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Honored to be in Gabi Campanario's new book, The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes: Tips and Techniques for Drawing on Location. T
A very fine official handbook to "the Parks, Gardens and Recreation Grounds of the City of Liverpool" that was compiled and issued under the direction of the Town Clerk, Walter Moon, for the Committee. It was written by Michael O'Mahony and has a splendid cover in a period style by George Lund.
As well as major sections on the city's main parks there are details of the various recreational activities available at various locations along with a table showing all 113 parks, gardens, recreation grounds and playgrounds administered by the Department under the management of James Gutteridge, Chief Superintendent and Curator. They range in size from the largest, Sefton Park at 269 acres, down to numerous inner city playgrounds noted as 'very small'. It was issued in July 1934 and makes for a fine record of an often overlooked civic responsibility that was at the time taken very seriously so as to enable people to have access to green spaces and activities close to their home. The very fine pictorial map that is included is drawn by W H Harrison shows the main sites as well as giving transport in the form of tram and bus routes. I do like the compass point using the city's emblematic "Liver Bird"!
The Panamint Valley and Mountains can be seen in this view down Rainbow Canyon on the Darwin Plateau along the western edge of Death Valley National Park in California. Rocks in the canyon are mostly basalt flows and lapilli beds erupted from the Darwin Hills Volcanoes between 2 and 4 million years ago. Lapilli are pyroclastic material or tephra that falls from the sky during a volcanic eruption. Bits of lava blown out of a vent, harden and fall to the ground. Lapilli, which means little rocks, refers to tephra that range from 2 to 64 mm (0.08 to 2.52 in) in diameter. Anything smaller is called volcanic ash. Anything larger is referred to as a volcanic bomb.The red and rusty colors in the volcanic rock is caused by weathering and alteration of some of the minerals.
Deep in the Rainbow Canyon some marble, which is metamorphosed limestone, and granite outcrops. Together with the partially altered and weathered volcanics they give the canyons wall a variety of red, beige, brown, gray, yellow and pink hues. Some visitors refer to the canyons as “Star Wars Canyon” because the canyon walls are similar in color to the fictional desert planet, Tatooine, in the Star Wars movie franchise.
This part of California is famous for low flying military aircraft. On the western edge of Death Valley National Park and beyond is an area used by the military, administered by Edwards Air Force Base and called by the Military the R2508 Complex. Within the complex are bombing ranges, supersonic corridors; radar intercept areas; refueling areas; and areas to practice low altitude, high speed maneuvers. Rainbow Canyon is designated as an area to practice low altitude flying. In the R2508 Handbook, the canyon is known as Rainbow Canyon or "Star Wars Canyon". The low level air route through the canyon is known as "the Jedi Transition" and connects Panamint Valley on the east with Owens Valley to the west. While I was there, I saw no air traffic down in the canyon but guess I will have to go back.
Rainbow Canyon’s walls are up to 1,000 feet tall. Santa Rosa Wash runs through the canyon and drains the west slope of the Santa Rosa Hills and the east slope of the Inyo Mountains into the Panamint Valley. The canyon is also home to rock art (petroglyphs) created by The Coso people who inhabited the area from 12,000 ya to the 1800s. This photo was taken from The Father Crowley Vista near the western entrance to the park.
Tipped into the city's 1939 Official Handbook is this folding plate that shows the Transport Department's motor omnibus and trolleybus route map. Nottingham, originally a tram operator since 1897, had like many other undertakings chosen to look to replace the first generation tramway system with more flexible and 'modern' means of transport duringt he late 1920s and early 1930s. The city's first trolleybuses ran in 1927 and although there was early enthusiasm for a complete changeover from one form of electric traction to another, the council seems to have increasingly hedged their bets as the technology of motor buses improved dramatically during the '30s. Nevertheless other trolleybus routes followed - however the last two tram route abandonments, including the final service to Mapperley, saw conversion complete by September 1935.
This map therefore shows the municipal trolleybus system at its fullest extent - but not all trolleybus routes int he city. The privately owned Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Tramways Company, an almost inter-urban affair, unusually decided to convert its lengthy route to Ripley from tram to trolleybus between 1931 and 1933. This connected with the City system at Cinderhill (route 41) and took a more direct trajectory into the city centre. Nottingham's system lasted until 1966, the company's offering having been replaced by motorbuses in 1953.
