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Varanasi is the sari manufacturing capital of India - my friend Pramod who knows Varanasi took us thru from how raw silk arrives and is dyed (what's pictured here) and then spun by hand, hand powered looms, electric looms into the most beautiful fabric and articles of clothing. Love the picture of the hand colored from dying silk!
A new occasional series I am thinking about based on a day out. This is part of a set from my day out at the Birmingham NEC for a manufacturing trade fair with my designer daughter.
Its 45 mins after sun up and the sun rays are shinning on the Siemens wind turbine manufacturing plant on the Alexandra Dock Hull.
Siemens have invested £160 million on the plant, from there the turbines are loaded on special ships and transported out to the wind farms being built in the North Sea.
The shot is taken from the viewing area at Barton upon Humber.
La manufacture royale de Meissen est fondée en 1710 par Auguste le Fort, prince-électeur de Saxe; roi de Pologne et grand-duc de Lituanie, selon le procédé découvert et mis au point en 1709 par le chimiste Frédéric Böttger. Cette porcelaine dure utilise le kaolin qui provient des mines de kaolinite situées au nord-ouest de la ville de Meissen.
The royal factory of Meissen was founded in 1710 by Augustus the Strong, prince-elector of Saxony; King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, according to the process discovered and developed in 1709 by the chemist Frédéric Böttger. This hard porcelain uses kaolin which comes from kaolinite mines located northwest of the city of Meissen.
Meissen. Sachsen. Deutschland.
Source: Wikipedia.
The final assembly line of Airbus Canada Limited Partnership in Mirabel, Quebec. Four BD-500 A220s were on the line at any given time.
The aircraft in the foreground was a BD-500-1A10 A220-100 that wore serial number 50053.
It first flew on March 22, 2020 as C-FOWQ. It was eventually delivered as N134DU to Delta Air Lines, Inc. on October 29, 2020 and entered service on December 18, 2020.
The reality according the online -information:
a rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the Sun.There are seven colours in the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
.An example is the brick, six-story Atrium building on the northwest corner of St. Paul and Andrews streets. It was built in 1884 for Tichner and Jacobi tailors for $60,000. When the three top floors burst into flames 10 years later, attracting a throng of onlookers, three clothing manufacturers were located there.
This is another Snoopy plush from Kiddyland in Japan. I've always liked the oddity of a fat Snoopy in a yellow and blue romper with:
"Snoopy The World Famous Super Beagle"
on his chest.
The color scheme and his adorable chubbiness here makes him a Snoopy Pierrot in my mind.
As the series name suggests, he is a beanie, but not so much. If you squeeze him, you can feel the beans but it's also a lot of filler.
Lots of unusual design choices converge to make this a unique and loved Snoopy in our plush collection!
The tag identifies it as a Determined Productions product.
Determined Productions was a pioneering San Francisco-based company that played a major role in the early licensing and merchandising of Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip characters, helping turn them into a massive cultural and commercial phenomenon.
The company's origins trace back to Connie Boucher, a San Francisco window designer and entrepreneur. In the early 1960s, she approached Schulz with the idea of creating Peanuts-themed datebook calendars. Schulz approved, and this collaboration led to the publication of the landmark book Happiness Is a Warm Puppy in 1962 (released by Determined Productions).
The book became a huge success, spending 45 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list (peaking at #2) and selling widely. It essentially launched the category of Peanuts gift books and inspired a wave of character-branded merchandise.
Boucher founded Determined Productions, Inc. shortly after (around 1962–1963) to capitalize on this momentum and develop a broader range of licensed Peanuts products. The company became one of the earliest and most prolific licensees, working closely with Schulz—often described as the first major licensee to collaborate directly with him on product development.
Key highlights of their contributions include:
Iconic graphic sweatshirts starting in 1965, featuring characters with slogans in bold, poppy fonts (e.g., on colorful raglan-sleeved designs like Grassy Green, Peacock Blue, Shocking Pink). These vintage pieces remain highly sought-after by collectors today.
Plush dolls and stuffed toys, including Snoopy plush (they also introduced Belle, Snoopy's sister, in response to fan requests).
Books, day planners/calendars, pocket dolls, pennants, figurines, coin banks (e.g., a 1976 Snoopy coin bank created with Schulz), clothing, toys, kitchenware, and more.
Fashion-oriented lines, such as "Snoopy in Fashion" plush dolls dressed by famous designers in the 1980s.
