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Operator: DRS
Livery: DRS
No: 68033 & 68030
Service: 6K41 Valley Nuclear Electrics to Crewe Coal Sidings (Drs)
Location: Abergele & Pensarn
Operator: Reading Buses
Make/Model: ADL E40D/Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 (H47/33F)
Registration Number: SN11 BRX
Fleet Number: 1208
History: Weavaway Travel
Operator: UKRL
Livery: UKRL
No: 56098 'Lost Boys 68-88'
Service: Rawtenstall to Bury
Location: Summerseat
Operator: TfW
Livery: Unbranded Arriva
No: 175005 & 175008
Service: 1H85 Llandudno to Manchester Airport
Location: Llandudno Junction
Operator: SAULOG TRANSIT, INC.
Fare Class: Regular Air Conditioned
Type of Operation: Provincial Operation
Brand: Hino Motors Ltd.
Chassis: RM2PSS
Engine: P11C-TH
Transmission: 1-6 + R Manual Transmission
Body: Pilipinas Hino RM/RK 2005-2007 Series
Seat Config.: 2x2
Total Pass.: 53
Operator: Coast Mountain Bus Company
Route: 340 22nd Street Station
Manufacturer: New Flyer Industries
Model: XN40
Date Taken: 2/1/2019
Operator- Arriva Midlands Telford
Operating Area- Shropshire, Staffordshire & West Midlands
Make- ADL
Model- Enviro 200
Chassie-
Fleet No- 2149
Reg- MX12JXM
Location Seen- Telford Bus Station
Service- 3A Telford Centre - Brookside
Info- New to Arriva Midlands
Seen- 4/3/26
Graphic presented during Orbital Sciences Mission Preview Briefing by Courtenay McMillan, NASA flight director.
Received it after passing my training at the Canadian Space Agency on the Space Station Robotic Manipulator System (SSRMS, or Canadarm2
Operator Name: Smiths of Marple.
Fleet / Reg No: C666 LJR.
Chassis: Leyland Olympian.
Body: ECW H45/32F.
Location: Smiths of Marple Depot, New Mills, Derbyshire.
Date: 13th October, 2012.
Operator: Northern
Livery: Northern
No: 150127 & 150118
Service: 2H30 Chester to Manchester Piccadilly
Location: Chester
Operator: Harrogate & District Travel Ltd
Fleet Number: 1087
Registration: PO51MUA
Body/Chassis: Volvo B10BLE Wright Renown
Chassis No: YV3R4A51921008308
Seating: B44F
New: December 2001
Ex: Lancashire United
Livery: Harrogate Connect
Date: Saturday 29th April 2017
Location: Leeds Bus Station
Route: 771 (Leeds)
Operator: Thames Travel - (Go-Ahead)
Make/Model: Mercedes-Benz Citaro (O530FL) - (B42F)
Registration Number: OF56 OXF
Fleet Number: 851
Company History: (Oxford Bus Group) - (Oxford Bus Company)
Operator: Newbury & District - (Reading Buses)
Make/Model: ADL E40D/Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC (H41/35F)
Registration Number: SN16 OHC
Fleet Number: 785
History: Weavaway Travel
OPERATOR :-ARRIVA YORKSHIRE
REGISTRATION NUMBER[S] :-YJ61OAA
FLEET NUMBER :-1508
LIVERY :-ARRIVA WEST RIDING 110 YEARS
CHASSIS :-WRIGHT BUS 2DL
BODY :-WRIGHT PULSAR GEMINI II
DEPOT :-BELLE ISLE
ROUTE :-N.I.S.
Operator: Reading Buses
Make/Model: Scania N230UD/East Lancs Olympus (H51/28F)
Registration Number: YN08 HYO
Fleet Number: 852
History: Midland Classic (57) - (04/2009) & Repurchased (10/2018)
Cemetery: Restlawn
Comments:
Restlawn is a flat-stone cemetery run under the auspices of Dignity Memorial, the “largest network of honored funeral, cremation and cemetery providers” in the country, with some 1600 affiliates. From their literature it’s not clear how ownership is distributed. Cemetery displays perhaps ten or more treeless acres up the side of a hill bordering Highway 22. If you’re going to be buried there, I’d recommend as far away from the highway as possible. It’s gone under a number of variations on the Restlawn theme, including such things as Restlawn Memory Gardens and Restlawn Memorial Garden, but the new operators appear to have shortened it to the current short form.
