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TrentBarton Excel 257 still going strong on frontline duty working Rainbow 1 through Langley Mill.
Thu 3rd March 2016.
Cincinnati - Municipal / Lunken Field (LUK / KLUK)
Cincinnati, OH
Cessna 560XL Citation Excel c/n 560-5252, N501UP, Untitled (Contour Aviation)
-VTE7501 to KLUK from KCMH
Optare Excel T714NOE is seen approaching Wolverhampton bus station on 24/03/09.
It looks to have been recently re-painted, which would have been welcome given how scruffy a lot of the Excels looked around this time.
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Safeguard Optare Excel X307 CBT was out on Sunday duties today, seen here on the 5A.
Usually, the Sunday service is run by the newer buses.
Friary bus station, Guildford, Surrey.
One of three Manchester e400s that headed south to Bristol and Bath, 33754 SN12AOP is cresting the rise near the end of Park Street as it arrives from Weston super Mare on March 20th 2018,
ExCeL London Exhibition Centre opened in 2001 as an international conference and exhibition centre in London’s Docklands, experienced at staging major events.
ExCeL is the largest competition venue at the London 2012 Games and hosting the biggest cluster of Olympic and Paralympic events outside of the Olympic Park.
ExCeL London is hosting 7 Olympic events: Boxing, Wrestling, Judo, Tae Kwon Do, Weight-lifting, Table Tennis, Fencing.
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LONDON 2012
Nottingham City Transport Optare Excel 555 FD 51 EYX seen at Bulwell Bus Station near Nottingham on 31 December 2008.
Britain has a thriving wargames hobby scene [table-top model soldiers] and also a thriving historical re-enactment scene. Indeed some wargamers are also re-enactors and visa-versa. Salute, at Excel London in April, is one of our biggest wargames events and attracts several guest re-enactment groups every year.
Unfortunately... this year there was only one re-enactment group present and it caused a great deal of offence. The British-run Second Battle Group of the Waffen SS which displays the divisional badge of the Ist SS Liebstandarte Adolph Hitler.
The first I knew was when I drove into the building to join my own group for table-top medieval wargaming to find two Waffen SS troopers in full regalia, swaggering around the vehicle entrance with slung machine pistols.
Their group had a prime spot in the middle of the hall and had an armoured vehicle, an ambulance, at least two jeeps, several motorcycles, numerous machine guns, a 20mm Flak gun, a 37mm anti-tank gun, a bazooka and a flame thrower. The weapons of course were all de-activated.
About 25 personnel included wives and girlfriends dressed as SS female auxiliaries, a nurse, and a group of children dressed in Hitler Youth uniforms. A female Hitler Youth girl had a real baby in a small pram. There was also a recreated Hitler Youth bedroom full of genuine [and I am sure highly collectable] Nazi memorabilia. I think it was the Hitler Youth aspect which was the greatest shock as no attempt was made to interpret or explain the display. There was not a single display about the consequences of Nazism.
Circling their stand several times I spotted mugs for sale including one [ www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/535878762/ ] celebrating the British Freicorps, the 50 of so Britons who fought for the Waffen SS and another mug I was not allowed to photograph which read: "1932 to 1992 - British Union Still Going Strong". The only British Union formed in 1932 was the British Union of Fascists. Why was this group selling these mugs in the first place? All of the mugs later disappeared back into boxes following complaints.
Salute is organised by the South London Warlords, a group of lovely fluffy British wargamers without a political bone in their body.
Following numerous complaints they issued the following apology which can be found in the June 2007 edition of Miniature Wargames, page 20: "The Committee of the South London Warlords wishes to apologise unreservedly for any offence caused by their choice of a display by German World War 2 re-enactors for Salute 07.
"We failed to provide a clear specification of what we were expecting from the re-enactors and given that we had seen them at other shows, were ourselves dismayed by certain elements of what they provided. Parts of this display were definitely not what we expected.
"However, while steps were taken to address certain issues raised, we accept that our attempts to put things right on the day were clearly inadequate.
"Please rest assured that we did not intend to cause any offence to anyone and will do our best to ensure that a mistake like this does not happen again."
To be fair to the Warlords the mugs for sale WERE removed following our complaints and to be fair it is a little difficult to ask a group in the centre of a public event to remove themselves when they had so many vehicles. It would have been a health and safety nightmare.
Fifteen years graft is quite a feat for a little bus cobbled together from empty SPAM tins in a factory in Leeds, even more of a feat when they have been neglected by an operator of a lesser standing! Now in the twighlight of their careers, Wigan's Excels face the chop under the new Stagecoach regime.
35032, previously 60141, prior to that 6603 and new to Timeline Travel as plain old 215, heads back to Wigan on Beech Hill circular service 626...........Damn those LED destination displys!
South West Coaches HIL 5697 (formerly P447 SWX)
Optare Excel, former Optare demonstrator
Service 1
Yeovil bus station
4th October 2002
These are Optare Excel liveries done for [https://www.flickr.com/photos/192780442@N06], of Bluebird 'hi-tech low floor', the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester based off their LDV van, plus half & half variants. Presumably they relate to FD02 SFN in some way, although I just kind of winged it with the front panel and other finer details.
Looking up references for Bluebird, as well as rogue images of American school buses there seemed to be Bluebird, and Blue Bus, that appeared to operate up Manchester way, but I couldn't tell if they were connected or not. Bluebird had this two-tone wavy livery for low floor buses, that was actually quite fun to draw on. I'm assuming they didn't have an Excel IRL so I just added the livery how I thought they might paint one, and the centre panel ended up light blue with black light surrounds.
The MOTGM van is red up to just under the waist rail, then cream, with a red roof. On the Excel the red roof is split with the cream half way up the panel running above the windows, so the cream is still visible enough without it being too cream, and all-red round the destination box. Similarly under the windows there's a thin cream stripe so that it's a proper window 'surround', and cream doors to get the right balance of red/cream on a vehicle with bonded glazing. In the end it looks not to dissimilar to something Barton might've had, if their Excel 2s weren't delivered in route branded liveries.
The first half-&-half is widthways with the MOTGM livery offside and the Bluebird one nearside. No idea if that's what Calum meant but, well, I did it. The MOTGM logo splits the cream from the dark blue on the front, but where the red is against the light blue it did give off a bit of a Home Bargains feel as I was making it! The offside, although you can't see it, would be more or less the mirror image of what the red and cream one looks like.
And then just to see what on earth it would look like, the other half-&-half is front half Bluebird, back half MOTGM, which certainly looks... well it looks something and I don't have the right words for it; not bad, just kinda odd. Again, the MOTGM logo comes to the rescue on the lower bodyside, and the top just has the colours curving up/down as they intersect because the Bluebird already had a curve to it. In a way it reminds me of that Arriva heritage bus with the zip, because it looks like it's being unwrapped from one livery into another.
Top right is my favourite.
First West of England Wright Streetlite 47551 (SN14 FGC) in Excel colours in Weston super mare on 13th November 2019.