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This is a photograph from the Longwood GAA 10KM and 5KM Road Races and Fun Runs 2014 which were held in Longwood Village, Co. Meath, Ireland on Sunday 19th October 2014 at 11:00. This is the fifth year which Longwood GAA have hosted race events. This year's event was an outstanding success with the number of participants doubling over last year's final numbers. There were almost 400 participants in both events with 224 in the 10KM and 166 in the 5KM. In the first three previous years the club had organised a 5KM road race. The events were organised as fundraisers for both the adult and juvenille teams at Longwood GAA club. The event also provided a fundraising opportunity for the local St. Vincent de Paul charity. Overall the whole day was a great success with the hard work put in by the organising committee ensuring that participants enjoyed their race experience. Both routes were accurately measured, kilometer points clearly marked, junctions well stewarded, and electronic timing provided. The event provided many local runners, joggers, fun runners and walkers with a local event to support whilst at the same time providing runners preparing for events such as the Dublin marathon with an opportunity to race a short, fast, distance in the lead up to marathon day. The GAA club provided excellent stewarding and traffic management all around the course. The race had a professional feel to it and it is sure to grow next year given the very positive feedback from many of the participants today.
This is a photograph which is part of a larger set of photographs taken at the event. There were photographs taken at the start of the races and the finishes of both races in Longwood GAA. The full set is available at this link www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157648845224981/
Longwood is a small village in South East Co. Meath and is close to the town of Enfield with access to the M4 Motorway.
Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. Results are available on their website at www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2100 with additional material available on their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/davidprecisiontiming?fref=ts) See their promotional video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-7_TUVwJ6Q
Overall Race Summary
Participants: There were about 400 participants over the two events.
Weather: The weather was very breezy but dry. The temperatures around 10C.
5KM Course: The 5KM started in Longwood village. Runners then took a left turn in the Village down St. Oliver's Road. This straight section of road brings runners to a left turn onto a very well maintained boreen road for less than one kilometer. The race then emerges and joins with the 10KM at Stoneyford where the runners take a left and then another left before arriving back at the finish line in Longwood GAA club. Overall this is a very fast and flat 5KM with no hills to speak of.
10KM Course: The 10KM event begins in Longwood Village outside Stoney's Pub (goo.gl/maps/Of4fW) and proceeds westward out of the village. There are some interesting points along this part of the course. At the 2KM point the runners will run under the double bridges - an aquaduct for the Royal Canal and a bridge carrying the Dublin Sligo Railway line. The race then enters county Kildare just before the 3km and after taking a right turn at the four-cross roads known locally as Lally's Cross it returns to County Meath on top of the River Boyne Bridge (Ashfield Bridge) which forms the county boundary. The race follows a straight road for the next 2KM until runners encounter Blackshade bridge which is the toughest climb on the route. As a point of interest Blackshade bridge brings runners back over the Royal Canal and the Railway line. The race then crosses the River Boyne again at Stoneyford before taking a right which will bring runners on a testing two kilometer stretch with some short hills. The 10KM course then joins with the 5Km course for the final 1.5KM back to Longwood GAA club for the finish.
Location Map: Longwood GAA club (Race Finish and Race Head Quarters - goo.gl/maps/4a8iQ Google StreetView)
Joining point of the two courses (Google Streetview goo.gl/maps/ICUvs)
Some Useful Links
RESULTS 2014: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2253
www.facebook.com/longwoodroadrace?fref=ts (may require Facebook logon)
Longwood GAA Facebook: www.facebook.com/longwoodgaa (may require Facebook logon)
Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2013: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157636477484093/
Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157631820426332/
Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2011: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157627782257481/
Our photographs from Longwood 5KM 2010: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157625058772687/
Garmin GPS Trace for the 5KM Event in 2013: connect.garmin.com/player/238527691
Garmin GPS Trace for the 10KM Event in 2013: connect.garmin.com/activity/387453099
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Precise numbers are not known but various craftsmen have probably built more Grunau Babies and Baby derivatives than any other sailplane. Thousands were constructed in Western Europe between 1931 and 1945. During World War II, factory records show that 4,104 rolled from workshops in Germany and the occupied countries. After the war, thousands more were built in Czechoslovakia, Spain, Sweden, Great Britain, and Australia. The Grunau Baby also influenced the development of other sailplanes such as the Slingsby Kirby Kite, Slingsby Cambridge 1 and 2, and the Slingsby Type 21 two-seat trainer.
