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Operator- Arriva Midlands Telford
Operating Area- Shropshire, Staffordshire & Worcestershire
Make- Optare
Model- Solo
Chassie- Mercedes
Fleet No- 2502
Reg- YJ57EKC
Location Seen- Madeley Centre
Service- 8 to Bridgnorth
Info- New to Arriva Midlands
Seen- 2/11/22
Operator: Kinchbus
Service: 9
Destination: Nottingham
Vehicle Type: Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse Urban
Livery: mango
Fleet Number: 715
Reg: FJ58 KKG
Operator: Reading Buses
Make/Model: Scania N94UD/East Lancs OmniDekka (H51/39F)
Registration Number: YN54 AEZ
Fleet Number: 808
Operator: Finland Army
Aircraft: NHIndustries NH90 TTH
Registration: NH-220
C/n: 1261/TFIA20
Time & Location: 10.11.2025, EFTP, Finland
Operator: Reading Buses - (Thames Valley)
Make/Model: ADL E20D/Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 (B39F)
Registration Number: KX64 AEF
Fleet Number: 659
View: Rear
Operator: Reading Buses
Make/Model: ADL E40D/Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC (H47/33F)
Registration Number: YX64 VRR
Fleet Number: 756
SoulRider.222 / Eric Rider © 2022
2015 Kona Supreme Operator frame
2015 Fox 40 Performance Elite fork
2022 Marzocchi Bomber CR rear coil-over shock
Fox M8 x 38mm shock hardware mounting kit
Fox 400# coil spring
Jagwire Lex SL dropper post and shifting cable and housing
FSA Orbit C-40 (lower ABEC sealed cartridge bearing 36° x 45° with a 1.5 to 1.125 reducer crown race, upper ABEC sealed cartridge bearing 45° x 45° )
Wolf Tooth headset bling kit
Renthal FatBar 35mm handlebar
Cateye Enduro CC-ED400 computer
Renthal Integra II 35mm direct mount stem
ODI Rogue Lock-On grips
Hope Tech 3 E4 front and rear brakes
Hope F20 pedals
Kona seatpost collar
Wolf Tooth Dropper Remote
PNW Cascade external dropper post
SDG Radar seat
Roach top tube pad
Shimano Zee FC-M645 cranks
Burgtec Hollowtech II crank bolt
Wolf Tooth Drop-Stop chainring
Wolf Tooth chainring bolts
e. thirteen ISCG-05 chain guide (original 2006 E13 SRS mounting plate and lower guide pulley with an LG1+ upper chain guide plate)
KMC X9.99 chain (9 speed)
MicroSHIFT Advent derailleur (9 speed)
MicroSHIFT Advent Trail Trigger Pro shifter (9 speed)
MicroSHIFT Advent 11-42 tooth cassette (9 speed)
Shimano SM-RT75 203mm front rotor
Galfer Wave 180mm rear rotor
Shimano 180mm R/P180 caliper adaptor
Shimano XT M800 BB92 Hollowtech II press-fit bottom bracket
Renthal Padded Cell chainstay / swingarm protector
Rear wheel:
Custom made - hand-built by Universal Cycles
Industry Nine Hydra MTN HG (12x157mm) Super Boost hub
DT Swiss Competition 14/15/14 double butted stainless steel spokes
DT Swiss brass nipples
Spank Spoon 32 rim (32 hole, 26 inch, 32mm outer width, Schrader valve)
Maxxis High Roller II Kevlar bead tire (26 x 2.40)
Front wheel:
Custom made - hand-built by Universal Cycles
Hope Pro 4 (20x110mm) hub
DT Swiss Competition 14/15/14 double butted stainless steel spokes
DT Swiss brass nipples
Spank Spoon 32 rim (32 hole, 26 inch, 32mm outer width, Schrader valve)
Wilderness Trail Bicycles MotoRaptor (26 x 2.50)
Operator: Saulog Transit, Inc.
Bus body no.: 71736
Manufacturer: Zhengzhou Yutong Group Co., Ltd.
