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Manufactured by Associated Equipment Company for the London General Omnibus Company, LTL-type single-decker buses were used on routes with light traffic or low bridges. Their long and low design and their speed earned them the nickname 'scooters' because they appeared to 'scoot' along. This vehicle entered service in 1931. London Transport museum
On the Baker College campus in Allen Park Michigan is this sculpture which I believe pays homage to engineering and manufacturing. With the exception of the legs (which are made from tree limbs) this fine looking animal is constructed out of everything form hubcaps, tractor seats, snow shovels to fifty five gallon drums. It stands about ten feet tall.
Here is something I do the electrical design for at work. I'd just finished testing. The HDR processing fits a factory and steel very well.
It is a beautiful glass pyramid, with a golden miniature of an airplane inside, which was a gift from the airplane manufacturer McDonnell Douglas to the crew that was in charge of receiving an MD88, registration EC-FIG, which was the third to be delivered, fresh from the factory, for the Spanish company Aviaco Líneas Aéreas.
The delivery ceremony took place before dozens of journalists, workers from the manufacturing company and the receiving company in October 1991, at the Long Beach airport, where the main factory of the McDonnell Douglas company was located.
It was a noble and elegant airplane, with its virtues and defects, like any design produced by human beings, which hardly flies in the skies of this planet anymore.
I completed more than 12,000 flight hours in this formidable bird, first as co-pilot and then as captain.
It's funny that even though the manufacturer obviously didn't know about my interest in ancient civilizations, they gave me a pyramid as a gift...
Photo taken in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain.
UNA PIRÁMIDE MUY ESPECIAL, 2024
Es una preciosa pirámide de vidrio, con la dorada miniatura de un avión en su interior, que fue un regalo que nos hizo el fabricante de aviones McDonnell Douglas, a la tripulación que se encargó de recepcionar un MD88, de matrícula EC-FIG, que era el tercero que se entregaba, recién salido de la fábrica, para la compañía española Aviaco Líneas Aéreas.
La ceremonia de entrega se realizó ante decenas de periodistas, trabajadores de la compañía fabricante y de la compañía receptora en octubre de 1991, en el aeropuerto de Long Beach, donde se ubicaba la fábrica principal de la compañía McDonnell Douglas.
Se trataba de un noble y elegante avión, con sus virtudes y sus defectos, como cualquier diseño producido por seres humanos, que ya apenas vuela por los cielos de este planeta.
Completé en este formidable pájaro, más de 12.000 horas de vuelo, primero como copiloto y luego como comandante.
Es curioso que aunque el fabricante desconociese obviamente mi afición por las antiguas civilizaciones, me regalase una pirámide...
Foto tomada en Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, España.
Paris | 2016
1962 - Zenit Helios 44 (Зенит Гелиос 44) 5, 8 cm f/ 2 -13 blades & red Л- m39/42
Manufactured in USSR by KMZ Krasnogorsk Mechanical Works
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?
For around one hundred and fifty years Long Eaton, Derbyshire was a major lace manufacturing centre and Harrington Mill was the largest of the lace mills in the town. It is still standing and now used by other businesses and is seen here on the 12th February 2019.
In 1885 local building contractor Poxon and Rice won the tender for the building of the first phase of the Harrington Mills in Leopold Street, Long Eaton. It opened for business in January 1887 with the second phase of the building completed by Wheatley and Maule in 1888. The large mill was 550 feet long and four stores high, containing over one million bricks. The semi circular turrets along one side housed the staircases to the landings of the various lace manufacturers who occupied the building. At its peak Harrington Mill contained standings for 255 lace machines and was the largest of all the tenement mills in Long Eaton. The standings were rented out, allowing smaller enterprises to flourish and at one point Harrington Mill housed 26 separate lace manufacturing companies.
Car: Ford Escort 1100 L.
Year of manufacture: 1972.
Date of first registration in the UK: 15th February 1973.