Edmund Schneider designed the Grunau Baby and built the first examples at his factory near the village of Grunau, in the Silesia region of eastern Germany. Today, this area is part of western Poland and Grunau is called Jesow. Schneider built the first Baby in 1931. It was a smaller version of the ESG 31 Stanavo, a sailplane designed during the same year for American pilot Jack O'Meara. Schneider used an innovative wing design patterned after the elliptical wings used on the high-performance sailplanes designed by the Academic Flying Group of the Darmstadt Technical University, the Akaflieg Darmstadt. Schneider's wing held a constant chord from the root to the aileron, and then the leading and trailing edges tapered to a rounded wingtip. To maintain control during a stall, Schneider designed the outboard wing and aileron with washout, or twist. On a wing with positive washout, the trailing edge of the wing curves up near the tips when viewed from the rear.
The German glider champion, Wolf Hirth, had nothing to do with designing the Grunau Baby. However, he lent his name to the Baby sales campaign and for some time, many thought he was the designer. This was easier to believe because the glider handled well in the air and exhibited good performance. The factory at Grunau began to hum steadily to fill a stream of new orders. The fatal crash of another Schneider sailplane at the 1932 German national soaring contest in Bavaria compelled Schneider to hire a professional aeronautical engineer, Emile Rolle who redesigned the Baby from nose to tail. This new version was called the Grunau Baby II. Among its many improvements, the Baby II had a longer wing, reshaped rear fuselage, and a shorter rudder. On April 3, 1933, Kurt Schmidt soared a Baby II all day, all night, and into the next day without landing. He had remained aloft for 36 hours and 36 minutes, a new world endurance record for motorless airplanes. The news electrified the world and for the next ten years, Grunau Baby II production continued without pause.
Schneider continued to refine the airplane and introduced the Baby II A and the definitive II B. The II A introduced a wing of slightly greater span to accommodate spoilers for glidepath control, ailerons with a narrower chord, and for the first time, a canopy and windscreen for the cockpit. When the Baby first appeared, it was accepted wisdom that the pilot should feel as much unimpeded airflow as possible, the better to sense rising and falling currents of air, temperature changes and the like. On the II B, Schneider changed the spoilers to the more powerful Schempp-Hirth, 'parallelogram' configuration and added a wheeled launch dolly that the pilot jettisoned immediately after takeoff. Other versions followed but more Grunau Baby II B gliders were built than all other variants combined.
The Baby II B was nearly a perfect club sailplane. It was relatively easy to build from plans, it flew well, and the aircraft was strong enough to handle mild aerobatics and the occasional hard landing. Novice pilots could attempt their first real soaring, flying high and far, using updrafts generated by slopes and mountain ridges, and spiraling columns of warm air called thermals. Many Grunau Baby II B pilots achieved the coveted Silver-C soaring badge introduced in 1930. This required a pilot to remain aloft at least five hours, gain a minimum of 1,000 m (3,280 ft) after takeoff, and cover a horizontal distance of 50 km (31 miles).
Fleets of Grunau Baby II B sailplanes served as primary flight trainers operated by the Deutsche Luftsport Verband (German Sport Flying Organization, the DLV) created in 1933. The DLV became the Nationalsozialistiche Fliegerkorps (NSFK) in 1937. The Nazi political machine operated both organizations to train military pilots without appearing to violate the post-World War I Versailles Treaty that outlawed such remilitarization. Many of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) pilots that flew during World War II first trained in Grunau Babies.
May 1, 1949, marks the date when the U. S. Air Force officially transferred the Grunau Baby IIb to the custody of the National Air Museum. Very little is known of the glider's operational history. According to the data plates secured to the bulkhead behind the pilot's seat, technicians built this glider in 1944 at the Petera Hohenelbe l/Rsgb. workshop factory. The airframe serial number is 031.016 and the Stammkenzeichen, or registration code, LZ-NC is painted on both sides of the fuselage. Details about how the U. S. Army Air Forces (AAF) recovered the glider are also unknown. For tracking purposes, the AAF assigned the inventory control number T2-2600. T2 signified the Technical Intelligence branch of the AAF and 2600 refers to the number of this particular item. Beginning in the final months of the war, teams of Technical Intelligence personnel scoured Germany and recovered aircraft and pieces of equipment for study and evaluation.