Model: ZK6107HA
A/C System: Overhead
Seating Configuration: 2 x 2
Seating Capacity: 49
Route: Cavite City or Mendez - Olongapo, Cavite City or Ternate or Mendez - Lawton
Shot Location: Saulog Transit, Inc. Cavite City Terminal
Stagecoach West's 15762 OU61 AUT is seen at Cribbs Causeway running the X10 on the last day before passing to Transpora and latterly to Big Lemon, still wearing the branding of its previous life with Oxford Depot
Juanita Gray is shown receiving her certificate from the National Youth Administration War Production and Training Center in Washington, D.C. after graduating circa 1942.
Gray, a former domestic worker, is handed her certificate by U. P. Bond Jr., project manager, while E. R. Rodriguez, youth personnel officer, looks on.
Gray was immediately referred to the Washington Navy Yard where she was initially hired as a helper, but moved up into skilled work within a year.
Washington, D.C. had “Rosies” at the Washington Navy Yard with influxes of women beginning in World War I, though they were nearly all in clerical or cleaning-type jobs. However in World War II, more than 3,000 women were hired at the gun factory into semi-skilled and skilled work with yet another wave during the Korean War of the early 1950s.
These included black women who were initially hired in the lowest grade jobs. However, during World War II, black women trained through the National Youth Administration were brought on into semi-skilled positions with a few moving up into skilled work such as machinist.
Most women left these jobs after each war, but some stayed on and made careers at the Naval Gun Factory (NGF)
The following are excerpts from History of the Washington Navy Yard Civilian Workforce: 1799-1962, by John G. Sharp that traces the history of women at the NGF:
Women Enter the Workforce
During World War I (1917-1918), NGF expanded in size and ran twenty- four hours each day, seven days a week. Because of the acute wartime shortage of civilian workers, the Navy looked to women and created the Yeoman “F” (Female) rating.
This new rating allowed for the first time thousands of women to volunteer for the wartime service.
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, who created the Yeoman (F) rating, did so because it allowed the Navy to call up women specifically to relieve officers and men for sea duty, rather than as a substitute for male civilian employees who were serving in the armed forces.
This wartime experiment proved so successful that many women were kept on after the armistice as civilian employees.
Some like Nellie M. Stein and Ann Tapscott served as Yeoman (F) in the Naval Gun Factory for the duration of the war then immediately went to work as a civilian employee under the civil service as clerks in the same division. Tapscott later became a supervisor in the Accounting Department.
African –American women too began to enter the yard labor force during the war. Most of these new workers, such Mrs. Mabel Brown who began her 36 year career as a “Charwomen” (a title later changed to laborer), worked cleaning offices, laboratories and industrial spaces.
Their work was often hard and physically demanding, but the work was also steady and better compensated than most positions available to them in the private sector.
According to a memo in the Naval Records and Archives Administrations, Nellie Stein began her long federal career in 1912 as a Printers Assistant with the Government Printing Office. When war broke out, Stein volunteered for active duty as a Yeoman F and was stationed at the Naval Gun Factory.
After the Armistice, she was hired as “typewriter” at NGF. In 1932 Stein moved into the new Industrial Relations Division where she “constantly studied laws, directives, comptroller general decisions and books on personnel administration for 14 years.”
Stein and others like her often had to overcome a great deal of skepticism from her male supervisors and coworkers.
Here is one example of the challenges that Stein and other women faced in establishing a place for themselves in the Yard’s work force.
The memo stated, “Ordinarily the Personnel Officer would not recommend a Civil Service female employee to an administrative position. He would not so recommend women to be in complete charge of a division for he does not believe that women are emotionally equipped to meet the demands of such a position.”
Despite his considerable reservations, NGF’s Personnel Officer CDR. Davis did recommend Stein for the job and by the time of her retirement in 1948 Nellie Stein was NGF’s Assistant Personnel Officer (CAF-11), one of the highest graded positions at the factory.
By the 1920s, some factory organizations, such as the Accounting and Supply Departments, not only had large numbers of women but they in fact outnumbered men.
Women Ask for the Equal Pay
In 1919, the National Women’s Trade Union League asked Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, for the same pay as men working in the Yards.
The committee protested to the Secretary against rating women as seamstresses and flag makers in the Navy Yards at the pay of common laborers.
Sewing, the committee contented, was a skilled trade and none of the ratings for male skilled trades were as low. They also complained that seamstress and flag maker inspectors did not receive the same pay as men.
Despite this and other appeals, comparable pay did not become a reality for another four decades.
