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We were so lucky to see these lionesses with their young cubs.We had to remain very still and quiet in the truck,so as to not frighten them away.Please see my set Africa Overland for more information.
In early 1977 I drove this Bedford SB8 bus (UDL 137) on a trip to India – it had a Duple C41F body and a Leyland 350 engine with a 4-speed gearbox.
The body code C41F means that it was a single-deck, 41-seater with the passenger door at the front. The Bedford model type SB had the suffix '8' which was for those chassis fitted with Leyland 350 engines.
The bus was first registered in May 1960 and operated by Shotters Ltd. on the Isle of Wight, until they sold it in 1971; I've no idea where it spent the next six years before I drove it.
This bus was operated by Tour East, a sister company of Budget Bus. The photo was taken somewhere in Austria by its then owner, John H, who ran Tour East.
Two of the passengers on the Safaris Overland trip to India, that left London in July 1971. This photo was taken in Turkey, of Sylvia and Hillary (looking at camera).
In an era when it ran as a daily overnight train in each direction, the Adelaide to Melbourne 'Overland' waits to depart Keswick Terminal, Adelaide during June 1987 behind Victorian Railways locomotive X48 and Australian National's 967.
Nepal: October 1975
The Dutch 45-seater Van Hool, left-hand-drive bus I had driven from Istanbul to Delhi with a full load of passengers. Now empty, it is photographed on the road from Pokhara to Kathmandu, in Nepal. On arrival in Delhi, enough new passengers were found to fund a two-day round trip down to Agra and the Taj Mahal. This bus was not returning to Europe so I drove it empty across northern India and up into, and across Nepal so it could be sold in Kathmandu. There was no hurry so I took my time; it was strange to drive the thing with no passengers to think about. I'd been tempted to buy the bus myself and run it for two or three or trips between Istanbul and Kabul, and back. I'm glad now that I didn't buy it because not every trip could've run as smoothly as that particular one.
Although it was a superb bus to drive, it was too large for most of the Nepalese roads, with their narrow mountain passes and hairpin bends – it had already proved to be almost too long to negotiate the very tight left turn required to access the roadway deck of the old Attock Bridge across the River Indus in Pakistan.
#140: Grasslands and bushes of Western Victoria blowing past windows of The Overland, as I started my jouney to the Australian Red Centre with a 10-hour train ride into Adelaide. Seats were large and comfortable with generous reclines, definitely airline-first-class standards despite being on a regular-fare Red Service cabin.
The September 7, 2019 Old Car Festival at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan.
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We took off from Cheyenne and paralleled the Overland Route into North Platte before making our way to Omaha. Just east of Dix, Nebraska, UP #2654 splits the steam era signal installations with a westbound manifest.
Beyond doubt the star of the show at this Sarasota classic car event. In 1914, Overland was second only to Ford in overall US sales, pitching to a more upscale clientele. Acquired by Willys in 1908, the Overland name was phased out as a separate marque in 1926.
Future New Overland Park Fire Station 45 and Police Sub-Station at 16279 Antioch Road.
Picture ID# 1775, 1776, 1777
HDR - High Dynamic Range
Lahore, Pakistan: October 1975
This is a left-hand drive Van Hool bus that I drove from Istanbul to Delhi with a full load of passengers. It was one of two buses owned and operated by a Dutch sub-contractor of the North London based overland firm, Budget Bus. The bus had an underslung 9.2 litre Fiat engine and five-speed gearbox. This vehicle was a great improvement on the others I'd driven to India previously; for a start, it was in superb condition and never broke down – it didn't even have a puncture, which would've been easier to deal with as it had Tri-lex wheels. Another thing it had was an effective (engine) exhaust brake.
The photo shows the large overhang at the rear of the bus; in fact, 17 passengers sat behind the rear axle centreline.
