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The last double deck buses new to Mayne Manchester were two Dennis Tridents with Plaxton President bodywork register MX03KZN and KZP arriving in 2003, as expected both passed into Stagecoach ownership in 2008 when Maynes sold out to Stagecoach. Receiving corporate livery they were based at Hyde Road and often found themselves on their former routes running through Droylsden. Unexpectedly these two Presidents received Magic livery in late 2009 and as the first low floor Magics they transferred over to Sharston where they remained until August this year when they returned to Hyde Road and were painted back into corporate colours. MX03KZN a month after returning to Hyde Road hit a low bridge whilst on Metrolink replacement work and the expectations were that due to its advancing years it would not be repaired, the damage was not too severe and repaired it was, it is seen here a day or so after returning to service running through Daisy Nook just as it did when new, but for how long is the new question as rumour has it they may be off soon to Plymouth which is unfortunately a bit far for me to chase them.
Repairs to the sea wall are taking place at Dawlish after storm damage as a Cross Country service passes - 29.12.14.
Got the old bike out - finally! Need to get it back into condition for the road, so I don't have to walk to everywhere! Ended up with a photo too. Troubled Tuesday? :-)
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Old cars up for repair and restoration. These cars, if their owners are willing to part from them, will probably sell for much more than what they originally were worth before restoration.
Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan artillery fort located in the village of Upnor Kent. Its purpose was to defend ships moored "in ordinary" on the River Medway outside Chatham Dockyard.
The property is owned by English Heritage and managed by Medway Council.
Due to its sheltered position, close to London, the River Medway was used to build and repair warships, and to moor them in ordinary, that is with the rigging sails removed. To protect this fleet, Queen Elizabeth and her Privy council ordered in 1559, that a bulwark be built on the river at Upnor in the parish of Frindsbury for the protection of our navy. Six 'indifferent persons' selected a site opposite St Mary's Creek and 6 acres of land was purchased for £25 from Mr Thomas Devinisshe of Frindsbury. The bulwark was designed by Sir Richard Lee, but the building was supervised by Humphrey Locke and Richard Watts. Stage one was finished in 1564. In 1564 twenty three of the Queen largest ships were moored in Bridge Reach.
In 1585, at the instigation of William Bourne the Master Gunner, a chain was laid across the river, as this was more effective than gunfire in sinking enemy ships. The castle however was inadequately manned, and further modifications were planned. In October 1599, Sir John Leveson's estimate for new works was accepted. A timber palisade was placed in the river, the water bastion was raised to a greater height with a parapet of good height and an enclosing ditch 18 ft deep and 32 ft wide dug to protect the castle from the landward side. 612 tons of rag-stone and 223 tons of ashlar was removed from Rochester Castle. Altered in 1625, and again in 1653. In 1623, Upnor had 18 guns of various sizes.
During the Civil War The castle was surrendered to the Parliament in 1642. A Royalist rebellion in 1648 seized the castle. It was returned to the Parliament, and following a visit by General Fairfax (Parliament) further repairs were planned. It was used as a prison
The Dutch Republic during the Second Anglo-Dutch War had suffered a severe setback in the St James's Day Battle in August 1666. Believing the Dutch would therefore be more inclined to remain inactive, Charles II of England delayed the peace negotiations at Breda though he hadn't the money in 1667 to put out a fleet. To the surprise of the Admiralty, in June of that year, a Dutch fleet, under Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, came up the Thames to Gravesend. It turned towards Chatham and burnt down the fort at Sheerness. The chain was in place between Hoo Ness and Gillingham. On the 12 June 1667 either a Dutch ship broke the chain or a landing party cast it loose. The Dutch had been piloted up the channel by disaffected English sailors, and the Dutch Captain of the Marines, Colonel Dolman, was also English. There was limited resistance from Chatham or the dockyard as the workers had not been paid for two years.Mr Wilson reported to Pepys that there were many Englishmen on board the Dutch ships speaking English to one another. HMS Royal Charles was taken to be carried to the Republic and many ships that were lying along the dockyard wall were destroyed, such as the HMS Royal Oak. The Dutch anchored when the tide turned and didn't resume the attack until the next day. The Duke of Albemarle arrived and put an eight gun battery (Middleton's Battery) alongside the castle. Pepys wrote I do not see that Upnor Castle hath received any hurt by them though they played long against it: and they themselves shot till they had hardly a gun left upon the carriages, so badly provided they were. So lack of munitions was Upnor's failing. On the 24 July 1667 a Royal Warrant ordered that Upnor be strengthened. On 14 August 1667 terms were ratified at the Peace of Breda; hostilities ended 26 August 1667.