Women go to War at the Navy Yard and Gun Factory
WW II greatly expanded employment opportunities for women. While hundreds of thousands of men were being drafted into military service,
If vital war production was to continue, women were needed in the factories and offices.
In January 1943, Yard Commandant, Rear Admiral, Ferdinand L. Reichmuth invited the Washington press corps to tour the Yard. Here reporters from the two major papers could view first-hand the work that women were accomplishing at the Gun Factory and other locations.
This tour was the first time that the Yard had been opened to the press in over a year due to wartime security. Reporters were told there were now 1,400 female workers employed in ordnance manufacture. These new entrants ranged in age from 18 to 50.
They came from all walks of life having worked as housewives, dry-cleaners and laundry workers, beauticians, office workers, maids and one, Mrs. Arbutus Howlett, who was previously employed as a farmer.
As demand for labor grew NGF and other munitions producers advertised widely for Woman Ordnance Worker (WOW). The women working in ordnance production were classified into three grades: ordnance worker, ordnance operative and precision operative.
Entry-level pay was 57 cents per hour rising to a high of 108 cents per hour.
The world of the female employee was not free of stereotyping and bias. Most of these women worked long hours and also frequently worked Saturday and Sunday.
Captain J. R. Palmer, Production Officer, reflected some of the views of
the time, when he described the ideal female employee: “She is between 25 and 35 years of age, single and without local family connections.”
“She is a person who has to earn a living and is endowed with a natural mechanical bent and a high degree of adaptability. In her work-a-day world relationships with men in the shops she does not expect the small gallantries a man shows a woman in a social relationship.”
Captain Palmer went on to relate to the reporters: “Women are doing the work usually done by apprentices and some had sufficient skill to work as machinist.”
One top ranking officer summed up the contribution that female employees were making to the workforce as:
“These women are doing a grand job to win the war and win it as quickly as possible. They step into men’s places at the machines and keep them turning without a stop as the men go off to the fighting fronts. Today’s women workers at the Washington Navy Yard produce an ever growing flow of ordnance material.”
The Star reported the biggest problem for the new female workers was finding childcare.
One female reporter who actually worked in Gun Factory ordnance production took a more jaundiced view:
“Equal pay and promotions for women are one of the government standards of employment supported in writing by the Navy Department ....The Navy Yards themselves seem to be unaware of the fact; .... Navy Yard women start at $4.65 a day which with time and a half for the sixth day is $ 29.64 a week. Deduct the 20-percent withholding tax, and you find we luxuriate on $23 a week.”
“The highest pay women on production in our shop receive $6.95 a day, a peak she attained after two years of service at the yard. Men get as high as $22 a day.”
Many of the women working at the factory may have agreed with Mrs. Robert T. Withers, a milling machine operator in the Breech Mechanism Shop with over two years on the production line’s 4-12 shift: “I feel I am helping my husband and my country and keeping busy so that when this war is over I can be a housewife again.”
Women Ordnance Workers Once Again
The Korean War meant a heighten demand for NGF to increase munitions production. This combined with the loss of skilled workers to the reserve call-up motivated NGF to begin a serious effort to hire female ordnance workers. Starting in late 1950 NGF hired hundreds of women.
All of the new workers were given a two-week indoctrination course. Each new employee was provided practical shop training and instruction in how to operate the various machines and tools, how to read blue prints, and the use of measuring instruments.
Some like Mary L. Johnson had previous experience at NGF during WWII and were keen to return. “I worked here once before during the last war and I know something about the work. I honestly feel the work I am doing is important.”
Irene Hunter also had worked three years for NGF in World War II. She welcomed a chance to return, saying, “when I was notified that the NGF was hiring women to work on machines again, I quit my job with the picture company and came here. The work that I do is very exciting and takes steady nerves. I believe had I the opportunity, I would like to work here permanently.”
Kathleen Siggman, who previously had been a model, an assistant buyer of women’s apparel and worked in a private sector machine shop, was enthusiastic: “this is the best job I ever had!”
Daphene Dyer, a war bride from England, related; “I was born in England and spent the last war driving ambulances. That is why I could not go back to office work. I feel that the work I am doing here is essential for my new country and naturally I am anxious to do a job.”
In 1961, the last production runs were completed, shops were dismantled and cleaned, and forges and boilers banked. Over $200 million dollars of equipment such as machine tools, industrial cranes and barges were disposed of primarily to other government agencies.