Wingspan: 13.6 m (45 ft)
Length: 5.9 m (20 ft)
Height: 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in)
Weight: Empty, 160 kg (353 lb)
Gross, 250 kg (553 lb)
References and Further Reading:
Simons, Martin. "The World's Vintage Sailplanes, 1908-45." Melbourne, Australia: Kookaburra Technical Publications Pty., Ltd.: 1986.
----. "Sling's Sailplanes," "Aeroplane Monthly," December 1992, 25.
Grunau Baby II B-2 curatorial file, Aeronautics Division, NASM.
Russell Lee, 9-3-04
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I first stamped the flowers with Versamark and heat embossed them with Clear. I colored the background with Distress Ink and removed the embossing with an iron an tissue paper. Finally I made some stitches in the centres of the flowers with pink cord.
Stamps
Hero Arts: Daisy Bloom
Art Journey: Grunge (numbers)
Distress Ink: Peeled Paint, Crushed Olive, Spiced Marmalade, Victorian Velvet, Mustard Seed
Blogged
A Rolex Datejust, but one with a nice dial. This watch actually doesn't belong to me. As I don't like Roman numbers.
I did sold him this strap which looks way better then the original bracelet..... well at least that's my opinion.
(Further pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the ende of page!)
The history of the sanctuary and parish Mariahilf
The beginnings of Mariahilf
Since the cemetery of Hofpfarre (Court Parish) St. Michael - it was too close to the Imperial Palace - in 1508 had to be abandoned due to an imperial command, a new location outside the city walls and the glacis - served as a military parade and defense area - was searched. Only in 1656 could a vineyard in Ried "Schoeff" at the black cross in front of the Widmertor - the present castle gate - to be purchased for the new cemetery.
This Ried "Schoeff" stretched from Widmertor on the slopes of the left bank of Vienna (very small river Wienfluss) to Penzing. Here flourished a famous and popular type of wine, "the Gumpendorfer".
The first cemetery chapel
Picture of grace. At the highest point of this hill a small wooden cemetery chapel was built, that together with the cemetery on 19 April in 1660 was consecrated by Bishop Philipp Friedrich von Breuner. The only decoration of this humble chapel was that of the Barnabitenmönch (monch of the Barnabites) Don Celestine Joanelli - see today's Joanelligasse - donated miraculous image "Mariahülf ", which soon became the destination of many pilgrims from Vienna and the surrounding area.
This representation of Mary is a replica of the miraculous image on Mariahilferberg near Passau, which again is a copy of the miraculous image in the parish church at Innsbruck. All three images, the story tells of miraculous powers. In many "miracle books" - partly till today in Mariahilfer library preserved - is reported about miraculous healings.
The pilgrimages became more and more intense and so the Barnabites were forced to build in the years 1668 and 1669 a stone chapel, including residential buildings for the priests.
In the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, the buildings were destroyed, but the picture of grace in time could be brought to safety by the then sexton Eduard Lampel within the city walls.
The new church
Due to popular demand for the miraculous image, the many pilgrimages and the non-successful floor plan of the building was from 1711 according to the plans of Franziskus Jänckl - a student and construction supervisor of Lukas von Hildebrandt - the church, using part of the existing foundation walls, in its present form built. 1714 choral parts were rebuilt and the nave erected, in 1715 were the towers of the west front - facing the present Mariahilferstraße - ready in shell (2nd construction periode). In the 3rd construction periode 1721-1726 the towers were covered with copper and decorated the west facade with statues and reliefs of J. Jacob and Ignatius Gunst.
A drawing of Salamon Kleiner from 1724 shows the general impression at that time.
Church 1724
Pilgrimages to the holy image of Mariahilf
To get a feel for the intensity of the pilgrimage tradition at this time, some numbers from 1733: 97 692 people received the Holy Communion, 20,000 Holy Masses were celebrated this year in Mariahilf.
The Empress Maria Theresa made a pilgrimage to Mariahilf to ask Our Lady for her intercession. The Chronicle reported that, during the three Masses, those she here attended sequentially, she a quarter hour lying on the ground here prayed and wept.
These and other notable historical documentations can be found until the middle of the 19th Century in the "Akta" of the parish Mariahilf, which can be looked-up in our library.
