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As emergencies go, this one was a lot of get up and go, but not a lot of hard work to do.
Traffic is finally creeping by, FHP handles an unrelated fender bender, and C&S towing is getting that overheated Cavalier off the road.
Baynard Bridge-Tunnel
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On the water front, near to the harbour, a preserved and interesting old garage-cum-petrol station converted from a pilchard store.
It owes its survival to an inhabitant of St Mawes, Brenda Pye, who in 1976 made it into an artists' studio. She subsequently donated it to the St. Mawes Gig Club. It now serves as the club's boathouse.
This petrol pump still stands alongside what was the garage forecourt. It harks back to a time when an attendant, usually in overalls, would appear on your arrival and top up your tank as required.
This pump hails from the 1920s and has been preserved with help from Shell Petroleum.
Also great to see the early AA sign attached to the garage's wall. Most of these signs were removed during WW2 in a bid to confuse any unwelcome visitors that might land on our shores.
C&S Towing is trying to locate FHP, a couple of heavy wreckers are looking for an overturned lumber load on the causeway, and the local Gulf is trying to find a roadside assistance customer that insists she's right in front of the south entrance.
Sometimes the hardest part is finding the job, but the only way to go is up.
1:64 Greenlight Collectibles:
International Durastar 4400 Rollback Wrecker
C&S Towing
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Freightliner M2 Refrigerated Box
7 UP
Baynard Bridge-Tunnel
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Civic Center Towing Kenworth T270 or T370 medium duty wrecker tow truck. This parade takes place each October in San Leandro, CA. Be sure to Slow Down & Move Over for all tow trucks or other emergency vehicles parked alongside the road assisting motorists.
Stagecoach have placed a further order for hybrids for Scotland although this time they will be on the Volvo chassis with Alexander Dennis bodywork and will go to East Scotland for the Tayway network.
29005 was causing a bit of bother in the evening peak on Market Street earlier in the week having come to a halt with the Stagecoach recovery van unable to get it to move again with Norscot presumably having to come in the end.
Great British Car Journey Museum
An interactive journey celebrating an era when British entrepreneurs and engineers were at the forefront of a transport revolution.
Herbert Austin and William Morris were the leaders of that revolution. They put the working population behind the wheel and gave us the freedom of mobility which we now take for granted.
This is the story of British industry which, in its heyday, was a worldwide force with products that were exported to all corners of the world. The story of a bygone era when, for half a century, British cars "ruled the road".
The journey starts in the early 1920s when the working family could only dream of owning a car and ends in the early years of the new millennium when most of Britain's great car factories fall silent.
The museum features over 140 British Classic cars, from the legendary Austin 7 to the magnificent Mini.
Many of these cars are now incredibly rare, and the museum searched for several years for superb examples to display.
Morris
Oxford
ODR 689
1958
1489cc
Automobile Association Radiator Grille Badge on a Morris Oxford
Four men repairing a car tire in a 1960s Hungarian street scene, vintage photo with an open trunk and a dog.
This classic light duty recovery truck is a 1983-1986 Chevrolet C/K Series K30 or a 1987-1988 Chevy R/V Series V30. I photographed this California style tow truck in Olympia, WA a few years ago. This repair shop is now out of business.
Truck traffic gives the wrecker a wide berth so they can get in there and get the Mack moving again.
Baynard Bridge-Tunnel
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This classic rollback recovery truck is a 1987-1991 Ford F-Super Duty. Pre-2010 35mm scan photographed by me in San Jose.
Civic Center Towing Kenworth T270 or T370 medium duty wrecker. This parade takes place each October in San Leandro, CA. Be sure to Slow Down & Move Over for all tow trucks or other emergency vehicles parked alongside the road assisting motorists.
35mm scan slightly edited. 1967-1972 Ford F-350. This beat up yet stylish old tow truck was originally purchased in San Carlos, CA. But it somehow ended up at a towing company in Cheyenne, Wyoming where I took this photo back in 2005. The rear boom sling and backup lights are missing. Circa 1980 Chevy El Camino in the background.