Mention should also be made of another 'missing link' on this map - the strongly independent and neighbouring West Bridgford Urban District Council who, slighly unusually for a UDC, had its own Transport undertaking than ran buses from 1914 until being sold to Nottingham in 1968. Competition from private operators in the 1920s had forced Nottingham and West Bridgford to agree to joint operation of routes across Trent Bridge and these appear on the map as services 11 - 15 and 24.
In recent years Nottingham has been one of the most succesful UK cities in reintroducing a tramway system - here's hoping it lasts longer than the 39 years both the first generation tram system and trolleybus network lasted!
I would like to believe that this could have been one of the first versions of a Hogwarts' student's Quidditch Handbook. Perhaps it might have belonged to Harry's great grandfather, assuming that he was a wizard too AND played Quidditch :) or perhaps ... Dumbledore's? what position do you think Dumbledore would have played in?
This little handbook should in fact be sitting in the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts Library now ... but with a little swish and click, it could be yours ;)
This is a mixed media handbound journal. The artwork on the front cover combines paint, ink, mixed metal components, a Hogwarts badge, paper and clay. The page marker is made up of a brass chain and ends with cute metal beads. The artwork is then aged and distressed. The covers are finished with several coats of varnish to protect the artwork.
Size : 4.25 x 5 inches Covers, 3.75 x 4.75 inches Inside
Pages : Brown Craft 120g paper, 224 pages counted both sides
Covers : Mdf
Spine : Leather, medium-soft
Thread : Beige Nylon
Style : Single Long Stitch
* this journal is Palm Size (see image) and comes with a sturdy kraft box
Notebook design for new year greetings
Limited & numbered 800 copies
Client: Publicis Yorum
Concept, design & illustration: Orgut Cayli
Text: Melisa Kesmez, Orgut Cayli
ⓒRebecca Bugge, All Rights Reserved
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I am a collector of different things, one of them being pre-Great War travel guides, of which this is an example (more can be seen in the pile behind it). The book actually has three titles: Handbook of Modern London (on the back of the book), Murray's Modern London (on the front of the book) and then Handbook to London as it is (inside the book). It was published by John Murray, Albemarble Street, London, in 1879.
Note that it include a tube map (though named "Metropolitan and underground railways), and everything else that you generally find a modern guide to London (maps, descriptions of major sites, lists of opening hours and fees - but also descriptions on how to visit prisons (still in use) and hospitals and charitable institutions).
A reminder of the once thriving and sizable Port and Docks in Hull, East Yorkshire, that appears in the city's Handbook for 1960s. Thanks to previous railway ownership the Docks were part of the nationalised British Transport Docks organisation.
Another in the series of 'official handbooks' issued by various transport undertakings in mid-20th Century Britain and another that follows the same pattern as many municipal 'official handbooks' - indeed this too is produced by Burrow & Co Ltd of Cheltenham for PMT. The guides take the format of an extended tours brochure that includes adverts relevant to the company and the areas it serves.
The Potteries Motor Traction Co Ltd, PMT, had its origins in the company that bought out and converted the existing steam operated North Staffordshire Tramways in 1898. These were operated in the area known as "The Potteries" that surround the major towns of Stoke on Trent and Newcastle and that, as electric tramways, came into service between 1899 and 1905. The concern was an early operator of 'motor' buses in 1901 when steam buses were tried and these were supplanted within a few years by early petrol engined vehicles. By 1913 a fully fledged "Motor Omnibus Service" was in place although this was soon brought to a halt by WW1 and the requisitioning of vehicles. However by the 1920s, like so many other operators, motor buses were now the preferred investment and in 1928 the tramways were officially abandoned and replaced by buses. In 1933 the company was formally renamed Potteries Motor Traction instead of Potteries Electric Tramways or Traction.
As well as a dense network of local stage services in the urban and industrial areas of its namesake, PMT operated longer routes and some in conjunction with other operators into Cheshire, Shropshire and Derbyshire. By the time of this guide on c1935 they were also running day tours and other excursions as described. The cover shows a PMT coach in an approximation of the company's red and white livery amidst a suitably 'scenic' backdrop.
