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Excelsior Coaches, Bournemouth, Dorset.
Volvo B12B with Caetano Enigma C53F body. New in 2005 as HF05 AXS.
Photographed in Winchester, May 2016.
A sneaky photo of KIB6828 (soon to be reunited with original number B916SPR) volvo B10M/plaxton paramount low driver, the second vehicle to be painted in the (revised) venturer coachways livery, awaiting MOT and final brightwork to be added.
It's that time of year when I put the camera away and get the scanner back out. This winter I will be scanning some Excelsior of Bournemouth stuff from the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. Here are some of the coaches seen at the Bournemouth depot in February 1992.
It's that time of year when I put the camera away and get the scanner back out. This winter I will be scanning some Excelsior of Bournemouth stuff from the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. Here are some of the coaches seen at the Bournemouth depot in April 1996.
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It's that time of year when I put the camera away and get the scanner back out. This winter I will be scanning some Excelsior of Bournemouth stuff from the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. Here are some of the coaches seen at the Bournemouth depot in April 1992.
It's that time of year when I put the camera away and get the scanner back out. This winter I will be scanning some Excelsior of Bournemouth stuff from the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. Here are some of the coaches seen at the Bournemouth depot in October 1992.
It's that time of year when I put the camera away and get the scanner back out. This winter I will be scanning some Excelsior of Bournemouth stuff from the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. Here are some of the coaches seen at the Bournemouth depot in April 1991.
It's that time of year when I put the camera away and get the scanner back out. This winter I will be scanning some Excelsior of Bournemouth stuff from the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. Here are some of the coaches seen at the Bournemouth depot in February 1992.
The Excelsior Mountain fire started with a lightning strike on July 9, 2015, along Medicine Lake, in hot and dry conditions. Today, there is new growth at the forest floor, but it will take a number of years to recover to the mature forest that was there before the fire.
It's that time of year when I put the camera away and get the scanner back out. This winter I will be scanning some Excelsior of Bournemouth stuff from the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. Here are some of the coaches seen at the Bournemouth depot in April 1991.
This 1994 Volvo B10M-62 / Jonckheere Deauville coach spent a season as XEL158 with Excelsior of Bournemouth as their 505. After its brief stay on the south coast it became L870EPR and passed to Tyrer Tours of Trawden.
In September 1996 it turned up at the Farnborough Airshow week and is seen in the Claycart coach parking area.
Parked at the entrance to the Ridgemount depot, Volvo F474WFX also arrived with Safeguard in 1989. At the same time as Safeguard acquired F474/5WFX, Fleet Coaches only a few miles down the road took delivery of F470/1/3WFX. I don't know what happened to F472WFX!
Visible on the right, B906SPR was one of the first pair of ex-Excelsior acquisitions.
Excelsior Coaches, Bournemouth.
Volvo B11R with Jonckheere C53Ft body, new in 2015.
Photographed in Winchester, March 2016.
Composer: Louis Jullien (1812-1860)
Publication Information: London : Jullien & Co., [1857]
Catalogue reference: 781.4 PIA
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Excelsior had a depot in Portsmouth which was used as a base for coaches operating feeder to tours. They were also used for private hire and excursions. 271 was photographed at Marwell Park.
It's that time of year when I put the camera away and get the scanner back out. This winter I will be scanning some Excelsior of Bournemouth stuff from the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. Here are some of the coaches seen at the Bournemouth depot in May 1995.
Commentairer Bonhams en 2015.
Est 350.000 - 400.000 €
Livrée neuve à son Excellence l'ambassadeur de Roumanie en Grande-Bretagne
Automobiles Excelsior Albert 1er Châssis Court Cabriolet 1927
Châssis n° 2.433
Moteur n° 2.163
Produite pendant quelques années à la fin des années 1920 et au début des années 1930, l' Excelsior Albert 1er fut une automobile de grande qualité comparable aux Rolls-Royce et aux Hispano-Suiza. La société Excelsior avait vu le jour en 1903 à Bruxelles, fondée par un jeune ingénieur, Arthur de Coninck, sous la forme d'une agence de vente des moteurs Aster français que de Coninck utilisa aussi pour en équiper une poignée d'automobiles assez primitives. De Coninck construisit ensuite des modèles munis de moteurs Aster plus gros avant d'entreprendre la fabrication de ses propres moteurs et boîtes de vitesses à partir de 1907. Le rachat de l'usine de la défunte société Belgica à Saventhem près de Bruxelles permit à Excelsior de se développer et, en 1910, la firme introduisit son premier type à six cylindres, un modèle très moderne qui fit sensation.
