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Pots in a garden centre, of course. But there is a symbolic side to commerce. When you acquire one of these blue pots you also make (or hope to make) an investment in your emotional economy: you are putting yourself back into the great scheme of nature, of growth and beauty, of decay and death. In short, you re-introduce into your life what has been lost in the city - being part of the seasons and the cycle of life. Fuji X-Pro1.
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when quality mattered...every dial, every gauge, every switch, every flange, every bracket, every screw, without exception, it all mattered, nothing less than perfection!
Claude M. Cox's original Overland car was developed in the early 1900s by the Standard Wheel Company of Terre Haut, Indiana. The Overland Company was formed in 1903 by Mr. Cox and Charles Minshall but it didn't take off until John North Willys arrived in 1907. Mr. Willys was a New York auto dealer and a major Overland customer. He ordered 500 Overlands and paid a deposit of $10,000. After his product was not delivered, he traveled to Indiana only to find Overland on the point of closure. Wanting to recoup his investment, Willys secured additional credit and reorganized the company. By mid-1908 they were in a position to build a new factory. Production increased and by 1909 the company had moved to Toledo, Ohio. Willys eventually became president of the company.
From 1910 to 1914, the company produced only four-cylinder models and they were all right-hand drive. (The company began using left-hand drive in 1915). In 1914, Overland was the second-largest producer of cars in the US, behind only Ford. While the Model T appealed to the masses, the Overland was an upmarket model selling for approximately twice the cost of a T. The Overland was more spacious, more powerful, and larger than the FOrd and its four-cylinder engine had separately cast cylinder jugs. An electric starter was available as a $125 option in 1914.
Overland built a quality automobile that was advanced for its time. The early models had a removable ignition plug that prevents auto theft.
During the 1920s, Willys-Overland produced the Willys Knight, which was powered by the sleeve valve engine designed by Indiana native Charles Knight. During World War II, Willys produced the Jeep. Several modern Jeep models pay homage to their Overland roots with the name of their top models wearing the 'Overland' nameplate.
by Daniel Vaughan
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– Bethenny Frankel
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The Carreau Wendel Museum is the museum of the Wendel-Vuillemin coal pit, in Petite-Rosselle on the Saarland, Lorraine border. Though often in Germany, since 1945 it has been in Moselle department France.
The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
The Wendel 1 pit was closed in 1989, Wendel 2 in 1992 and Wendel 3 in 2001. The first piece of coal was mined in Petite-Rosselle in June 1856, at the Saint-Charles pit. These pits are in France but surrounded on three sides by the national border with Germany. Several pits were dug between 1862 and 1889: Wendel 1, Wendel 2, Vuillemin 1 and Vuillemin 2. Emile Vuillemin was the consulting engineer for Charles de Wendel and Georges Hainguerlot's company- Compagnie Anonyme des Mines de Stiring. The coal produced was primarily used to fire the Wendel steelworks. The company became - Les Petits-fils de François de Wendel et Cie in 1889.
After the Second World War, the government required the industry to triple the Lorraine coal production within ten years. In the 1946 nationalising, the Wendel assets were assigned to public company Houillères du bassin de Lorraine. The Wendel 3 pit was dug in 1952, and in 1958 was equipped with the new wash house 3. The Wendel 1 and 2 pits were modernised and equipped with new headframes. After 1960, the coal recession hit: the company modernised wash house 1-2 in 1962 by creating a new module on top of the former wash house, adapted to the existing equipment. Operations and investment continued up until 1986 when central activities ceased. Some infrastructure continued to be used up until 1989 serving other pits in the Wendel franchise.
The museum is presented in several section. The simple tour shows the life of the miner and the hazardous working conditions. There is then an opportunity to take a guide tour down the workings seeing the machinery current when the last deep mine in France closed in 2004. There is an AM 100 heading machine, G210 electro-hydraulic loader, Electra 2000 shearer and ANF winning machine, roof supports etc.
I just bought the property next door to me so no one could build a house there and wreck my life. They would cut down every tree and block the views. There are mtn. views when it's not raining. It's one of the last pieces of land in my area and it sure beats investing in the market. I am so happy to be able to do this. Sorry the pics suck, but I wanted something to post and the colors are in a good spot today.
Buying a house can be tough if you are a bird, with a roof or without a roof....
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CN's inspection train slowly eases down Steelton Hill as executives review their multi-million dollar investment in double tracking this stretch of former DM&IR.
The diesel depot in the middle of Wath Yard, separate from the electric depot many people were familiar with, opened in October 1963, for the servicing of just diesel locomotives. On a winters day in 1966, D5827 stands at the depot. All work was transferred to the electric depot from May 1968 and the diesel depot became a wagon repair facility until closure of the yard.
Part of the fishpl8 collection.
Burj Khalifa (Arabic: برج خليفة "Khalifa Tower"),[8] formerly known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m (2,717 ft).[8] Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010.[1][9] The building is part of the 2 km2 (490-acre) flagship development called Downtown Burj Khalifa at the "First Interchange" along Sheikh Zayed Road, near Dubai's main business district.
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Seen at Hatfield The Forum are the two routes with new buses.