B & D Towing Freightliner M2 106 medium duty wrecker. This parade takes place each October in San Leandro, CA. Be sure to Slow Down & Move Over for all tow trucks or other emergency vehicles parked alongside the road assisting motorists.
It's just a minor repair; all it will take is a 45 cent part, about 3 minutes of labor, $650.00 for the service call, and she'll be good as new.
SpecCast Peterbilt 385 Heavy Wrecker
Baynard Bridge-Tunnel
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Looks like that Mack up there's got a leaky spark tube, but it shouldn't be long now before all is back to normal.
Baynard Bridge-Tunnel
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Great British Car Journey Museum
An interactive journey celebrating an era when British entrepreneurs and engineers were at the forefront of a transport revolution.
Herbert Austin and William Morris were the leaders of that revolution. They put the working population behind the wheel and gave us the freedom of mobility which we now take for granted.
This is the story of British industry which, in its heyday, was a worldwide force with products that were exported to all corners of the world. The story of a bygone era when, for half a century, British cars "ruled the road".
The journey starts in the early 1920s when the working family could only dream of owning a car and ends in the early years of the new millennium when most of Britain's great car factories fall silent.
The museum features over 140 British Classic cars, from the legendary Austin 7 to the magnificent Mini.
Many of these cars are now incredibly rare, and the museum searched for several years for superb examples to display.
Rolls-Royce
OU 2938
1929
3127cc
Automobile Association Radiator Grille Badge on a Rolls-Royce.
This car belonged to Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout movement and Chief Scout.
Baden-Powell nicknamed the car “Jam Roll” (derived from Jamboree and Rolls-Royce).
Another one of my many photos of the tow truck fleet from Palace Garage Towing Recovery. Palace has one of the largest Freeway Service Patrol contracts in Alameda County. The unique taillight arrowboards that they have on their tow trucks are visible from miles away and should be utilized on all recovery trucks.
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Duarte's Towing medium duty Kenworth flatbed & Kenworth HD wrecker. This parade takes place each October in San Leandro, CA. Be sure to Slow Down & Move Over for all tow trucks or other emergency vehicles parked alongside the road assisting motorists.
Action Towing 2011-2018 Ram 4500/5500 flatbed tow truck. This parade takes place each October in San Leandro, CA. Be sure to Slow Down & Move Over for all tow trucks or other emergency vehicles parked alongside the road assisting motorists.
Automobile Association Sign
The AA erected more than 30,000 of these village signs between 1906 and 1939. After 1939 it became the responsibility of local authorities to erect directional signs.
Most of these were removed during WW2 in a bid to confuse any unwelcome visitors that might land on our shores.
The vast majority of the signs that remain are now in private collections or museums.
Action Towing 2011-2018 Ram 4500/5500 wrecker tow truck. This parade takes place each October in San Leandro, CA. Be sure to Slow Down & Move Over for all tow trucks or other emergency vehicles parked alongside the road assisting motorists.
This one is a base model. Photographed at the annual CTTA Move Over Law awareness towing parade in San Leandro.
Code named GMT400, 1988-1998 Chevy C/K & GMC Sierra pickups (1988-2000 for 2500 HD & 3500 models - 2002 for 3500 HD's) are the best looking fullsize GM pickups of the last 30 years from a design perspective. It's amazing how much smaller, lower and spartan fullsize pickups were back in the 90's compared to the fancy & expensive models produced today. This 1994 tow truck didn't even have an airbag (driver side airbags debuted in 1995 on the C/K & Sierra). The minimalist grille & one piece optional chrome bumper of this 3500 base model are minuscule compared to the tall front ends of current trucks.
Breakdown on the road with the car. Fortunately, there is the ANWB Roadside Assistance in the Netherlands.
Pech onderweg met de auto. Gelukkig is er in Nederland de ANWB Wegenwacht.
