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It was back to Wembley today (26/05/2024) for the EFL Championship Play-off Final between Leeds United and Southampton. Just over 200 coaches turned up on what proved to be a largely sunny day, despite the day long forecast of showers!
Thanks go to BM for the regular updates from the North!
This dormant geyser is now considered a hot spring with an estimated temperature of 199 degrees Fahrenheit and size of 276x328 feet, also known as the Excelsior Geyser Crater, Yellowstone National 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 April 1992.
Excelsior Motor Company Ltd of King's Road, Tyseley, Birmingham was Britain's first motorcycle manufacturer. This one is powered by a Villiers two stroke single engine.
Seen at the Netley Marsh Steam and Craft Show.
86th Street's new 2nd Ave Subway stop.
Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 UD (not sure why the 18mm Batis is showing up on the EXIF data; I have used that lens but not in a while).
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 1994.
Another photo of the Excelsior wreck at Mutton Cove Port Adelaide. This shot taken with an early Voigtlander Bessa 1 with a Vaskar 4.5. 100th at F11. Kodak TMax 100 This camera is such a pleasure to use and I am so happy with the quality of the images it produces. The 6x9 negative is really good to work with and the tonal range is impressive. The other thing I love about this camera is the compact size and weight. Purchased two weeks ago at a market.
Excelsior Geyser in Yellowstone National Park. 3 exposure bracket with the Nikon D90 and 10.5mm fisheye, shot from a mono pod.
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 July 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 February 1994.
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.
Excelsior XEL 158 sits in the coach bay in Seldown Lane next to Poole Arts Centre in 1987
It was originally A801 LEL, a Plaxton Paramount 3500 bodied DAF SB2300 delivered in 1984. As was the operators' choice it does not not have the standard "feature window"
A friend suggests it was probably waiting to work a feeder for Excelsior's London service that left from Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth
Seen at the Claycart coach parking area for non-labelled coaches visiting the biennial Farnborough Airshow in September 1988 are Volvo B10M-61 / Van Hool Alizees E513YGC from Epsom Coaches and E311OPR from Excelsior of Bournemouth.
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 July 1993.
I finally got around to sampling Newbury & District's Flightline 730 service which took me from Frimley to Heathrow Terminal 5 in 45 minutes and for £6 return - bargain!! The 730 service and it's sister route 731 (Frimley to Basingstoke) were launched in August 2023 to provide a fast and convenient public transport route into Heathrow form North East Hampshire and North West Surrey.
Upon arriving at Terminal 5, the bus enthusiast is bombarded with buses, coaches and colourful minibuses left, right and centre! From Terminal 5 you can travel for free into the central area where even more stuff will keep your camera very busy.
On this particular visit (11/08/2025) we saw a Custom Denning bus, a fleet of Scania Fencers, some rather smart coaches, a few overall advert buses, some London stuff and much more!
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 November 1994.
Volvo B10M-60 / Plaxton Paramount 3500 C47FT. The vast majority of Paramounts that Excelsior bought were 3200s with the taller 3500 being less common in the fleet. G503EFX became 406 and left the fleet as G370CJT having also worn A3EXC. It is seen at the depot in April 1991.
With nothing better to do I went to check the weeds on my favourite M3 motorway bridge and blimey all these coaches came past! A nice variety of makes and models in amongst the several thousand anonymous white Tourismos that I chose largely to ignore. And the Levante 3s too.
It was back to Wembley today (26/05/2024) for the EFL Championship Play-off Final between Leeds United and Southampton. Just over 200 coaches turned up on what proved to be a largely sunny day, despite the day long forecast of showers!
Thanks go to BM for the regular updates from the North!
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 July 1992.
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.
Excelsior FJ11 GNP is arriving in Chesterfield on a National Express service to Southsea. It is a Volvo B9R with Caetano Levante coachwork, new in 2011.
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.
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.
The Hotel Excelsior opened on January 18, 1906. It was constructed by the Actiengesellschaft für Hotelunternehmungen, based in Lucerne, Switzerland They sold the hotel in 1920 to CIGA, the Compagnia Italiana Grandi Alberghi, or Italian Grand Hotels Company, an Italian luxury chain. In 1944, the hotel became the temporary headquarters of General Mark Clark after the US Army entered Rome.
The Aga Khan IV bought CIGA in 1985, then sold it to Sheraton Hotels in 1994, which placed the Excelsior in its Luxury Collection. In 1998 Sheraton was sold to Starwood Hotels, and the Excelsior was transferred to its Westin Hotels division and renamed The Westin Excelsior, Rome. The hotel was fully renovated in 2000. Starwood sold the hotel to Qatar-based Katara Hospitality in 2015 for €222 Million.
Optare Excels are a pretty rare sight these days, so it's impressive to see an independent operator using three examples of the type in front-line service. Safeguard Buses of Guildford acquired X308 CBT when Tillingbourne collapsed in 2001, and have been using it on circular routes 4 and 5 around the northern suburbs of Guildford ever since. It's seen in the Park Barn district on 25 November 2019; its sister 307 and newer example YJ03 UMM were also on the route that day.