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Travel West Midlands first Optare Excel nears completion on the production line in Leeds, with Nottingham Solo 291 beyond. 12th November 1998
Safeguard of Guildford operate 3 Optare Excel. One of which was bought new whilst the other 2 started life with Tillingbourne of Cranleigh. One of the latter 2 X308CBT is seen on Stoke Rd 05/06/23 at 13:44.
William Fox-Pitt has the kind of famous name one sees in this sport; we've seen members of the royal family here too.
Fox-Pitt does not rest on the name, though I suspect he does rely on the money. He won his third Rolex Kentucky this year. The Rolex is one of a few five-star three-day events in the world.
Here he's jumping Trekehner on Seacookie, but he won on a different horse in 2014. It's not uncommon to qualify two horses.
Fun fact: Fox-Pitt is 196 cm tall.
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
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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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.
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
Sorry it took so long [https://www.flickr.com/photos/184730175@N04], but here's an Enviro 400 in First's Excel livery for some services around the Bristol area. Unfortunately I don't have all the branding for it, but did manage to get some decent 'Excel' logos. The bumpers, door and windows aren't quite the same, but this is meant to be one of the newer breeds of Enviro 400 with the later headlight design and E40D chassis (hence lack of n/s grille). In the end it does look a bit like a hybrid between pre and post-facelift versions.
Looking at photos, it appears First have a variety of E400s branded for Excel with different lengths and chassis types that vary in age and background. I was pleasantly surprised by the variety, as I expected a large operator like First to have a dreary batch of identical vehicles in the same brand... still I doubt the average passenger would notice the differences between all the E400s, which is the best of both worlds I suppose; uniformity for the passenger and variety for the enthusiast.
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
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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.
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MTS livery on a Hot Wheels RTS bus. Certainly not a pro photoshop job, but Excel has some pretty cool drawing tools. The logo is wonky on this, but the proportions of the Hot Wheels bus are off to bring it down to scale.
Optare Excel Y237 DRC fitted with Optare Bodywork and in use with Trent Barton wearing route branded livery for Rainbow 3 Service.
National Express Travel West Midlands Optare Excel 416. R416HWU in Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton on the 15th April 2009.
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.
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