Both the E400s and the Evoras are very nice vehicles and were very pleasant to ride on around Hatfield. Featuring:
251 ADL Enviro 400 City YX17NPY
360 Volvo B8RLE/MCV Evora LF18AWH
New vehicles in mid Somerset are not that common, in both Southern National and First days. Representing the cross over period, ordered by Cawlett but delivered to First to Barbie spec is East Lancs bodied Dart 42831 T831RYC seen here in a Bridgwater bus station still under construction.
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Trinkets upon trinkets in the antique store.
How do you determine if something is valuable with age?
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C-GGVI, a Gulfstream Aerospace GVI Gulfstream G650ER, on approach to runway 24L at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario. It was arriving from Nassau, The Bahamas.
Serial number 6331 is owned by Noro Limited, a subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited of Toronto, Ontario. It is operated by Fairflight, the company's flight department.
"The Intelligent Investor", first published in 1949, is a well appreciated book by legendary investor Benjamin Graham.
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The number of coaches allocated to megabus.com operations from Stagecoach in South Wales's Cwmbran depot recently reduced in favour of Bristol-based South Gloucesterhire. However, a welcome boost has come in the shape of nine new Plaxton Elite-i-bodied Volvo B11RTs (54285-93), which have replaced a similar number of 61-plate Van Hool Astromegas. A tenth Elite-i has transferred from the Midlands fleet to replace a further Astromega. Thus, the only surviving Astromegas are 61-plate 50238 and 14-plate 50253.
54292 represents the new order in this late November 2017 shot as she leaves Swansea City Bus Station when operating the daily Aberystywth to London diagram, which employs Mid Wales Travel drivers between Aberystwyth and Cardiff, and vice versa.
With the exception of 54285, she and the other seven are looking for names. For what it's worth, my suggestion would be Rita Ray from the late 1970s band Darts, if she's willing.
Charity the saddlebred developed Laminitis early in 2019, after a lengthy recovery she was deemed well by the vet. My wife waited extra time to ensure her soundness. New Years was the breakout day and these two had too much fun. Charity was my wife's Christmas Present about 15 yrs ago. So the holidays are always special for these two and for her to be sound this holiday season, was a tremendous present and outcome.
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McGill’s investment
McGill’s has placed an order with Pelican Bus and Coach for 22 Yutong E12 battery-electric buses. The operator says the order marks the beginning of a phase-out of diesel purchases in an effort to respond to the air quality and climate crisis.
The 12m zero-emission buses will be delivered in the third quarter of 2021. Each vehicle has been specified with the 422kW/h battery pack, which Pelican claims is capable of daily operational range of over 300km on a single charge. The delivery is aided by the Scottish Ultra Low Emission Bus Scheme.
When this order was announced, there was some mutterings on social media about the wisdom of purchasing these Chinese built buses over buses made locally in Scotland or indeed the United Kingdom itself, especially as Alexander Dennis announced recently that it’ll be commencing chassis production of both BYD electric single and double-deckers at its factories, rather than import the chassis from BYD’s overseas plants. On top of that, there’s Switch Mobility’s (what used to be Optare) offerings and the new owners of what was Wrightbus (Bamford Bus Company) promising a new ‘best in class’ electric double-decker. Hopefully, it’ll do better than the Streetair, which completely flopped.
However as a commercial business, McGill’s is perfectly entitled to purchase what buses it feels best suits its needs and these buses can only help reduce emissions. They’ll be the first such standard service buses of the type in the country. There is already one running at Whitelees Wind Farm, taking visitors around the site.
Whilst Alexander Dennis Limited (ADL) may have disappointed to have missed out on that initial order, it was no doubt cheered by the news a further order by McGill’s group will see its recently acquired Xplore Dundee fleet receive 12 BYD ADL Enviro400EV double-deckers, while a single BYD ADL Enviro200EV will join the 22 previously-announced Yutong E12s in the McGill’s Buses fleet at Johnstone depot.
The single-deckers are to be used on a route between Glasgow and Johnstone and will apparently wear a new livery scheme. Xplore Dundee will deploy its Enviro400EVs to service 28 between Myrekirk and Douglas via the city centre. They will be known as Electric Emeralds. The double-deckers will be the first such buses in the fleet and possibly in Scotland. There was rumours that Lothian Buses had ordered some of the type too but I’ve not seen it confirmed officially.
All the battery-electric buses and infrastructure are to be delivered in the second half of 2021, ahead of the planned - at the moment as it should have happened last year - COP26 summit in Glasgow on 1-12 November. First Glasgow is also expecting its Enviro 200EVs by then also.
In addition to the confirmed battery-electric bus orders, McGill’s says that it is in “advanced talks with a variety of partners” to bring 12 hydrogen fuel cell-electric examples into the Xplore Dundee fleet. They are due to arrive “in the next 12 months.” Dundee is part of the European Union JIVE 2 hydrogen bus project. When the addition of Dundee to JIVE2 was announced, an ADL Enviro 400FCEV was shown but as of yet, the only hydrogen powered double-deckers to enter service have been the Bamford Bus Company’s Streetdeck FCEVs.
This significant investment shows McGill’s commitment to de-carbonising its fleet. On top of these new buses, McGill’s runs a very modern diesel fleet, seen here by I4200 (YX19OTA) branded for services to Erskine.