In the years 1805, 1809 and 1813 during the Napoleonic war took place enormous state processions with up to 90,000 participants to Mariahilf.
Many Viennese suburb and suburban communities pilgrimaged here every year for centuries to pray, to take their concerns to Mary and to obtain a plenary indulgence, under certain specified conditions. Some parishes in Vienna and Lower Austria come even today annually to the miraculous image "pilgrimaging".
In the years 1760 - 100th anniversary, 1860 - 200th anniversary of the mounting of the miraculous image, 1910 - 250 anniversary celebration and 1960 to the 300th recurrence of this event took place festivities lasting for days, the, as the chronicle reported, especially in the years 1760 and 1860 not only religious contents had but also secular celebrations were.
Ultimately led all these conditions and events to the consequence that until now the 6th District of Vienna is called Mariahilf and probably the largest shopping street in Vienna Mariahilferstraße.
The religious communities of Mariahilf
The Barnabitenorden (Barnabite Order) oversaw the parish, which in the meantime from 1722 was also the provost until 1920. From 1920-1923 diocesan priests worked here until church and parsonage were transferred to the Order of Salvatorianer. These were active here until 1997 and had to give up for lack of personnel and financial reasons this location. Subsequently transferred the Archdiocese of Vienna to the Polish Order of Michaelites the care of the parish and pilgrimage church.
Architectural and historic preservation measures in recent decades:
In 1960, on the occasion of the 300 year celebrations the partly wooden marble altars - this was quite usual in the Baroque period for cost reasons - new marbled , that is newly painted. In 1950/55 and 1982, the exterior facades of the church were renovated and restored, from 1986 to 1988 the interior of the church was also renovated and restored the frescoes on the ceilings and walls. Solid plaster damage, moister penetration of the masonry and the increasing pollution from the environment made in 2003 a renewed facade repair at the moment on the Western Front and the two church towers, including the statues and reliefs, urgently required to prevent an even greater extent of damage.
Another construction was 2008-2010, being renovated the remaining facade surfaces of the church (both long sides and south side) including sacristy tower and at the parsonage the roadside west facade and the narrow, southern front facing the courtyard. At the parsonage also an extensive roof renovation was necessary.
Church tower 2, church tower 1 Church Renovation 2010
The historic bell of the Mariahilferkirche - The Schuster Michel
Schuster Michel
After the shoemaker Johann Michael Sailler yet in the previous year had donated a large bell, he gave 1720 again fl 4,000 for a larger bell. This was in the imperial Arsenal by the imperial stucco founder Michael Leopold Heylil casted into tin bronze and weighed 4445 kg with a diameter of 193 cm. On the spot took, took Gottfried Bessel, abbot of Göttweig (Lower Austria), the consecration to the "Blessed Virgin Helper" (ad impositum phenomenon BV Auxiliatricis). It is designed with typical squat baroque style in heavy rib with wide flaring, heavy blow ring carried out and it resounds with massive, very dark basic tone a.
Artistic design of the surface: at the neck (upper edge), a narrow flower frieze, below it then again, broad, by decorative strips edged frieze with rose garlands, enclosed by double trimming elements, the inscription in Roman capitals:
GOSS ME IN LEOPOLD HALIL KAYSERLICHER STVCKGIESSER Wienn 1720 WIGT 7939 PF I AM TO HONOR GOD AND HUMAN SERVICES MANAGEMENT AND READY WHEN I AM (shall) the dead THE TOLL !
The sheath of the bells adorn four cartridges with inscriptions and images: the picture of grace Mariahilf, the Apostle Paul with the sword icon and the founders of the Regular Clerics of the St. Apostle Paul, farther a with an arrow pierced shoe, probably the arms of the founder.
The fourth cartridge contains the chronogram: AVS Dear Rich h MICaeLI Saller generosity Am I AVCH here gehenCket ("from dear rich bounty of the Lord Michael Sailer I 'm also here gehäncket (suspended)"), the capital letters of this inscription constitute the latin number sequence VLIICMICLILLIIIIICVCIC, giving as a result the year 1720.