International expansion, notably licensing agreements for Japan (e.g., a 1970 deal with Familiar Co., Ltd. to produce and distribute Peanuts products there, helping build the brand's strong presence in Asia).
Determined Productions also licensed other characters/properties (e.g., Joan Walsh Anglund, Winnie the Pooh, Wizard of Oz), but Peanuts was central to their identity and success.
Boucher was a trailblazer in the licensing industry—inducted as the first member into its Hall of Fame (Schulz was also later inducted). She passed away in 1995.
The company was active through at least the 1980s (and possibly into the 1990s), producing many classic vintage Peanuts items now prized by collectors.
While modern Peanuts licensing has shifted to other entities (e.g., under Peanuts Worldwide), Determined Productions' early work was instrumental in making the characters "usable and lovable" beyond the comic pages, from everyday apparel to beloved toys. Their catalogs (like the rare 1968 one) showcase the breadth of their output.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
In our toy collecting, plush is not a strong point and that remains true for our Peanuts collection. The 2001 'Many Lives of Snoopy' series from McDonald's Japan is a plush series that we featured from 2020-2021. Because each plush figure was themed, it was easy to create specific scenes.
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Also, in Japan we did pick up a nice series of small plush, about 16mm. These plush seem to have the same origin though there are different tags. The Law Label (The label that is sewn to plush toys containing copyright and materials information.) always has 'Peanuts' and a copyright for United Feature Syndicate. The cardboard tag labels vary with many carrying the 'RM' label. All of the plush were manufactured in Hong Kong. So, we think a Japanese company (Perhaps Nakajima Corporation) manufactured these and released them to various distributors.
Most of these plush have no distinguishing themes or names but rather standard figures released in a variety of colors. We've photographed a couple from this series here:
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And here:
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So, rather than creating scenes with stories, we decided to feature these lovely plush among the Peanuts collection and provide some fun information.
Peanuts
Snoopy Beans (S) Yellow
10" Plush
United Feature Syndicate
Determined Productions
China
La C6 présentée au Salon de Paris d'octobre 1928 est la première six cylindres fabriquée par Citroën.
La C6 est très proche de la C4, mais avec deux cylindres de plus. En effet, la C6 est une C4 plus performante et plus luxueuse, la marque désirant toucher une clientèle plus aisée. Esthétiquement, elles sont donc très proches mis à part la longueur du capot, le réservoir à l'arrière et les nombreux accessoires d'origine sur la C6 proposés en option sur les C4.
La C6 existait en onze carrosseries différentes (cinq ouvertes et six à caisse fermée). Environ 11 000 exemplaires de ce modèle ont été fabriqués entre octobre 1928 et mai 1929.
The C6 presented at the Paris Motor Show in October 1928 was the first six-cylinder made by Citroën.
The C6 is very close to the C4, but with two more cylinders. Indeed, the C6 is a more efficient and more luxurious C4, the brand wishing to reach a more affluent clientele. Aesthetically, they are therefore very similar apart from the length of the bonnet, the tank at the rear and the many original accessories on the C6 offered as an option on the C4.
The C6 was available in eleven different bodies (five open and six closed body). About 11,000 examples of this model were manufactured between October 1928 and May 1929.
Mockba = Moskva means Moscow
Manufactured by Krasnogorsky Mekhanichesky Zavod (KMZ) , Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk, Moscow, former USSR
Model: 1959, type 2b, produced between 1957-60 with quantity 216.457 units
All Moskva-5 produced between 1956-60
There are 2 types and 2 sub-types of the Moskva-5.
As to Alexander Komarov
Folder/Rangefinder medium format film camera
Film 120 roll; picture size dual format: 6x9 and 6x6 with a mask
Lens: Industar-24 (И-24) 110mm f/3.5 four elements in three groups, serial no.133211
Aperture: f/3.5 - f/32 setting: lever and scale on the lens
Focus range: 1.5-15m + inf
Focusing: by a thumb lever, fixed onto the lens-shutter barrel plate,rotates wedge-shaped prisms in its window, turning the knob to focus rotates the glass, thus adjusts the rangefinder images that must be matched,
the rangefinder window on the middle of the top plate sees this prisms apparatus window directly, (prisms assembly is rotatable 180 degrees to the right for the bellows closing)
with no mechanical linkage between the lens and the body
Focusing is possibleby directly rotating the front lens element also.