Panne sur la route avec la voiture. Heureusement, il existe l'assistance routière ANWB aux Pays-Bas.
Panne unterwegs mit dem Auto. Glücklicherweise gibt es in den Niederlanden die Pannenhilfe ANWB.
Veteran road side assistance car from NAF, the Norwegian Automobile Association: a Volvo Duett estate car, in production between 1953 and 1969.
A heavy wrecker and a Baynard Co. highway truck are waiting for the control room to shut down traffic in the tunnel so they can cross and get to the disabled Sysco Systems double on the shoulder.
Golden Gate Bridge Patrol officer assisting motorist who's car has overheated on the south lookout point .
2016-present Ford F-650 Super Duty crewcab photographed at the CTTA Move Over Law awareness parade in San Leandro, October 2018. More photos that I took at this parade can be seen on the CTTA facebook page.
Maybe the sun got in that Studie driver's eyes, but I can't imagine that looked like a good place to flip a U.
Maybe the Shell guys would give him a discount on a tow if the El Camino can't stop in time?
City of Mystic Beach
Treasure Cove Beach Park (Treasure Cove Preserve)
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Model: Isuzu D-MAX 2.5 Crew Cab Aut. 5
VIN: MPATFS86JGT014123
1. Registration: 2017-08-29
Company: Falck (DK)
Fleet No.: 7157
Nickname: -
License plates: BK28399 (aug. 2017-?)
Previous reg.: n/a
Later reg.: n/a
Retirement age: still active may 2019
Photo location: Motorway 501 (Aarhus Syd Motorvejen), Viby J, Aarhus, DK
Falck have always been very conventional when choosing vehicles for their fleet. Well-established car makes like Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Volkswagen, Volvo, Iveco, Scania and MAN have dominated heavily, but recently a few unusual names have found their way, like this small Isuzu tow-truck (grillvogn, as it's commmonly known in danish) - it's certainly a lot smaller than previous vehicles used for this task (mainly Iveco Daily 65C)
Going up the steep hill leading sw out of Aarhus past Viby and Stautrup. Underpowered and/or heavily loaded trucks often struggle here.
Tip: to locate trucks of particular interest to you, check my collections page, "truck collection" (www.flickr.com/photos/lavulv/collections/72157684190396672/ ) - here you will find all trucks organized in albums, by haulier (with zip-codes), year, brand and country.
Retirement age for trucks: many used trucks are offered for sale on international markets. If sold to a foreign buyer, this will not be listed in the danish motor registry, so a "retired" truck may or may not have been exported. In other words, the "retirement age" only shows the age, at which the truck stopped running on danish license plates.
This classic light duty recovery truck is a 1983-1986 Chevrolet C/K Series K30 or a 1987-1988 Chevy R/V Series V30. I photographed this California style tow truck in Olympia, WA a few years ago. This repair shop is now out of business.
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This classic light duty recovery truck is a 1983-1986 Chevrolet C/K Series K30 or a 1987-1988 Chevy R/V Series V30. I photographed this California style tow truck in Olympia, WA a few years ago. This repair shop is now out of business.
Alberta, Canada-based owner-operator Don Needham and his drivers operate a fleet of five trucks — one Kenworth W900 and four Peterbilt 379s. Photo by Neil Crichton
Oxford Bus Museum & Morris Motors Museum
The museum tells the story of bus and coach travel around Oxfordshire over the last 130 years. The exhibits include a historic preserved horse-drawn tram, motor buses, coaches and a wide selection of artefacts including bus stops, ticket machines, timetables, posters and staff uniforms.
Since 2004 the museum has also been home to the Morris Motors Museum, which charts the story of how these classic British cars and commercial vehicles were produced at Cowley in Oxford.
The link between William Morris founder of Morris Motors (who later became Lord Nuffield) and buses in Oxford, can be traced to 1913 when he and a partner started the first motorbus service in the city.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Bus_Museum
Automobile Association
Radiator Grille Badge