One of the many official handbooks that were issued by nearly all UK local authorities during the mid-20th century to help 'sell' the borough or district and that were as much aimed at attracting business to industrial towns as well as resorts or holiday haunts. This 1947 one, issued by the County Borough of Derby Estates and Development Committee is in fact a very lavish affair with a large number of adverts for the county town's many companies as well as describing the borough's amenities and services.
The cover is a bold 'spotlight' on Derby, casting a shadow over a good chunk of England and is far removed from the usual staid presentation of the borough coat of arms that normally adorn such books!
The first post-WW2 edition of Liverpool's Official Handbook, published as usual for the City Council by Littlebury Borther Ltd, is an unusually early example given that paper rationing and ink supplies still made things difficult even after the end of the war. The book contains the usual rich mix of civic information and descriptions of services, amenities and industrial activity.
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A page from a large trade handbook from c1932/33 that is difficult to handle and photograph so apologies for angles and flare. The book describes a wide range of machinery and tools used on road building and construction projects as well as maintenance equipment and street furniture.
Some well known names here in the world of road building and maintenance machinery and companies that, in 1932, were undergoing changes in ownership. The advert notes "Associated with AGE Ltd." and this stood for a holding company Agricultural & General Engineering formed in 1919 and that formed an umbrella for a number of similar concerns making road, construction and agriculatural machinery and that failed in 1932.
Aveling & Porter was a long established company, formed in Rochester, Kent, in the mid-Victorian period and who, through the founder Thomas Aveling, helped pioneer the use of steam locomotion in agricultural equipment especially through the construction of steam traction equipment and road rollers.
Barford & Perkins had started in business in 1840, based in Peterbrough, and under AGE ownership the business was transferred into Aveling & Porter's Rochester works were the 'marque' was used for 'rollers that utilised petrol or diesel engines so as to be complimentary to the steam driver Aveling models. In the collapse of AGE both companies were saved, with it appears some financial support from other industry players such as Listers, Ransom, Sims & Jefferies and Ruston & Hornsby. The new company moved to Grantham and by 1934 became known as Aveling-Barford. In 1967 they were acquired by British Leyland and in 1988 closed down.
As can be seen Aveling & Porter, and latetrly Aveling-Barford, used part of the Kent coat of arms as their badge or logo - "Invicta".
The second edition of the vast publication the "Municipal and Road Engineers' Standard Catalogue, 1929 - 1932" contains many hundreds of pages of adverts showing plant, appliances and supplies across a wide range of 'municipal' engineering such as road construction, lighting, refuse disposal, water supplies and sewerage and park equipment.
From an apparent second edition of the very lavish Official Handbook to the County Borough of Derby comes this advert for the municipal transport department - interestingly titled as "Omnibus" department. Derby had been early proponents for the conversion of tramways to trolleybus operation and the top image shows a turnng circle forming one of the Borough's trolleybus termini. Below a Daimler bus, BCH 132, fleet number 32 a CVD6 of 1949 with a Brush body that would see twenty years service with the Department.
The advert is an interesting use of a single colour tone and so it was fortunate that the livery was indeed green!
The 1951/2 edition of the Official Handbook to the County Borough of Huddersfield, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, appears ot have been the first post-war edition. As usual it describes the municipal activities of the town along with industrial activity and opportunities for both citizens and investors. Given the industrial nature of the town at the time the contents are quite 'gritty' in nature but does, as usual, describe beauty spots of the borough and its surroundings.
The front cover is of very contemporary graphic design - very 'New" Elizabethan and showing Huddersfield's industry at the centre of the world with global links for various trades such as the woollen industry, then dominant in the town.
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DESCRIPTION
1985 Aston Martin V8 Vantage 'X-Pack' Development Prototype
Finished in Kensington Silver with Blue leather, this car was built as a standard production V8 Vantage Coupe in 1985 and delivered for use as a demonstrator by Stratton Motor Company, the authorised Aston Martin agent.
