
She was subsequently exported to Turin and by early 2024 was in use as a 'Discobus'.
Ashfield based Excel 235 put in a most unusual appearance on the Ripley - Aldercar 1A on 13 april 2012. Showing Sutton in the destination blind passing the Butchers Arms, Langley en route to Aldercar. The return working also showed Sutton.