While not advertising itself as such, Restlawn should probably be classified as fundamental Christian, as that’s the predominating theme, with religious tableaus and the cemetery divided into religious “gardens,” though ones devoid of plants or flowers. It has one exception to the “no uprights” rule, that of a “freeform” monument to Donald Walters (1969-2003). Donald’s marker is testimony to much more than a young man cut down in his prime, it’s a prime example of a recent phenomenon in the cemetery trade: carrying ones cause to the tomb. For the most part, people in their departure take the opportunity to get right with their god or be remembered by their friends for the good they brought into the world, but now, on the fringes, some people are taking their anger with them to the grave. One expects to see a clenched fist pushing out of the ground.
Or maybe not. Maybe it’s more the living taking advantage of the dead by using their name to further their own agenda. Like historical markers, memorials such as that for Donald say more about those who erect them than the events themselves. I’d bet your bottom dollar that Donald, whose stone lists: “Operation Desert Storm/ Operation Iraqi Freedom - KIA - POW/ 507th Maintenance Co.,” didn’t provide his own epitaph. It wasn’t his idea to make him into a cause celèbre. The back of his headstone contains the long epitaph:
“I would lay down my life for my family and nation if it was worth it, and this one is to let them appreciate the taste of their freedoms. Freedom isn’t free and someone must do what they must do to preserve it. The Bible states, “Blessed is he who lays down his life for the sake of his friends.” I fear not and am motivated by the fear of the unknown and being a part of the bigger picture. Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger.”
Was that passage taken from a letter from Donald? Part of it? Was it a compilation? Who chose? There are many other veterans from many other wars in Restlawn; none of them lists their operations name rather than their war. And none of them gets an upright; only Donald. Donald gets a picture under glass too: hunched down on one knee, dressed in camouflage, but not combat gear. When he returned from his first tour of duty in Kuwait, he was “a changed man,” his father said. “He was super nervous, which is understandable. He saw horrible things.”
Nonetheless, he reenlisted in the Army Reserves and returned to the Middle East for the next war. In Iraq he was a cook, but his parents didn’t know what he did in Kuwait. He was, by all accounts, an accidental soldier. He wasn’t seeking combat, it sought him. He was satisfied with being a cook, but an ambush made him a soldier.
Donald’s tombstone says, somewhat ambiguously, that he was both “killed in action” and was a “prisoner of war.” Reading through the various accounts of what happened, all we really know is that a convoy in which he was riding was attacked and all but a handful of the American soldiers were killed, the rest taken prisoners and subsequently executed. Donald was among those taken prisoner. One can only imagine it would have been best to be killed in the first round.
Would Donald have so freely tossed out the tired clichés: “freedom isn’t free,” and “whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger”? How is it that he “fear[s] not,” yet is “motivated by the fear of the unknown and being a part of a bigger picture”? What does it mean to fear “being a part of a bigger picture”?
The modern politicization of death is further emphasized at Restlawn by a handsome plaque “In Memory of all Vietnam Veterans,” a recent addition these many years after the fact. It has an embossed compilation scene of action in Vietnam:
“This memorial was erected in memory of the young individuals who went to war as kids and lost their youthful dreams, and some their lives, for a cause - freedom and honor - and came back as men with the horrors of war instilled in every fiber of their being and were never given the respect and honor they so deeply deserved from the public or the United States government.
“God will one day judge our actions. Until then, He will shine on the lives of each veteran now and forever more because He was with each of them in Vietnam. He is the only One that truly knows what they went through and are living with every day.”
As with Donald’s stone, sad and unfortunate confusion clouds reason and judgment. Surely, God was with the Vietnamese soldiers as much as with the Americans. After all, they won. And whether or not a soldier deserves “respect and honor” depends, I presume, on which end of the barrel you’re visiting.
All of which begs the question of whether or not Vietnam was about “freedom and honor” any more than the Gulf Wars were. Not to mention the question of “where does the love of God go, when the minutes they turn into hours”? One might want to be cautious about welcoming God’s judgment.
Huddersfield Bus 804 a Leyland Olympian NC Palatine (K4YCL) still in Yorkshire Traction livery, K-Line 615 a VDL Wright Cadet (YJ05PVO), Stotts Mercedes Plaxton Beaver (N276JUG) parked up and a Firstbus entering Huddersfield Bus Station on 18th April 2009.
Operator: Kennections - (Reading Buses)
Make/Model: ADL E40D/Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 - (H45/22F)
Registration Number: DU62 FHK
Fleet Number: 1214
History: Go Goodwins (LA60 ODY) & Lloyds Coaches (LC62 WYN)
View: Kennections (Livery)
Operator: Reading Buses
Make/Model: Scania K340EB4/Caetano Lenante (C49FLt)
Registration Number: FJ57 KJU
Fleet Number: 1402
History: South Gloucestershire Bus & Coach - (National Express)
View: Greenline (Branding)
MacSimski repaired this film projector and was testing it with some of his leftover film reels from his days in cinematography.
