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International IDEA offices at Strömsborg islet.
Strömsborg (Swedish: Stream's castle) is a small islet in central Stockholm, Sweden. Strömsborg is part of Gamla Stan, the old town of Stockholm.
The island is currently devoted entirely to the offices of International IDEA, an international inter-governmental organization that supports democracy building worldwide.
The current palace in Strömsborg was built in 1895-97, designed by Johan Andersson and the architect Claes Grundström and then redesigned by architect Ragnar Östberg 1929-30.
Ragnar Östberg (14 July 1866, Stockholm - 5 February 1945, Stockholm) was a Swedish architect who is most famous for designing Stockholm City Hall. He is the most famous architect within the so-called "national romanticist" movement in Sweden. His body of work from the period range from public buildings, such as Stockholm City Hall, to mansions for influential families at the turn of the century.
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Warrenton, Oregon
The FLXIBLE COMPANY of Loudonville, Ohio built these fine coaches.
They started in business by manufacturing a flexible joint for the motorcycle sidecar industry.
Flexible being a common name, they changed the spelling and copyrighted the Companies name - FLXIBLE with the decline of motorcycle sidecar business, after Henry Ford offered a cheap car.
Then the Flxible company went into the bus business. Most of the early Flx's where built with GM frames & engines. Most Flxible Clippers of the 40's had Buick straight 8's, some also had Chevy engines.
The Flxible company was purchased by the Gruman company in the 1970's, shifted focus to more of the city transit buses, until in 1995, when they went out of business.
The Development of The Clippers:
In 1936, it was decided that Flxible would concentrate on inter city coaches, and all its resources were devoted to developing a coach that would be outstanding in this field.
In 1939, Flxible introduced its famous 29 passenger Clipper powered by a modified straight-eight Buick engine. Nearly 5,000 of these coaches were in operation at one time serving over 1,000 bus owners. Flxible Airporters were used successfully in limousine fleets in New York & Chicago as well as many other air terminals.
Glass-roofed sightseeing Flxible coaches operated in many National Parks including Yosemite, Rocky Mountain and others. Famous resorts such as Sun Valley and Catalina Island used Flxible buses exclusively and many manufacturing and sales concerns used Flxibles as display coaches. Movie studios also maintained a fleet of Flxibles.
References: 1948clipper.20m; flxibleowners.org/history
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Restored to its original BR livery, HST Power Car 43018 stands at Crewe Heritage Centre. The locomotive also carries its Class 253 set number, 253009, from when the trains were marshalled in semi-permanent formations.
Locomotive: British Rail Class 43 High Speed Train Power Car 43018 "The Red Cross".
Location: Crewe Heritage Centre, Cheshire.
From time immemorial the world has been divided into different classes and categories, some according to the right of birth, wealth, knowledge and others purely for sense of belonging. So society as a whole has always been on its way to division and everywhere its absence is inevitable.
From time immemorial the world has been divided into different classes and categories, some according to the right of birth, wealth, knowledge and others purely for sense of belonging. So society as a whole has always been on its way to division and everywhere its absence is inevitable.
Ferrari 195 Inter
The 195 Inter is often a grand tourer produced by Ferrari in 1950. Introduced in the 1950 Paris Motor Indicate, it was similar for the 166 Inter shown a year earlier and was geared towards the same affluent patrons. Like the last in the 166 Inters, the wheelbase ended up being...
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Title:
Transport - Shipping - Inter-island Ferries
Publicity Caption:
Picton ferry terminal with an inter-island ferry coming into berth
Photographer:
T. Hann
January 1980, Marlborough Sounds
Archives New Zealand Reference: AAQT 6539 W3537 6 / R10241 collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=24845174
For further enquiries email research.archives@dia.govt.nz
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The Surrey Photographic Association held the inter-club projected digital image competition today at East Horsley Village Hall. It was good to be able to meet together once more.
(Though Crawley is in Sussex we are members of the SPA)
Brief History through the Centuries
10th century in 1124 Turlough O' Connor, King of Connacht erected his castle to create a strategic frontier fort possibly supplanting an existing small fishing village.
13th century the Anglo-Norman invasion of Connacht when Richard de Burgo finally laid claim to the fort in 1235 and developed a centre of trade at this important river crossing. There is evidence of a strong sea trade developing by the middle of the 13th century.
14th century with links to France, Flanders and Italy strengthened Galway's status as a big commercial port in Ireland and in 1380 Richard II gave permission to Iberian and Galway merchants to inter-trade.
15th century Galway was licensed as one of the four ports in Ireland along with Dublin,Cork and Waterford and developed lucrative trading links with European ports St. Malo, Dieppe, Lisbon, Seville and further afield to the West Indies and Newfoundland. Imports were wine, iron, lead, spices and silks, exports were wool, fish, hides, tallow and general provisions.
16th century saw the apex of Galway's greatness as a maritime port but lead to a period of decline after the Cromwellian and Williamite wars reflecting the ebb and flow of the city's economic fortunes from then on.
18th century trade revived somewhat with a new dock for shipping at the old mud dock and the Long Walk by Edward Eyre.
19th century the city experienced its greatest expansion with the development of the town as we know it today, streets, merchant houses, church's, the university and Court House fuelled by water powered industries following the development of a new dock in 1842 and the opening of the canal system in 1852. 1880 saw the advent of scheduled sailings of large cruise vessels and Dún Aengus Dock was developed in 1882.
20th century 1927 and 1933 the transatlantic liner trade was re-established in and 100 ships had called to the port. That trade ceased in the 1950's
1964 saw the deepening and development of the Commercial Dock
1994 saw the opening of the Enterprise Park and access bridge on reclaimed lands south east of the harbour.
21st century 2009 saw the relocation of the oil farm to the Enterprise Park. 2009 also saw the Port host a stopover leg of the Volvo Ocean Race. 2010 Planning Application to Redevelop the Port to future proof its economic development.