Shutter: leaf shutter Moment-24S (Mомент-24C), speeds 1-1/250 +B
setting ring and scale on the lens-shutter barrel
Cocking lever: on the lens-shutter barrel, not depends the winding
Shutter release: left side of the top plate, beside the winding knob,
releasing is also possible by a knob on the right front side of the struts
To fire the shutter, the film needs to be transported, if not, the release button will be blocked,
a double exposure locking mechanismindicated by a small window beside the winding knob, before winding it is white and the shutter release is blocked and after winding it is red and shutter release works
Winding knob: left side of the top plate
Viewfinder: coupled rangefinder and dual-format separate viewfinder for larger field of view, separate windows and eye-pieces
The two rangefinder windows are 6.5 cm apart (very long) for accurate focusing
Frame view changes according to the frame size adjustment lever that points the engravings, a square (6x6) and a rectangle (6x9), on the right of the top plate,
this thumb lever moves a sliding frame in the viewfinder
Memory dial: on the winding knob, you can set three film types, and with each film type, four film speeds : (in cyrilic) Tsvetnaya (colour film): 22, 32, 45, 65 GOST, Panchrom (b/w film): 32, 45, 65, 90, Izopanch (b/w film): 32, 45, 65, 90
Bellows opening button: on the right of the top plate; closing: simultaneously pressing to the two struts' back arms
Flash PC socket: X sync, on the shutter
Self timer: knob on top of the shutter
Back cover: removable, a lever in it for controlling 6x6 and 6x9 frame red window's lids, opens by a latch on the right side of the camera
Two red window on the back cover w/ built in lids, right lower side one is for 6x9
Engravings in the back cover: Сделано в СССР (Sdelano v SSSR =Made in USSR)
Engravings on the top plate: Mockba -5 (hand writing style), and
on the back of the top plate: KMZ logo and the serial number
Serial no. 59 22600 (the first two digit shows the production year)
Leather hand grip
Two tripod sockets, 3/8'', on the bottom plate and on the front cover
Body: made by injection molding, weight: 867g
Its main difference from Moskva-4 is added selftimer.
Earlier models of the Moskva were copies of the Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta C. Unlike earlier models, this model is a Zeiss Super Ikonta adapted form, rather than a clone and unlike the Super Ikonta, its solid top plate has a built-in rangefinder and a dual-format viewfinder.
Moskva-5 is the latest model in a series of cameras Moskva brand. Main difference from Moskva-4 is added self timer.
The Moskva-5 was undoubtedly designed as an expensive professional camera, and not as an amateur model. It was built in an age (1956–1960) when 35mm photography was already suppressing 120-film, and only professionals still insisted on using the larger format. Its dual-format characteristics, rangefinder and excellent lens and finish indicate professional use also. Apparently these cameras were used until very late (the 1980's?) by Moscow street photographers. More info:
ERVING — Erving Industries is running its historic paper mill 24/7 making toilet paper, paper towels, napkins and dental bibs.
But the machines aren’t running 24/7 because of the coronavirus panic buying that’s left store shelves empty coast-to-coast.
It’s always this way, at Erving Industries, said Morris Housen, president, CEO and the third generation of his family running the mill, built in 1905, hugging the Millers River a 55-mile drive from Springfield.
“It’s such a capital-intensive business you always want to be running 24/7, every day of the year,” Housen said. “Every paper mill operates this way. We are always at capacity. There has been no surge.”
Erving makes paper — 120 tons of it a day — from recycled office paper collected around New England. The plant collects 12 truckloads of paper and ships 10 truckloads out each day.
The company makes giant “parent” rolls of material that it ships to its clients, Housen said. Those companies then cut up the paper and finish making it into rolls of toilet paper and paper towels, paper napkins and dental bibs.
The rolls destined for various products are barley distinguishable from one another when they leave Erving, Housen said...
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It would appear that the American Manufacturing Bldg was lost for good today in the biggest alarm fire in the last 10years not including 9/11. Apparently the neighborhood were fighting the developers as they tried to declare it a Historic National Landmark. Coincidence or not, the owner of the property had previously in 2003 been investigated for arson on another piece of land in dumbo which went down in similiar fashion.
It is a great loss!
Swine flu from Mexico, news of manufacturing plant scandals that made it back to the U.S., SARS 1 pandemic from China, SARS 2 from China, tariffs, a trade war turning into a cold war, the worldwide Covid pandemic from Wuhan of 2020-2021 that crippled the economy, which nearly shut the company permanently down.