Some manual adjustment was required to get the sound in sync with the pictures.
Operator: Reading Buses
Make/Model: Dennis (TransBus) Trident 2/Alexander (TransBus) ALX400 (H47/28F)
Registration Number: WA04 CPZ
Fleet Number: 536
History: Stagecoach - (18062)
View: Interior
IAF Search-and-Rescue Unit 669 Special Operators train for Urban Warfare in Palmahim AFB
Photography: Adi Abu
לוחמי יחידה 669 באימון לוחמה בשטח בנוי בבסיס פלמחים
צילום: עדי עבו
Photographer: Rosenfeld and Sons
Description: 8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on December 7, 1916. Image of female switchboard operator at switchboard. Visible in image: female operator at switchboard, adjusting the toggle on the "Western Electric / COMPANY / 2RES. / FORIEGN BATTERY / 2 VOLT / GROUND / M.D.T. / ROWLER / MAG. / TALK / RING. / REV." box, with gauge above "MADE BY / WESTON / ELECTRICAL / INSTRUMENT / COMPANY / NEWARK / N.J. USA / NO.". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "5663 / 12/7/16 / 458-6 / 3 Rd from left Bottom / in frame / Busyman Story / Tel. Co. Mr. Carroll / Box 458".
Operator Name: Strawberry Bus.
Fleet / Reg No: 21 EK51 XXO.
Chassis: Dennis Dart 8.8m SLF.
Body: Plaxton Mini Pointer N29F.
Location: South Lancs Travel depot, Atherton, Lancashire.
Date: 21st October, 2012.
Walter Ernest Bauer (1921-1992), tourist-resort developer and operator, was born on 24 February 1921 at Gin Gin, Queensland, third of nine children of Queensland-born parents Ernest Michael Bauer, draper, and his wife Anna Wilhelmine, née Rackemann. In 1928 Wally enrolled at Gooburrum State School. After he and his brother Colin passed the 1934 State scholarship examination, the family moved to a dairy farm at Lindum, near Brisbane, so the boys could attend Brisbane Grammar School. There Wally displayed 'fair industry and ability' (BGS GR) and sat the junior public examination in 1936. The next year the Bauers took over Henry Lamond's lease of the Molle group of islands by exchanging the Lindum farm. With two other families, they started developing South Molle as a tourist resort. Wally soon obtained his master’s ticket so that he could skipper the island’s launch.
Enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force on 21 June 1941, Bauer qualified as a pilot and flew in the South-West Pacific Area with No. 36 Squadron (1943), No. 5 Communication Unit (1943-44), and No. 4 Communication Unit (1944-45). His superiors appreciated his quiet efficiency and pleasing manner. He was demobilised on 4 September 1945 as a flying officer. On 20 March 1944 at St Paul's Church of England, Proserpine, he had married Frances Alice Beatrice Walmsley, a shop assistant; they were to have a daughter and two sons before being divorced.
After World War II Bauer took over the Kincora Hotel at Lower Tully but by 1950 he was back on South Molle as assistant manager of the resort. Keeping in touch with former guests was an important part of the family’s ethos. They conducted a number of reunions of South Molle holiday-makers at Rockhampton and other cities in the 1950s. An annual ball was held at the Cloudland Ballroom, Brisbane, for 'friends of the island,' proceeds of which went to charity.
In 1955, following Ernest Bauer's retirement, the lease was transferred to his sons. Over the following years, family members went their separate ways and Wally became sole manager in December 1959. Under his direction, South Molle gained the reputation as a place of fun, where neckties were not allowed. His outgoing personality was well suited to the hospitality industry. In the 1960s he printed his own currency, the ‘reef,’ for use on the island; it featured his portrait and was a highly successful promotional idea. On 9 August 1967 at the Court House, Bowen, he married Thelma May Martin, née Rackemann, a secretary and divorcee.
Bauer presided over the Great Barrier Reef Promotional Council and instigated the annual Whitsunday Festival and the Coral Queen competition. He fostered a spirit of cooperation with the managers of other Whitsunday resort islands to jointly advance their interests, and he campaigned for the construction of a new jetty and tourist facility at Shute Harbour to service the islands.
In January 1970 the South Molle resort was badly damaged by cyclone Ada. After a challenging year of rebuilding and re-establishment, Bauer sold the business to Peter Vaggelas in November 1971 and moved to Port Macquarie, New South Wales, where he briefly developed the Palm Court Garden sport resort. He then retired to Buderim, Queensland. Survived by his wife and the children of his first marriage, he died on 3 December 1992 at Buderim and was cremated.
Source
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bauer-walter-ernest-wally-16705
Image source: Queensland State Archives Item ID ITM435811 Islands - Barrier Reef