Pepys, who knew all the principal players wrote a contemporary diary, reading it allows one to feel his frustration at the incompetencies of others and his own ability to ascertain the truth. The King was bankrupt. He was related to the French King. He had opened secret negotiations with France in 1666. He thus issued instructions to lay up his big ships. The Royal Charles was unmanned and the dockyard didn't even have boats to reach her. With that Upnor's career as a castle finished.
In 1668 the defences of Chatham were revised. New batteries were built at Cockham Wood 1-mile seaward of Upnor and at Gillingham. The chain was no longer used. In 1668 it was converted into a place of stores. Hundreds of barrels of gunpowder were shipped here from Tower of London Wharf, later there is mention of barrels of cornpowder being taken from Upnor to the fleet anchored at the Nore. In 1718 barracks were built. Life followed a regular uneventful pattern for the two officers and 64 soldiers. The Magazine closed in 1827 and by 1840 there was no gunpowder left. It became an Ordnance Laboratory. New magazines were built at Chattenden away from the river, and in 1872 a Military railway was laid connecting Chattenden and the river.
In 1891 the Castle was transferred from the War Office to the Admiralty. It continued in service until 1945 when it was declared a museu
Event: Morris Minor Repairs - 07/09-05/10/24
Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Camera: Pentax ME Super
Lens(s): 28mm f/2.8
Film: Ilford Delta 400
Shot ISO: 800 (+1 stop)
Light Meter: Camera
Lighting: Various
Mounting: Hand held
Firing: Shutter button
Developer: Ilford DD-X(1+4) for 10m 30s
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)
Sat 26 Sept 2015, a Restart Party where folks bring broken things and experts help them to try to repair it.
Yank tank or máquina are the words used to describe the many classic cars (for example: 1957 Chevrolet, 1953 Ford, 1958 Dodge, etc.) present in Cuba with an estimated 60,000 of them still driving the roads today. In 1962 a United States embargo against Cuba was introduced, effectively cutting trade between the two countries. This meant that the cars in Cuba could no longer receive new replacement parts when something broke. Currently, the only way to keep these cars on the road today is by using Cuban ingenuity to adapt household products and Soviet technology into these vehicles. If a car is unable to be repaired at the time, the car is usually either “parked” for future repair or “parted out” (to produce extra income for the owner’s family) so that other cars can remain on the road. During the years of Soviet Union influence on Cuba, Ladas, Moskvitchs and Volgas became the main cars imported by the communist regime, mainly for state use. As a result of these internal economic restrictions, to this day there is no such thing as a new or used private European or Asian automotive dealership branch in Cuba for independent purchasing by regular Cubans.
The only American cars that can be purchased for private use in Cuba (with "particular" plates) are those that were previously registered for private use and acquired before the revolution. However, if the owner doesn’t have the proper paper work called a “traspaso”, the vehicle cannot be legally sold. American cars that were present, at the time of the embargo, have been preserved through loving care and ingenuity. And since there were many of these, due to the presence of a past strong Cuban middle-class, classic cars have been the standard, rather than an exception in Cuba. Even President Fulgencio Batista’s son owned a 1956 Corvette. Due to the constant good care, many remain in good working order only because Cuban people are able to adapt to a diminishing source of parts to keep the vehicles running. The owners of these yank tanks are sitting on a potential “gold mine” that, if the embargo were to be lifted, the Cuban people could make quick cash by selling their cars to people who collect and restore them.
On the other hand, many of these vehicles, especially those in taxi service, have been converted to accept replacement engines, usually Soviet diesel engines. Fortunately, this is a modification that gives a car a new lease on life. The practical limits of engine longevity, scarcity of replacement parts, and the high cost of fuel in post Cold War (roughly 75 U.S. cents a liter in the summer of 2002) Cuba have made diesel power (roughly 15 to 20 U.S. cents) a popular choice for engine replacement, if a suitable gasoline engine couldn’t be acquired.
However, the old American cars on the road today have “relatively high inefficiencies” due in large part to the lack of modern technology. This has resulted in increased fuel consumption as well as aiding to the economic plight of its owners. With these inefficiencies, noticeable drop in travel has occurred from an “average of nearly 3000 km/year in the mid-1980s to less than 800 km/year in 2000–2001”. As the Cuban people try to save as much money as possible, when traveling is done, the cars are usually loaded past the maximum allowable weight and travel on the decaying roads, resulting in even more abuse to the already under maintained vehicles. The extreme lack or scarcity of parts is directly a result of the Revolution and the embargo. However, there have been talks about easing some of the restriction of the embargo. Former President Clinton has pushed for U.S. citizens to be allowed to send up to $300 a month to Cuba and for “direct mail service between Cuba and the United States, suspended in 1963, to be reestablished.” This would allow for families in the U.S. to send the needed parts (assuming they can be located) to their own families in Cuba, for the necessary repairs.