Les six cylindres d'Excelsior furent considérées comme faisant partie des meilleures voitures à l'époque, ce que confirmèrent les succès obtenus en compétition. Une des six-cylindres Excelsior de course, un monstre d'une cylindrée de 9, 1 litres, finit sixième de Grand Prix de l'ACF 1912, tandis qu'une autre battait un record de vitesse sur 50 miles (80 km) à Brooklands. En 1914, Excelsior mena dans les 500 Miles d'Indianapolis à deux tours de la fin avant de terminer à la cinquième place. À cette date, Excelsior avait une réputation de constructeur de voitures de qualité tant sur son marché intérieur qu'à l'exportation bien que la production fût très limitée avec un total de 250 voitures seulement sorties d'usine en 1913.
Malgré le démantèlement de l'usine par les occupants allemands pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, Excelsior fut en mesure de proposer une nouvelle voiture en 1919, l'Adex, une modèles à six cylindres caractérisé par des freins sur les quatre roues et, en 1923, par un moteur à 1 ACT de 5,3 litres. Pas plus de 100 exemplaires de ces voitures exclusives et coûteuses ne furent produits annuellement et la version sport disputa avec succès les épreuves d'endurance de l'époque, y compris les 24 Heures du Mans.
La famille royale de Belgique était cliente d'Excelsior depuis des années et, en 1926, la firme introduisit une version améliorée de l'Adex, le modèle « Albert 1er », du nom du roi des Belges. En 1926, une Albert 1er remporta le GP de Lille et la course de côte du Klausen (catégorie 5 à 8 litres) , tandis qu'en 1927, deux voitures terminaient 1e et 2e des 24 Heures de Spa-Francorchamps. Rendant compte de l'essai d'une Albert 1er dans son numéro de septembre 1927, le magazine Motor Sport la considéra sans aucun doute comme une automobile de grande classe et sans ostentation, « mais capable de performances égales à celles de n'importe quelle autre voiture à l'exception d'une voiture de course ».
Cette Albert 1er châssis court fut commandée neuve par l'ambassadeur de Roumanie au Royaume-Uni sur le conseil de la reine de Roumanie, elle-même propriétaire d'une Excelsior. La voiture importée au Royaume-Uni par Hayward Automobile Ltd, King Street à Londres SW1, est habillée d'une carrosserie de cabriolet sport deux places réalisée par Snutsel & Fils, 59 rue Stevin à Bruxelles. La carrosserie est en aluminium à l'exception des ailes. Mais l'ambassadeur se trouva dans l'impossibilité d'en prendre livraison et l'Excelsior finit par être exportée vers l'Afrique du Sud où elle fut la propriété de trois éminents collectionneurs : MM E. Penny de Johannesburg, membre fondateur du Sports Car Club of South Africa, A. Taylor de Rivonia et Julian Simpson de Johannesburg.
En 2004, l'Excelsior fut réexpédiée en Belgique et restaurée pendant huit ans. Achevée en 2013, elle remporta un 1e Prix de classe au Concours d'élégance du Grand Prix du Zoute en 2014. Elle est éligible dans les manifestations historiques les plus prestigieuses comme Le Mans Classic, Spa Classic, le Klausenrennen, etc. Présenté en superbe état, cet élégant et rare pur sang belge est accompagné de ses papiers d'immatriculation, de son contrôle technique et de divers documents relatifs à l'histoire de la société Excelsior.