Place of registration: Leicestershire.
Date of last MOT: 23rd July 2019.
Mileage at last MOT: 57,279.
Date of last change of keeper: 15th April 2005.
Number of previous keepers: 4.
Date taken: 18th October 2022.
Album: Carspotting 2022
A woman who weaves fabric like in old times. Only with hands to turn the thread on a spindle and with the feet will be set the wheel in motion. As a rule, 10 hours are worked here every day.
The Swift Motor Company made Swift Cars in Coventry from 1900 until 1931. It grew progressively from James Starley's Coventry Sewing Machine Company, via bicycle and motorised cycle manufacture. This 1927 Swift, SF 7805, is seen at a lunchtime gathering at The Old Bull Inn, Inkberrow.
First produced in 2041, the Asimov Corp MK1 "Anthony" Automatron was the first autonomous robot to be mass-produced. The Anthonys, commonly shorted to Tonys, had a broad list of applications, ranging from construction, entertainment, manufacturing, service, and numerous military roles. Some Tonys however fall into criminal hands, and fulfill more insidious purposes.
My shot at trying to make a robot the size of a minifig. Achieved it through the use of good 'ol flex tubes. If you're wondering why I call it Anthony, look up who played C-3PO.
On the area of their world-renowned ceramic, the Zsolnay heritage lives on with a new content in a worthy manner, at the a beautifully restored 5-hectare area of land. A total of 15 protected historic buildings and 88 public Zsolnay statues feature the scenic parks and promenades.
No correspondence. "Real Photo Series. British Manufacture."
Vesta Tilley was born Matilda Powles in 1864, in a road off Commandery Street in Worcester. Her father worked at Worcester Royal Porcelain, but he was also a performer and encouraged her early career.
She began performing as male characters, such as Burlington Bertie, and became one of the biggest music hall stars of the period. After a brief retirement she returned to the stage during WWI to support recruitment drives and perform for servicemen.
Following the outbreak of World War I and before conscription, Vesta and her husband Sir Abraham Walter de Frece joined other peers from the entertainment sector on a campaign to support the war effort. They embarked on a series of fund raising activities for war related charities. They also set about actively recruiting men for the armed forces. During this period Vesta’s stage characters mainly depicted soldiers and all her songs were patriotic in nature. She played the role of ‘Tommy in the Trench’ and ‘Jack Tar Home from Sea’ and encouraged men in the audience to join her on the stage and enlist during her show. She also sang such songs as 'Jolly Good Luck to the Girl Who Loves a Soldier', 'The Army of Today's All Right', ‘A Bit of a Blighty One’ and 'Six Days' Leave'. At this point in her career, Vesta was a great music hall star acclaimed around the country, and she was very capable of influencing peoples’ opinion. Additionally, variety theatres were hugely popular and were often used as a hub for war propaganda.
Vesta chose to sing cheerful songs, not only with the aim of being patriotic but also to raise the morale of her audience. ‘The Army of To-day’s all right’ was especially successful in encouraging new recruits to join up the war effort and even the War Office used the title for a poster asking for volunteers.
In one week alone, while performing in Hackney, she managed to enlist a whole battalion, ‘The Vesta Tilley Platoon’, supported by Mr Horatio Bottomley (1860-1933) the politician, self-proclaimed ‘Unofficial Recruiting Agent to the British Empire’ and credited with conducting twenty recruiting meetings and 340 patriotic war lectures across the country. The impact of her work during World War I gained Vesta the nickname of ‘Britain’s greatest recruiting sergeant’.
Her performances were also aimed at serving men, who often gave her tips on how to improve her military characters. Vesta enjoyed working with soldiers as she liked to appear as realistic as possible on stage. Throughout the war Vesta became a popular symbol of home for soldiers on the Front, who used to send her requests for her costumes and make-up to use in their own military concerts on war camps, and she was only too happy to comply.