The 45-seater bus was photographed while parked in the cheap-hotel district of Lahore, not far from the main railway station. The windscreen had been shattered by a stone on a dirt road in north-east Iran, so we'd driven from there with the front of the bus open to whatever came in – luckily, the dirt roads finished soon after the screen went, the main road through Afghanistan is sealed, as is the Grand Trunk Road through Pakistan and India. Every night, at least two people slept in the bus to look after the vehicle; there was never any shortage of volunteers for this as many passengers preferred to save money by doing so. A replacement windscreen was made by hand from perspex sheet in a Delhi workshop; about a dozen men and boys were involved in making a cardboard template for the shape of the screen, cutting it out in two halves from a large sheet of clear perspex, and hot-forming the (single) curvature with the careful use of paraffin blowlamps. This operation took a whole morning; the end result was a perfect fitting two-piece, or split windscreen, with an aluminium strip down the centre of it. Perhaps fortunately, I never had to use the windscreen wipers from Delhi to Kathmandu, where the bus was going to be sold – any use of the windscreen wipers would have soon scratched the perspex, reducing visibilty through it.
I really love this picture, although I'm not exactly sure why. I guess I just think it looks cool. Side shot from our Land Rover while driving the Laki Loop (F207) in Iceland.
www.americanroads.us/autotrails/dixieoverland.html
Dixie Overland Highway
US 80 Map
Dixie Overland Highway marker The Dixie Overland Highway was an early American auto trail. It connected Savannah, Georgia on the Atlantic with San Diego, California on the Pacific. The Dixie Overland Highway has a rare privelege among named auto trails. Most of the trails were ignored when numbered US highways were created in 1926. The Dixie Overland, in contrast, almost exactly corresponds to U.S. Highway 80.
Pates Bridge on Dixie Overland Highway The Dixie Overland Highway Association formed on July 17, 1914. The association formed after a pathfinding trip was made across the state of Georgia, from Savannah to Columbus, by the Automobile Club of Savannah. This was the first auto trail association formed that would follow any part of what would become US 80.
Dixie Overland Highway SignThe Dixie Overland Highway Association was officially incorporated in the state of Georgia on February 14, 1917. It's motto was "The Shortest and Only Year Round Ocean to Ocean Highway." Way ahead of the rest of the country, Colonel Ed Fletcher and the citizens of San Diego County decided they wanted all of their California section of transcontinental highway paved. The California section would eventually become part of the Southern National Highway, Lee Highway, Old Spanish Trail Highway and Bankhead Highway as well. By 1917, most of the California section was paved with a narrow roadway of either Portland cement or plank road from Yuma all the way to San Diego.
Mountain Springs Survey GroupIn May 1919, with encourgement from Ed Fletcher, the Dixie Overland Highway Association chose San Diego as its western terminus, and elected him as president of the association. One month before the final approval of the US Numbered Highway System in 1926, Colonel Ed Fletcher decided to head a single-car time-race along the Dixie Overland Highway from San Diego to Savannah in a Cadillac sedan. The team in the Cadillac made the run in 71 hours and 15 minutes across a distance of 2535 miles, a transcontinental record-shattering feat at the time and still impressive today. The group later traveled south to St. Augustine, Florida to begin the return journey via the Old Spanish Trail.
Dixie Overland Highway National Highways Association MapThe US Numbered Highway System was created in November 1926. Much of the Dixie Overland Highway became US Route 80. The only parts of the DOH that were not incorporated into US 80 were three sections in Georgia, two short sections in Alabama, and one across western Texas. The sections not included as part of US 80 were:
•Between Savannah and Stilson, Georgia
•Between Stateboro and Twin City, Georgia
•Between Haskins Crossing and Colombus, Georgia (State Route 26)
•Between Browns and Uniontown, Alabama (mostly State Route 12)
•Between Demopolis and Livingston, Alabama
•Between Roscoe and El Paso, Texas (US 84, 380, 70, and 54)
Dixie Overland Highway cities and towns by State
•Georgia
Savannah, Brooklet, Statesboro, Register, Metter, Twin City (Graymont), Swainsboro, Adrian, Scott, East Dublin, Dublin, Dudley, Cochran, Hawkinsville, Montezuma, Oglethorpe, Ellaville, Buena Vista, Columbus.
•Alabama
Phenix City, Crawford, Tuskegee, Shorter, Waugh, Mt. Meigs, Montgomery, Benton, West Selmont, Selma, Potter, Marion Junction, Uniontown, Faunsdale, Prairieville, Demopolis, Coatopa, Livingston, York, Cuba.
