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Far back in time, this building was once a pub, latterly an adult shop and now condemned as a result of the expansion of Tottenham Court Road station for Crossrail. It sits alongside the Astoria, also due to be demolished.
Address: 167 Charing Cross Road (formerly Crown Street).
Former Name(s): The King's Head.
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Dead Pubs (history)
Canadian Transit Heritage Foundation managed to arrange a tour of the New Flyer production facility in Winnipeg before the D40 charter. Here is a shot of an Excelsior shell. One of the ones being built was a Winnipeg unit. It's possible it's this one.
Antigo Hotel Excelsior, na avenida Getúlio Vargas, Cuiabá. Estava a anos abandonado, mas está sendo reformado para voltar a funcionar como hotel.
À direita dele está a prefeitura, à esquerda de onde eu tirei a foto, deste lado da avenida, está a catedral).
Volvo B10M / Plaxton Paramount III C53F. The road from Llandudno Junction to Conwy (with the famous Castle behind me) travels above the Crosville Wales depot from which many a photo has been taken. Seen in April 1987 and almost certainly on a holiday tour is Dorset-based D258HFX, a brand new Volvo B10M of Excelsior.
This is just a small slice of the rim of the large geothermal feature known as Excelsior Geyser, or Excelsior Crater, famous for the prolific outflow of water from what was once an active geyser with explosive 300-foot eruptions. Excelsior Geyser's once exceptional activity created the wide, deep crater it is today, but by 1890 it had quit. Since then was mostly a quiescent spring-like formation until suddenly, in in 1985, it pushed up a 50-75-foot column of water. It now puts out more than 4,000 gallons of boiling hot water *per minute* resulting in a large volume of colorful runoff that pours into the adjacent Firehole River. It is essentially a spring, after the explosive eruptions of the 19th century destroyed the patency of its underground "plumbing" such that very hot water rising from deep within the earth is no longer under substantial pressure.
The National Park Service explains the gorgeous blue color:
"Water temperatures within some springs exceed the boiling point. The intense blue color of some springs results when sunlight passes into their deep, clear waters. Blue, a color visible in light, is scattered the most and the color we see. "
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Until Metal Wizard Paul Brodie came along, there were no 1919 OHC Excelsior Boardtrackers. Rumor has it that Ignaz Schwinn, owner of Excelsior, destroyed them all after factory rider Bob Perry was killed at Ascot Park CA, January 4, 1920, while practicing on the new race bike.
Working from three old black and white photographs, Paul started to recreate these machines in 2005. Excelsior #001 is now in New Yorks' Motorcyclepedia Museum, #002 is in the permanent collection at Yesterdays in Holland, and #003 is in a private collection in Australia... Excelsior #004 is now complete and ready for it's new home.
Paul is a perfectionist, and simply refuses to cut corners. Visit his website at www.flashbackfab.com/pages/excel00.html to read the whole story of the Excelsior's fabrication. Here's what other people say about Paul and the Excelsior:
"Paul Brodie's regenesis of the Excelsior OHC is more than just a remarkable feat of reverse engineering; it's a vindication of the Perry legacy ..."
Robert Smith, writer, in Canadian Biker, May 2008
"We at Yesterdays (www.yesterdays.nl) are extremely proud to have Excelsior 002 in our permanent collection. She attracts much attention, and is admired by many visitors and experts. This recreation is a real technical masterpiece, and Paul's workmanship is of the highest possible level. Excelsior 002 is running extremely well as you can see here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNCMT5R-VUk";
"It takes a special kind of person to commit to design, fabricate, machine, assemble every component of a motorcycle that had been lost to history for 90 years from a couple of scratchy photos. I can't think of anyone else in the world capable of building something so complicated and exquisite so well. If anyone is considering owning such a unique example of American motorcycle racing history, Excelsior 004 is the perfect machine."
Leon Srhoy, Fremantle, Australia, 003 Owner
Excelsior 004 is very reasonably priced at $129K, and Paul guarantees you'll be completely satisfied with its high level of workmanship and exceptional quality. Please feel free to contact Paul about acquiring the Excelsior, or with any questions whatsoever. He can be reached at:
phone 604.888.8785
email paul@flashbackfab.com
More at www.vintagemotorcyclesforsale.ca
Excelsior, based in Coventry, was a British bicycle, motorcycle and car maker. They were Britain’s first motorcycle manufacturer, starting production of their own ‘motor-bicycle’ in 1896. Initially they had premises at Lower Ford Street, Coventry, and 287-295 Stoney Stanton Road, Hillfields, Coventry, Warwickshire before moving to Kings Road, Tyseley, Birmingham in 1921.
Originally a bicycle company making penny-farthings in 1874 under their original name: Bayliss, Thomas and Co, they later sold bicycles under the names of Excelsior and Eureka and changed the company name to Excelsior Motor Co. in 1910. In the early years of motor-bicycle manufacture they used Minerva, De Dion, MMC and possibly a Condor 850 cc single but went on to produce a wide range of machines with engines from most major manufacturers. In 1914, they offered a JAP-powered twin. A deal to supply the Russian Imperial government with motorcycles ended with the Revolution and Excelsior wound up with an excess inventory as a result.
The Walker family (father Reginald and son Eric) took over after World War I. R Walker & Sons of Tyseley, Birmingham had started as makers of ships lamps but in 1919 had made a range of motorcycles under the Monarch name to be sold by the London Department store Gamages. The company was re-registered as the Excelsior Motor Company Ltd, production moved to Birmingham and the Lower Ford Street factory in Coventry sold to Francis-Barnett. They made a range of motorcycles from 98 to 1,000 cc, mostly powered by JAP, Blackburne and Villiers engines, plus an 850 cc Condor engine. The new company put more effort in competition and racing. To avoid confusion with the American maker of the same name, they called themselves the "British Excelsior".
Esche (Fraxinus excelsior) im Landschaftsschutzgebiet „Tabakmühlental - Oberster Weiher“ in Sankt Arnual
Official Number 63326
Built 1882 by Day, Summers & Co, Southhampton
Gross ton 340
Cutter, defined by the shape of its hull
Owner, Huddart Parker Ltd, Melbourne
Scrapped 1919, located in the ships graveyard in the Port river.
Never seems to be a shortage of buyers for former Excelsior vehicles, this one with Berry's of Taunton.
Excelsior don't have any National Express coaches and they only tend to use these coaches. Somebody place an order for 10 National Express coaches for Excelsior.
no. YN08 NKM
Creator: Excelsior Hotel
Title: Excelsior Hotel
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Extent: 1 label; printed
Notes: From a collection of luggage labels, of Hotels, and Transport companies.
Format: Label
Rights Info: No known restrictions on access
Repository: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 1A5, fisher.library.utoronto.ca
Set back from the busy thoroughfare of Oxford Road, this statuesque ash tree has all the characteristics for which it’s celebrated. Tall and graceful in appearance with a wide spreading lush canopy of green. In winter, ash is easily recognised by its smooth grey twigs, fissured bark and hard, black leaf buds. Ash is a very long-lived tree, reaching up to 400 years old and growing to a height of 35 metres.
The ash is one of the UK’s few native trees and the third most common tree in Britain, making up 30% of our woodland cover. They also provide the perfect habitat for a multitude of wildlife. The airy canopy and early leaf fall allows sunlight to reach the woodland floor, providing perfect conditions for wildflowers. Bullfinches may eat the seeds and woodpeckers, owls, redstarts and nuthatches use the trees for nesting. Ash bark on older trees such as these is often covered with lichens and mosses.