Schuster Michel
That such a large bell was not so easy to ring by hand and in the course of time were necessary stabilization measures in the belfry, shows an entry in the parish chronicle of 1903: It...."was for the Great Bell "Schuster Michel" of the tower instead of the much more expensive wood helmet an iron belfry .....manufactured, by which the dangers at ringing should be eliminated because now only two men were required to ring the bell and also the vibrations of the whole tower are resolved. "Meant are probably iron bracings and reinforcements in the bell chamber, as the wooden belfry itself continued to remain preserved.
The replacement of the old wooden yoke through a Glockenjoches (bell yoke) of steel followed 1930. When the electrification took place is not documented.
The legend of the "miserly Schuster Michel" was created 1726-1731 and initially referred to a 1719 by the same donor donated, smaller Michael bell. Its defects, which coincided in terms of time with illness and death of the donor, and the in 1731 necessary recast gave this bell a mysterious reputation. As of 1731, hence the name "Michel Schuster" was transferred to the in 1720 also by Michael Sailler donated larger bell. The Michael Bell, however, was later referred to as "Saller-bell" or "Saillerin (Lady Sailler)".
Schuster Michel Schuster Michel
In the heyday (1st half of the 19th century) the Mariahilferkirche was equipped with a total of 8 bells. A detailed Läutordnung (toll regime) already should give the believers acoustically the time and type of worship. The Schuster Michel was rung on the eve before Sundays and public holidays. In the two world wars but in each case bells had to be delivered as war material. 1930 three new bells were still re-purchased, but 1941 the next war took its toll. It remained in the Mariahilferkirche only the historically valuable bell from 1720.
2011: New Patterns for Schuster Michel
Probably 1930, at the Schuster Michel the original wooden yoke was replaced by a steel yoke. These steel suspension proved now but not as convenient, because the ringing of the bell had to be done in a very high Läutwinkel (toll angle). Furthermore, the iron clapper from 1908 was too hard and proportioned wrong and could have hurt the bell. Since the antiquated electric drive, too, was very susceptible to disturbance, the Schuster Michel since Easter 2011 had to be silent.
In order to conserve the Schuster Michel as long as possible, the parish Mariahilf decided to had done some changes. With the renovation work the company Schauer und Sachs from Salzburg was commissioned: The steel yoke was again exchanged with an oak one (approximately 350 kg). As a result, the Läutwinkel (toll angle) could be reduced by 15%. A new round bale clapper, 180 kg, of special steel RSK 100, cast of the company Rosswag in Germany, was installed.
During a small devotion on 25 October 2011, the new clapper was blessed by Father Casimir, before it acceded to the applause of a small crowd of onlookers to the breezy trip to the height on its new location. The unilateral electrical drive has been replaced by an electronic drive with two motors. The screw connections at the belfry were tightened. So the Schuster Michel after a half year break on 28th October 2011 finally could resound again .
The costs for these bell remediations amount to € 20,218.38. Of which bears the parish Mariahilf € 6,803.01. The Federal Monuments Office has a grant of € 5.000, - promised, the rest is pumped in from the Archdiocese of Vienna .
Photos of the installation can be found here: in the photo gallery.
www.pfarremariahilf.at/mariahilf/index.php?mid=Kultur&....
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Another shot from the photowalk this weekend. This one is looking through the edge of a thick pane of glass at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston. There are six million numbers etched on panes of glass like this one, comprising six tall, glowing towers. It's a beautiful memorial to a terrible time.
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Uncropped shot of the barcode on the back of a bottle of 15yo Glenlivet single malt from my sister for my birthday.
For the first time in about 4 years the number blind on 289 fired into life. Now fully program up ready for the season of rallies and shows that's lies ahead.
A Town of One, Two, Three.
The story of Gawler, the first town developed outside of Adelaide in 1839 is the story of numbers. Colonel William Light, after he resigned as Surveyor General for SA, formed a private surveying company with his friend and former Assistant Surveyor Boyle Finniss. (Remember Boyle Finniss became our first Premier in 1854.) They did some commercial surveying; they surveyed a sort of village along the Sturt River at what is now Marion; but the only other town apart from Adelaide that they surveyed and laid out was Gawler.
•Their township of Gawler had three squares- Light, Orleana and Parnell. Light had planned for the squares to be the centres for the Anglican, Presbyterian and Catholic churches. It did not quite work out like that!
•Light carefully sited this town on a ridge of high ground between three rivers –the North Para, South Para and Gawler Rivers. The first two rivers join just below Light’s town to form the Gawler River which flows out to the sea. The town grew quickly for a non mining town and became the 19th century industrial hub of SA.