Currently, it is estimated that there are some 173,000 cars in Cuba, of these it is unknown how many are yank tanks and are considered road worthy.
All our ice had melted by this morning, but the trees on the mountain were beautifully icy, and brilliantly lovely in the morning sunlight. Unfortunately, I couldn't stop to take a picture because I had to get the kids to school and then back home for a meeting.
I was back on the mountain late this afternoon, and there was still ice in the trees catching the late-afternoon sun in the most fetchingly dazzling way, but in trying to find a place off the highway to park and try to capture the magic, I got stuck behind this repair crew doing their thing - the ice really wreaked havoc on the trees and powerlines on the mountain. By the time the cherry picker came down and I could proceed, the light was gone.
I'm not super-happy with this photo - especially since it was taken through the car window (hence the monochrome processing) - but it's what I got for today.
I have great admiration for the very skilled people who repair dry stone walls, and make them as good as new. The walls are built without using mortar, in areas where large quantities of rock and stone are found above the soil, and especially where trees and hedges do not grow easily because of the climate, elevation, strong winds or thin soils. This is why dry stone walls are most prominent in northern and western Britain, and often at the higher altitudes.
Dry stone walls have been used as field boundaries in Derbyshire and northern Britain for hundreds of years.
Please, please, please do not refer to them as 'rock fences' ......which are very modern and entirely different!!
Because I repaired it! :)
Nandu Uncle's old Rolleicord
The problem was that the Aperture and shutter speed levers broke so it was close to impossible to change the settings. I removed the front cover of the lens assembly and the case it was in, thus exposing the levers of the same. I manually marked it for the aperture and shutter speed.
Its still equally lightproof.
I also tried holding its carl zeiss lens to my DSLR body, and clicked the photo on the top right corner.
The lever still gets stuck at 1/2 and 1/25, but I'm going to keep that for some other day :P
I also cleaned the mirror and the viewfinder glass inside along with the Carl Zeiss lens.
The smell of the lens cleaning fluid is damn addictive...
I thought, yellow will be too much. It will make it look cartoony. Then I thought, it's a mecha hanger, cartoony isn't a bad thing. Underground at the farm can be a busy, noisy place. The pilot gantry is extended in this shot too.
Event: Morris Minor Repairs - 07/09-05/10/24
Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Camera: Pentax ME Super
Lens(s): 28mm f/2.8
Film: Ilford Delta 400
Shot ISO: 800 (+1 stop)
Light Meter: Camera
Lighting: Various
Mounting: Hand held
Firing: Shutter button
Developer: Ilford DD-X(1+4) for 10m 30s
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)
just had to finish off 'roid week with my new favorite place on earth: the repaired deck at my lovely house
and tonight is exactly one month since my first night spent here at the house (two days after the sale finally went through), so a perfect way to celebrate!
Apparently you could get your tires repaired with hay and then striped here. Spotted on the east end of Navajo Blvd in Holbrook, AZ.
Oooh, a puncture right outside the only bike repair station on the entire 10 mile route. Spooky huh?
I carry all the tools to effect my own repairs, but the track pump integrated into the stand was jolly handy to get the pressure to 90psi.
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AEC Regal III FF-14-35 at the headquarters depot of Carris, Lisbon, with some accident damage.
Sea Gypsies don't have a proper education, but their skill especially in the boat making is undoubtedly one of the best compared to those who studied at the university, if they given the opportunity to study further maybe they can built something that we have never seen before, there are a lot of boat making service on the Island of Mabul, some built a small boat and others a little bit bigger. They built their boat through years of experience and knowledge...
the other day a strong wind broke a rib of my 15 year old folding umbrella. when i got home my wife suggested it is time to replace the umbrella. but how do you part ways with something that's been with you for so long, been to so many places here and abroad. call it sentimental but remember this is the first time it gave up on me, so i won't give up that easily. yesterday i was lucky to find this small umbrella repair shop and had it fixed for, guess what, USD1.00, the guy even scrubbed the fabric and remarked how well kept my umbrella was. good as new again! so who knows it might last another 15 years he he he
Event: Morris Minor Repairs
Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Camera: Pentax MZ-M
Lens(s): 28mm f/2.8
Film: Ilford Delta 400
Shot ISO: 800 (+1 stop)
Light Meter: Camera
Lighting: Various
Mounting: Hand held
Firing: Shutter button
Developer: Ilford DD-X(1+4) for 10m 30s
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)