Things are shifting. There are persuasive arguments being discussed among CEOs about hidden long-term costs of manufacturing overseas that do not show up in quarterly and annual financial statements but that bite back hard. Has the equilibrium point and risk shifted so that their company's best financial interest is to bring manufacturing back? That means higher prices. Will those discussions become reality?
Manufactured in August 1940 by Hawker Aircraft Ltd at Kingston, Hawker Hurricane V7497 is a Mk 1 Hurricane who saw action at the height of the Battle of Britain for only 5 days before being destroyed by enemy action.
Assigned to the 501 (County of Gloucester) Squadron at Kenley, in East London on 19th September 1940 she was first flow by Sgt. Sayward on the afternoon of 24th September. This was followed by 5 further sorties over the next 3 days before being shot down by a BF109 on the 28th September over Kent. Her pilot P/O E B Rogers survived by bailing out and parachuting to safety.
Found during an aviation archaeology dig, Hawker Hurricane Mk1 V7497 went to Hawker Restorations for a in-depth restoration which completed on 31 August 2018 and is now based at IWM Duxford.
I've always been fascinated by the steam coming out of these towers in the winter. A still photograph really doesn't do this phenomenon justice. But the light was right and I was in town.
Springfield, Illinois
February 2007
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Car: Ford Mustang.
Year of manufacture: 1968.
Date of first registration in the UK: 12th February 1968.
Place of registration: Surrey.
Date of last MOT: 26th October 2017.
Mileage at last MOT: 52,444.
Date of last V5 issued: 8th October 2019.
Date of last change of keeper: 15th September 2003.
Number of previous keepers: 5.
Date taken: 9th April 2023.
Album: Weston Pageant of Transport 2023 ,
Car: Ford Gran Torino.
Year of manufacture: 1974.
Date of first registration in the UK: 1st December 2022.
Place of registration: Hull.
Date of last MOT: No online MOT history.
Mileage at last MOT: No online MOT history.
Date of last change of keeper: No previous recorded keepers.
Number of previous keepers: 0.
Date taken: 9th April 2023.
CHEVROLET BEL AIR - 1957
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🇫🇷 La Chevrolet Bel Air est une voiture du constructeur automobile américain General Motors sous la marque Chevrolet.
Elle fut produite de 1950 à 1981 durant sept générations différentes. Le dernier modèle fut vendu uniquement au Canada. Initialement, de 1950 à 1952, seuls les modèles Hardtops deux portes dans la gamme Chevrolet étaient désignés par le nom Bel Air, à la différence des modèles StyleLine et FleetLine pour le reste de la gamme. À partir de 1953, le nom désigna aussi d'autres carrosseries. La Bel Air a continué avec diverses autres désignations de niveau de finition jusqu'à ce que la production aux États-Unis cesse en 1975. La terminologie Bel Air continua d'être utilisée au Canada pour son marché intérieur jusqu'en 1981.
Le nom de Bel Air vient d'un quartier huppé de la ville de Los Angeles1.
Un concept car de la marque reprenant le nom Bel Air, fut présenté lors du Salon international de l'automobile d'Amérique du Nord de 2002 mais ne fut jamais commercialisé.
🇬🇧 The Chevrolet Bel Air is a car manufactured by General Motors under the Chevrolet brand.
It was produced from 1950 to 1981 in seven different generations. The last model was sold only in Canada. Initially, from 1950 to 1952, only the two-door Hardtops in the Chevrolet range were designated by the Bel Air name, unlike the StyleLine and FleetLine models for the rest of the range. From 1953, the name was also used for other body styles. Bel Air continued with various other trim level designations until US production ceased in 1975. The Bel Air terminology continued to be used in Canada for its domestic market until 1981.
The name Bel Air comes from an upmarket neighbourhood in Los Angeles1.
A Bel Air concept car was presented at the 2002 North American International Auto Show, but was never marketed.
Made in Leicester by J C Moore.
A 13" diameter semi-automatic machine with 189 needles.
It could produce plain or fancy rib fabric dependant on the use of the patterning discs
This machine was used to make pullovers (jumpers).
NOT your normal wheel, but a concept wheel. !!
Using additive engineering to melt powder material layer by layer using an electron beam to create a wheel.
Forward to minute 2:18 for explanation: youtu.be/ZykPfDbYGoA