•The first settlers around the town grew wheat and consequently flour milling became the first industry with three flour mills –the Albion Mill, the Victoria Mill and the Union Mill.
•The farmers needed plough disks, windmills, strippers and winnowers and other farm machinery. The Gawler residents wanted fancy wrought iron lace work to adorn the verandas of their houses and cottages. So from the mid 19th century Gawler became a town of three foundries- the May Brothers Foundry, the Eagle Foundry and the Phoenix Foundry.
•Like all country towns in the 19th century Gawler was dominated socially by a select group of business and social leaders. In Gawler the well respected and known leaders of the 19th century were three prominent men- Walter Duffield - the flour miller, James Martin - the foundry man and John McKinley - the explorer.
Some Unique Aspects of Gawler’s History.
The origins of Gawler are unique in SA. When the Special Surveys of 1839 were offered for those with £4,000 to select 4,000 acres in an area of the person’s choice, a group of farming settlers who had voyaged out together on the ship the Orleana clubbed together to purchase a Special Survey at the junction of the North and South Para Rivers. Those settlers were John Reid, Henry Dundas Murray, E. Jerningham, Stephen King, William Porter, Patrick Tod, James Fotheringham, John Patterson, Thomas Stubbs, John Sutton, Robert Tod and the Reverend Howard. You will see many of these names on the street signs of Church Hill. These pioneering men came to a strict agreement and each donated a certain number of acres for the township of Gawler (named after the Governor of the day) in proportion to the total number of acres they had purchased from the 4,000 acres. Most of this group purchased around 300 acres and donated 7½ acres for the town and parklands but John Reid, Henry Murray, E Jerningham and
Stephen King purchased between 530 and 932 acres each. Hence the main street of Gawler is Murray Street. John Reid was the first to settle in the town and built a house called Clonlea. Stephen King built his sandstone mansion, Kingsford along the North Para a couple of miles out of Gawler. It was used for the TV series McLeod’s Daughters but is now an upmarket bed and breakfast establishment. Some of the others from this Special Survey appear to have sold their land and moved on quickly rather than settling in the emerging township. Fotheringham stayed and set up the town’s first brewery.
Social aspects and a sense of civic pride were always strong in Gawler. It was remarkable that in 1859 this small “gateway to the north” sponsored a competition for a national song to be conducted by the Institute Committee. As we all know Mrs Caroline Carleton won the competition. The Song of Australia was sung in all SA primary schools and was one of the options voted upon for the new national anthem in the 1970s. The music for the song was written by German born Carl Linger and the lyrics and music were first presented in the Gawler Oddfellows Hall in December 1859. The town also offered a prize for a written history of SA in 1861. Henry Hussey won that award. Also in 1859 the township opened the first museum in SA. At one time Mr Schomburgk, who later became Director of the Botanic Gardens, was the curator of this museum. Gawler also formed the Humbug Society in 1859 to consider social and political issues of the day and in 1863 the town established its own newspaper, which is still published, called the Bunyip. In later years it was unique in building so many steam railway engines that were used in SA or exported for use in other states.
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Day 150 of 365 lucky number 13, I read somewhere on the internet that if you think lucky you will be lucky, so get thinking!
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Car no. 1 - indeed!
In 1964 Devon General noted that its fleet numbers were approaching four digits, and decided that its new sequences would be purely numerical, starting at 1 for coaches/single deckers and 501 for double deckers. The honour of being no. 1 fell to the first of eight 41-seater Harrington-bodied AEC Reliance coaches, which were 7'6" wide to allow for touring work. No. 1 gained the special registration of 1 RDV and was favoured by Devon General's Directors who would use it to tour the Company's premises. It took part in the Running Day and is seen during a photo stop in the village of Ipplepen.
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To commemorate 100 years since the founding of the Devon General Omnibus & Touring Company in 1919, a bus rally and running day was held at Newton Abbot Racecourse on Sunday 4th August 2019. The event was well-attended by enthusiasts and the general public, and numerous vehicles were on display, mainly former Devon General buses but also featuring vehicles from other fleets in the South West and further afield. The event was well supported by local enthusiast groups and by Stagecoach South West, the successors to Devon General, who had a number of their own vehicles and staff in attendance.