The car was returned to the Newport Pagnell ‘Works’ in 1986 and used for development work by the Engineering Department. It was allocated a Development Project number 'DP' and used to evaluate the combination of the X-Pack engine and automatic transmission, together with revised suspension and Compomotive 16" wheels. While at the ‘Works’ the car carried their private registration number 'AML 56' as shown in the magazine article in the History File.
The History File includes copies of the ‘Works’ internal correspondence and memoranda documenting this car’s specific role in the development of the ‘X-Pack’ model launched late in 1986. On completion of its development role the Chassis Plate was updated to show the engine’s ‘X-Pack’ specification, and the History File carries written documentation from the Heritage Operations of Aston Martin that their records confirm the instruction to rebuild the Vantage engine to Vantage ‘X-Pack’ specification.
In December 1988 Aston Martin ‘Works’ sold the Vantage to its first private owner, Mr John Elliott of Langton Green who registered the car with his private plate 'JE 207'. In a written account of his ownership Mr Elliott states that prior to his purchase the car had been updated by the ‘Works’ to 1988 specification, including the air conditioning. At 21,352 miles the car was returned to the ‘Works’ and fitted with its ZF five speed manual gearbox, Mr Elliot driving the car for another 19,000 miles during which the car continued to be serviced by the ‘Works’.
Correspondence in the History File from the ‘Works’ shows that the car was subsequently owned by B. G. A. Palmer Esq, as also shown in the Aston Martin Owners Club ‘Register of Members’ Cars’ with the car carrying the registration number ‘AML 56’.
In 2002, with 40,000 miles, the car returned to the Stratton Motor Company from whom it passed to its third owner.
For the seventeen years from 1985 until 2002 the car was serviced and maintained by the ‘Works’ at Newport Pagnell, with additional work by its authorised agent ‘The Stratton Motor Company’, the original ‘Service Vouchers’ book showing seven stamps during this period when the mileage reached 39,288. Subsequently, and during the third owner’s fourteen year ownership, the Aston has been religiously maintained by two leading marque specialists, Four Ashes Garage and Davron with servicing and maintenance is very well-recorded and documented within the History File
At the AMOC’s 2016 Autumn Concours the car was awarded 3rd Place in the ‘Pride of Ownership’ Class
Supplied with the following original documentation and accessories:
History File with extensive and detailed records
Factory ‘Sales Pre-Delivery Certificate’
Owners Handbook
Workshop Manual
Original Aston Martin V8 ‘Sales Brochure
Original ‘Service Voucher book’
Original Blaupunkt radio handbook and instructions
Heritage Certificate
Original edition of the book ‘Aston Martin V8 Vantage’ by Kean Rogers embossed ‘DP2035’
Original ‘Tanner & Krolle’ Aston Martin Luggage
Original Compomotive wheels used during its role as Development Prototype
Original Tool Kit and Jack
A manufacturer’s ‘development prototype’ always holds special value within every marque’s history, and none more so than with Aston Martin. Since the V8 Vantage ‘X-Pack’ was the last model of an era that lasted thirty years, and has become one of the most sought-after and collectible Astons worldwide, the importance of this car and the significance of its role cannot be over-estimated.
Offered in excellent condition throughout and the first of just 121 ‘X Pack’ models constructed, this significant Aston Martin ticks every box in terms of provenance, originality, rarity, desirability and is without question the X Pack to own.
Harry Golombek - The Game of Chess
Penguin Books PH24, 1954
Cover Artist: Hans Schmoller
"One of Britain's foremost international masters describes the game in all its phases. A book for beginners as well as for those who already know how to play."
In 1919 a rather splendid guide to many trades and businesses of the Yorkshire industrial towns of Sheffield and Rotherham - the official handbook of the Sheffield and Rotherham Chambers of Commerce. The guide was printed for them by Bemrose & Sons Ltd, the noted colour printers, and has a supplement containing various colour advertisements.
The massive steel making, shipbuilding and engineering company of Cammell, Laird & Co Ltd is represented over four pages - a lavish spread for a company that in 1919 had needless to say been hugely busy over the previous five years. Cammell Laird were not just a Sheffield concern with London offices as seen here but also had their major shipbuilding yards at Birkenhead in Cheshire. The company was formed in 1903 when the Sheffield steelmasters Charles Cammell & Co Ltd took over Laird's Shipbuilders to form a 'verticlally integrated' company that was better able to compete for warship orders on the basis that they both made the steel, especially the armour plating, as well as utilising the materials.