•Mississippi
Toomsuba, Russell, Meridian, Lost Gap, Graham, Meehan Junction, Chunky, Hickory, Newton, Lawrence, Lake, Forest, Raworth, Morton, Clarksburg, Pelahatchie, Guide, Rankin, Brandon, Jackson, Clinton, Bolton, Edwards, Bovina, Vicksburg.
•Louisiana
Delta, Mound, Tallulah, Delhi, Dunn, Holly Ridge, Rayville, Girard, Crew Lake, Monroe, Calhoun, Choudrant, Ruston, Grambling Corners, Simsboro, Arcadia, Gibsland, Ada, Minden, Shreveport, Greenwood.
•Texas
Marshall, Longview, Dallas, Fort Worth, Weatherford, Palo Pinto, Breckenridge, Albanay, Abilene, Greatwater, Snyder, Gail, Tahoka, Brownfield, Plains, (into New Mexico), El Paso.
•New Mexico
Roswell, Alamagordo, (El Paso, TX), Deming, Lordsburg.
•Arizona
Douglas, Lowell, Bisbee, Tombstone, Benson, Pantano, Vail, Tucson, Florence, Superior, Apache Junction, Mesa, Tempe, Phoenix, Tolleson, Avondale, Liberty, Buckeye, Palo Verde, Arlington, Gila Bend, Piedra, Sentinel, Stanwix, Aztec, Stoval, Mohawk, Colfred, Wellton, Dome, Yuma.
•California
Winterhaven, Holtville, El Centro, Seeley, Dixieland, Jacumba, Boulevard, Pine Valley, Guatay, Descanso Junction, Alpine, El Cajon, La Mesa, San Diego.
Dixie Overland Highway routes and directions by State
•Georgia
•Alabama
•Mississippi
•Louisiana
•Texas
•New Mexico
•Arizona
•California
Dixie Overland Highway Links
United States Route 80: The Dixie Overland Highway (Federal Highway Adminstration)
The Plank Road - Journal of San Diego History
Overland Park, Kansas Fire Department's New Engine 43
Picture ID# 7590, 7591, 7592
HDR - High Dynamic Range
Back from a two week trip to Colorado and New Mexico and starting to go through over 25GB of images. My hard drive on my old computer can't handle all the images, so I have to go through my old files and delete the obsolete and redundant in order to accommodate the new. It will be an ongoing process so I've decided to select and upload the pictures in roughly chronological order.
Special note to Simon K: this is the picture I was making when you and Jenny rolled up at the motel, :-).
On a recent trip north I saw a couple of Wedge Tail Eagles around 70kms North of Port Augusta. After heading into the scrub to capture them, I was amazed to find piles of old tins, wire & rubbish laying about the shrubs & sand of the Arid Lands . I also noticed what can only be discribed as tree branches lined up for miles at 20 or 30m intervals. I finally made the correlation when I noticed that most of these posts had wire & or metal brackets on them. I'm assuming that this is the original Overland Telegraph Line that ran from Adelaide to Darwin. Erected in 1872, running a single Telegraph Line between the two capitals, if my vague memories from school are correct, this line did run through the Flinders Ranges.
A little more research tells me that the single strand line spanned 3,178kms.
Now that I've gone to this trouble to explain my find & shot, I'm certain someone will inform me that I was nowhere near the Overland Telegraph Line!
Portrait of moi taken by (Jt). You can visit his photostream here: www.flickr.com/photos/44290369@N08/
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julie in the dining car of the overland, the interstate train that runs between tarndanya/adelaide, south australia, and naarm/melbourne, victoria
NR118 is seen at the Adelaide Parklands Terminal just before coupling to the Overland Service of 6AM8 for the 828 Kilometre journey from Adelaide to Melbourne.
Turkey: October 1971
The Safaris Overland bus I was driving from India to London, seen here parked in the town of Agri, in north-eastern Turkey. The snow on the bus had come over a thousand miles from north-eastern Iran, not far from the Afghan frontier – however, it was to start melting the next day, once we'd got over the Tahir Pass.
The clouds changed every few seconds up here. We were very lucky to get a great view and photos before heavier/lower clouds settled in.
A hot summers Saturday morning sees 6MA8 Overland cruising up the Callington curve with CLP8 on the front on 12-1-1996