Delivered new to his Excellency the ambassador of Romania to Great Britain
1927 Automobiles Excelsior Albert 1er Chassis Court Cabriolet
Chassis no. 2.433
Engine no. 2.163
Built for only a few years during the late 1920s/early 1930s, the Excelsior Albert I was a high quality car ranking alongside those of Rolls-Royce and Hispano Suiza. The Excelsior company had been founded in 1903 in Brussels by a young engineer, Arthur de Coninck, as an agency for the French-made Aster engines, which Coninck also used to complete a handful of rather primitive automobiles. Coninck then built models using larger Aster engines before undertaking the manufacture of his own power units and transmissions from 1907. Purchase of the defunct Belgica company's factory at Saventhem near Brussels enabled Excelsior to expand, and in 1910 the firm introduced its first six-cylinder model, an advanced design that caused a sensation.
Excelsior's six-cylinder cars were considered among the best of that era, which was confirmed by their successes in competition. One of Excelsior's racing sixes, a monster of 9.1 litres, finished 6th in the 1912 French Grand Prix while another set a 50-mile World Speed Record at Brooklands. In 1914 an Excelsior led the Indianapolis 500 with two laps to go, finally finishing in 5th place. By now Excelsior was established as a quality manufacturer in both domestic and export markets, though production remained on a relatively small scale, with only some 250 cars leaving the factory in 1913.
Despite having its factory stripped by the occupying German forces in WWI, Excelsior was able to offer a new car in 1919, the Adex, a six-cylinder model featuring four-wheel brakes and, for 1923, an overhead-camshaft engine of 5.3 litres. Not more than 100 of these expensive and exclusive cars were made annually, and the sports version competed successfully in the long-distance events of the day, including Le Mans.
The Belgian royal family had been Excelsior customers for many years and in 1926 the firm introduced an improved version of the Adex, the 'Albert I', named after the Belgian king. In 1926 an Albert I won the Grand Prix de Lille and the Klausenrennen hill climb (5-8 litres category) while in 1927 a pair finished 1st and 2nd at the Spa-Francorchamps 24 Hours. Reporting on an Albert I in its September 1927 edition, Motor Sport magazine found it undoubtedly of high class and unostentatious, 'yet capable of a performance equal to anything except a racing car.'
In 1929 the company was taken over by Matthieu Van Roggen's Imperia together with Métallurgique and Nagant. Cars continued to be made in small numbers under the Imperia-Excelsior name for the next few years before the once-great Excelsior marque was dropped.
This Albert I on the short-wheelbase chassis was ordered new by the Romanian ambassador to Great Britain on the advice of the Queen of Romania, herself an Excelsior owner. The car was imported into the UK by Hayward Automobile Ltd of King Street, London SW1 and carries sporting two-seat cabriolet coachwork by Snutsel & Fils, rue Stevin 59, Brussels. The body is of aluminium construction with exception of the wings. In the event, the ambassador was unable to take delivery and the Excelsior ended up being exported to South Africa where it belonged to three prominent collectors: Mr E Penny of Johannesburg, founder-member of the Sports Car Club of South Africa; Mr A Taylor of Rivonia; and Mr Julian Simpson of Johannesburg.
In 2004 the Excelsior was shipped back to Belgium and restored over the course of the succeeding eight years. Completed in 2013, it was a 1st In class winner at the Zoute Grand Prix Concours d'Élégance in 2014 and is eligible for a variety of the most prestigious historic events such as the Le Mans Classic, Spa Classic, Klausenrennen, etc. Presented in beautiful condition, this rare and elegant Belgian thoroughbred is offered with Belgian registration papers, technical inspection and various documents relating to the Excelsior company's history.
LA: Fraxinus excelsior
EN: European Ash / Common Ash
DE: Gemeine Esche
HU: Magas kőris
My all time favorite tree buds. (Yes, I have a favorite!)
The common ash buds are dark, almost black, large and velvety! Like there is some extremely precious inside (there is, actually). Reminds me of the velvet cushions jewels are being displayed on.
The common ash is an endemic European tree species. It is mainly growing in floodplain forests, loves fresh, wet soils.
The tree grows up to 40 m height. Can live up to 250-300 years.