Cammell's dated back to 1837 as Johnston, Cammell & Co who were steel makers and file makers. The company prospered, becoming Charles Cammell in 1855, and moved into railway equipment and armourplating - developing several new works to match their growing business. Laird's shipbuilding interests dated to 1828 when the company, formed in 1824 as boilermakers, moved into construction. Although Cammell Laird, along with much of British industry, was riding high in 1919 the next few years would not be easy for them. The general trade depression of the early 1920s affected them and the loss of armaments business in post-war contraction, against the background of pacifism, made business difficult. In 1928 they amalgamated their steel plants with those of rivals Vickers and Vickers, Armstrong to form the English Steel Corporation and the following year their railway manufacturing business was spun off in an arrnagement with the Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Co to create what was best known as Metro-Cammell.
The four colour plates are of interest in that they show various scenes in the production of different activities within the company; the formation of armour plating, the manufacturing of laminated springs, the manufacturing of crucible steel and cutting of files. There's a temptation to see these images as 'colourised' photographs but it is more likely they are reproductions of original artworks commissioned by Cammel Laird. Indeed, the 'fititng of laminated springs' derives from a painting by Edward Frederick Skinner (1865 - 1924) and the original painitng from seems to date from a series he underttok for the company in 1917 - 1918 several of which survive in public colelctions in Sheffield and on the Wirral. Whereas his signature is obvious on this image two others, armour plating and crucible steel, have rather more indecipherable lettering on them.
One of two adverts for the Hull Co-operative Society in the city's c1908 handbook and this gives clear reasons as to why membership of the Society was beneficial in many ways. It, of course, strongly echoes the ethos behind the foundation of the Rochdale Pioneers Co-operative Society, in the Lancashire town in 1844, and that is seen as the birth of the modern co-operative movement and particularly in regards to the member owned retail shop societies such as this in Hull. Most towns and localities had their own society - they had joint ownership in and of the Co-operative Wholesale Society in Manchester who provided many central services to individual societies.
The Hull Society was then based in Jarratt St and had a splendid head office store in the city centre that was wholly destroyed in the Hull Blitz during WW2. A new department store was constructed and opened in the early 1960s as part of the city's post-war reconstruction - no longer owned by the Society is survives and is noteworthy because of the "Three Ships" mosiac mural that has become a symbol of Hull. The advert, in many period typefaces, also shows a Corporation Telephone number - Hull being one of the few municipalities to own and operate its own phone service from 1904 (at the time in competition with the National TC that the PO would purchase) and the separate Kingston Communications still serves Hull.
The cover to the c1950 official industrial handbook issued by the County Borough of Swansea in c1950. This variation on the often produced official handbook or guidebook that most UK local authorities produced at around this time focusses on the industrial history, facilities and opportunites the borough could provide. The cover is also a variation on the generic Burrow's production in that the coat of arms is superimposed on the image of the borough's Guildhall, opened in 1934.
From a vintage Illinois DOT issue (1967) handbook on driving and rules of the road. Paper all from margins. About 6 x 9 inches.
Many thanks for your visits, faves and comments. Cheers.
Published in Cornell Lab of Ornithology Handbook of Bird Biology, Third Edition, 2016, p. 42
Emu (landscape version) (The name 'emu' is not an Aboriginal word. It may have been derived from an Arabic word for large bird and later adopted by early Portuguese explorers and applied to cassowaries in eastern Indonesia. The term was then transferred to the Emu by early European explorers to Australia.)
Scientific Name: Dromaius novaehollandiae
Description: The Emu is Australia's tallest native bird, reaching between 1.6 m and 1.9 m when standing erect. Adult Emus are covered with shaggy grey-brown feathers except for the neck and head, which are largely naked and bluish-black. The wings are greatly reduced, but the legs are long and powerful. Each foot has three forward-facing toes and no hind toe. Most people see Emus along roadsides, near fences or other barriers, giving the impression of close association. However, Emus are not really social, except for young birds, which stay with their father.