By the beginning of 1962, NGF workers, who epitomized the rich heritage of the nation’s trade and craft traditions and who had served their country well in the all the major wars of the 20th century, said quiet goodbyes to their friends and shop mates.
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Photo by Roger Smith. The image is an Office of War Information photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress. It was published in January 1943.
Lucketts Coaches, Fareham, Hants.
Irizar i6 C49Ft, new in 2012.
Photographed in Chichester, January 2017.
In March 1987 I spent a day touring a number of bus and coach operators based in the Berks, Bucks, Oxon and Wilts area.
Seen at the Oxford depot of Percivals is 558BWL, one of two former Premier Travel of Cambridge AEC Reliance / Alexander Y-type C53F coaches operated by Percivals. VER261/2L were acquired in 1981 but by 1987 both ABW89L (VER261L) and 558BWL (VER262L) were withdrawn.
Operator: National Express - (Stewarts Coaches)
Make/Model: Irizar i6 (Integral) - (C50Ft)
Registration Number: YN13 BWP
Fleet Number: 7
My Mother was an Operator with Bell of Pennsylvania in the late 1950's and early 1960's. Here she is modeling a headset like the one she used then.
Country: AUSTRIA
Operator: OBB
Item: STEAM
Class or Maker: OBB/78
Wheel Arrangement or Type: 4-6-4T
Number: 78.616
Place details: WIEN PRATERSTERN evening train
Additional notes: Gauge std
Original source material: Agfa 35mm slide
Photographer: Robert W Bridger
Copyright: Photographer
Library locator reference: RWBR.0107
30937 Transport Photograph Database
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A class of Bus Operators graduates at the Zerega Training Facility on Thursday, July 21, 2022.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Operator: Carousel - (Go-Ahead)
Make/Model: Mercedes-Benz Citaro (O530FL) - (B40F)
Registration Number: BT09 GOK
Fleet Number: 879
Company History: (Oxford Bus Group) - (Thames Travel) & (Go-Ahead London) - (London General) - (MEC44)
Operator: Centrebus
Make/Model: Optare Solo SR (M9250SR)
Registration Number: KX14 FHW
Fleet Number: 326
History: Malta Public Transport (Bus 342) - (342)
Type: Boeing Chinook HC2
Operator: 27 (Reserve) Squadron, Royal Air Force
Identity: ZA683
Date: 6 October 2016
Location: RAF Northolt, UK
Event: Northolt Nightshoot XXI
Notes: Special markings commemorating the 100th anniversary of 27 Squadron
Operator- Arriva Midlands Telford
Operating Area- Shropshire, Staffordshire & Worcestershire
Make- Wright Bus
Model- Pulsar 2
Chassie- SB200 VDL
Fleet No- 3780
Reg- FL63DXM
Location Seen- Madeley with Service 1
Info- New to Arriva Midlands Telford Garage
Seen 24/5/22
Stagecoach West E400MMC 10781 at Erdington depot
Vehicle Details
Operator: Stagecoach Oxfordshire
Fleet Details: 10781
Registration: SN66 VZC
Vehicle Type: Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC
Operator: Stagecoach South Wales
Branding: Standard Livery
Depot: Merthyr Tydfil
Route: 38 Twynyrodyn & Penyard
Manufacturer: Optare
Model: Solo SR
Location: Merthyr Tydfil Bus Station
Terre Haute road switcher J708 is coming back from Alcan Aluminum with a string of empty bulkhead flats used to transport large ingots of aluminum to the processing plant.
Operator: Reading Buses
Make/Model: DAF DB250(LF)/Wright Pulsar Gemini (H41/29F)
Registration Number: LJ04 LEF
Fleet Number: 529
History: Arriva (London) - (DW54)
View: Interior (Cab)
Operator: Colas Rail / SRPS
Livery: Colas Rail / BR Blue / Intercity ScotRail
No: 70816, 27001, 47643
Service: Bo'ness to Manuel
Location: Bo'ness
Operator : KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Aircraft : Fokker 70
Registration : PH-KZO
Aircraft Name :
Airport : Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS / EHAM)
Photo Date : 10.02.2012
Remarks :
Operator: Richards Bros, Cardigan (Newport)
Make/Model: Dennis Dart/Marshall C37 (B40F)
Registration Number: P260 SDE