Similar species: The Emu (30 - 45 kg) is lighter than its closest living relative, the Southern Cassowary Casuarius casuarius, but is taller and less heavy set in appearance. It is also much more widely distributed throughout Australia.
Distribution: The Emu is found only in Australia. It lives throughout most of the continent, ranging from coastal regions to high in the Snowy Mountains. Emus were once found in Tasmania, but were exterminated soon after Europeans arrived. Two dwarf species of emus that lived on Kangaroo Island and King Island also became extinct.
Habitat: The main habitats of the Emu are sclerophyll forest and savanna woodland. These birds are rarely found in rainforest or very arid areas.
Seasonal movements: Emus move within their range according to climatic conditions. If sufficient food and water are present, birds will reside in one area. Where these resources are more variable, Emus move as needed to find suitable conditions. They are known to move hundreds of kilometres, sometimes at rates of 15 km to 25 km per day.
Feeding: Emus eat fruits, seeds, growing shoots of plants, insects, other small animals, and animal droppings.
Breeding: Nesting takes place in winter. The male and female remain together for about five months, which includes courtship, nest building and egg-laying. The nest consists of a platform of grass on the ground, about 10 cm thick and 1 m - 2 m in diameter. The large eggs (130 mm x 90 mm) are laid at intervals of two to four days. These are dark bluish-green when fresh, becoming lighter with exposure to the sun. The shells are thick, with paler green and white layers under the dark outer layer. The female dominates the male during pair formation but once incubation begins, the male becomes aggressive to other Emus, including his mate. The female wanders away and leaves the male to perform all the incubation. Sometimes she will find another mate and breed again. The male incubates the eggs without drinking, feeding, defecating or leaving the nest. During this time, eggs often roll out of the nest and are pulled back in by the male. Newly hatched chicks are cream-coloured with dark brown stripes. They leave the nest when they are able to feed themselves. Young birds stay close together and remain with the male for four months. They finally leave at about six months. During this period, the stripes fade and the downy plumage is replaced by dull brown feathers. Emus are nearly fully grown at one year, and may breed at 20 months. Sometimes eggs that have not hatched remain in the nest after the male and young have left and become sun-bleached. Bleaching takes about three months.
Calls: Booming, drumming and grunting. Booming is created in an inflatable neck sac, and can be heard up to 2 km away.
Minimum Size: 160cm
Maximum Size: 200cm
Average size: 180cm
Average weight: 37 500g
Breeding season: April to June
Clutch Size: 5 to 15
Incubation: 55 days
Nestling Period: 7 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net and and "The Slater Field Guide to Australian Birds - Second Edition")
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From the 1965 edition of the City's official handbook, the first since the 1958 issue, and editied by F W Bradnock, the city's Public Relations Officer. The handbook was a regular publication and it describes the work of the City Council, in terms of administration, public works and buildings, education, social services, protective services, amenities and civic trading undertakings.
Birmingham were great believers in mercury vapour street lighting both on main and side roads. They stuck with two local manufacturers for the most part - Revo Electric of Tipton for B or side roads and GEC, whose works were in Witton in the city, for main roads. The text notes that by 1937 the bulk of the main road lighting was in place and the city had used the Birchfield 'box' lantern as well as growing numbers of Difractors both on modified tram poles and steel columns. By the 1960s the replacement for these, on new steel columns, was the GEC Clearmain Z8420 and later models, that the city used by the thousands. Seen here is a road that was once very familiar to me as we lived just a ong and to the left from here - this is, I am sure, Bristol Road looking towards Selly Oak from Pebble Mill Rd with the abandoned tram reservation in the centre. But, on second thoughts and chatting with a pal who grew up at 1022 Bristol Road we think this is looking towards Northfields beyond Selly Oak!
This would have used the 400 watt lamps at 90' intervals and this is a 'very' Birmingham look.
From the 1937 official handbook to the Port of Leith, issued by the Leith Chamber of Commerce, and giving a description of the then busy harbour and docks that served Edinburgh and the Lothians. The handbook gives details of the infrastructure, services and sailings from Leith as well as the fishing port at adjacent Newhaven. It also lists various statistics as to the volume, origin and destination of the various cargoes handled by the port.
The cover with the old pre-1922 Burgh coat of arms retained and some 'new and old' typefaces!