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MTF665G was a Leyland Atlantean PDR2/1 / Park Royal H79D new to Leyland Motors in October 1968 for use as a demonstrator and it was exhibited at the 1968 Earls Court Motor Show. It was purchased by A1 Service Members T & E Docherty of Irvine in February 1971 and was withdrawn in July 1983 passing to Skelmorlie Coaches and was then purchased by Clyde Coast Services for spares in January 1989.
I'm ready to serve; are you ready for my service? If you are then be careful; my service can be either fault or ace and there's no telling what to expect.
Taken from a print in my collection, no further details known.
LNWR Coal Engine, built at Crewe entering service numbered 1085 October 1889. Renumbered 3444 June 1917. LMS 8262 August 1928. Renumbered 28262 April 1940. Withdrawn October 1948 no taking up allocated number 58353.
Photo from the Michael Riedl collection, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.
München-Riem
ca. June 1983
N790FA
Boeing 707-138B
17697 / 39
Private Jet Services
This airframe had visited Riem before as D-ADAP with Air Commerz and as TC-JBN with THY Turkish Airlines, and it was seen several times as N790FA: on 7 and 8 December 1979 with Jet Aviation, from 3 to 5 July 1980 with Private Jet Services, as well as on 4 February 1981, 5 November 1982, 11 to 12 June 1983 and 18 June 1983 with Private Jet Services.
This was the first Boeing 707 delivered to Qantas (as VH-EBB) and the first Boeing 707 to land at Honolulu and Brisbane. There’s lots of information to be found on this airframe due to its significance for Australian aviation.
Information on this airframe from flickr - thanks to Paul:
New to Qantas as VH-EBB in 1959. To Standard Airways as N790SA in 1967, Air Commerz as D-ADAP in 1971 and back to FB Ayer as N790SA in 1973. To Pan Ayer and leased to Turk Hava Yollari as TC-JBN in 1976. Back to Pan Ayer as N790FA in 1977. To Jet Aviation in 1978, Lowa Ltd in 1979, Comtran in 1986, Exec-Aire and Jetran in 1988 and Comtran in 1989. Reregistered as N138SR in 1990. Damaged beyond repair by arsonist at Port Harcourt, Nigeria in 1998.
Based on Google Earth imagery, the aircraft was present on 24DEC03 but gone by 26DEC07 (source: 707.adastron.com).
Registration details for this airframe:
rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=124357
Very detailed history of this airframe with many photos:
www.aussieairliners.org/b-707q/vh-ebb/vhebb.html
Another detailed history:
www.707.adastron.com/qantas/VH-EBB.htm
This airframe as VH-EBB with Qantas in Australia ca 1959 (before conversion to -138B with turbofan engines):
www.flickr.com/photos/nickant44/8143539882
VH-EBB with Qantas in the original 'V-Jet' livery at LHR in August 1963:
www.aussieairliners.org/b-707q/vh-ebb/4604.157l.jpg
This airframe as N790SA with Standard Airways at SYD in May 1967:
www.aussieairliners.org/b-707q/vh-ebb/4604.315l.jpg
This airframe as TC-JBN with THY at DUS ca. 1976:
www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/30713739267
This airframe as N790FA with Private Jet Servicves at LBG in June 1979:
www.flickr.com/photos/pslg05896/31363223521
N790FA with Private Jet Services at Riem in March 1983 (revised livery):
www.aussieairliners.org/b-707q/vh-ebb/4604.162l.jpg
This airframe as N138SR with Republique du Congo at LBG in May 1994:
www.aussieairliners.org/b-707q/vh-ebb/4605.354l.jpg
N138SR with Comtran International at GVA ca. 1995:
www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/48008401091
N138SR with Comtran International/Kingdom Entertainment under charter for Michael Jackson's HIStory World Tour at STN in October 1996:
www.flickr.com/photos/chrischenn76/5733909039
N138SR stored and rotting away at PHC in April 2005:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/1/1/3/0865311.jpg
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
Operated by: Republic Services, Inver Grove Heights, MN
Unit Number: 3495
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Chassis: Mack Granite
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A1 Service Damiler Fleetline OAG 758L picks up on a wet day at Saltcoats Station in October 1984.
OAG 758L was new to A1 member Meney of Ardrossan in May 1973 and was one of 7 Alexander AL type bodied buses - 4 Fleetlines and 3 Atlanteans. to join the fleet that year
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a little disappointed with the clarity...was in a rush on the way to work this morning...beautiful frosty, foggy morning
22nd May 2005. Class 24 D5054 visiting from the East Lancs Railway passes class 104 unit at Consall on the Churnett valley Railway
"Welcome to the who-shot-first hotline my name is Greedo how may I help you?"
Poor Greedo!
A long time ago in a toy box far, far away....
Preserved RL 681 is a RELL6G delivered new to Eastern Counties in July 1968 with whom it ran until September 1987. From there it passed through the hands of many operators before finally being retired from service with Busways Travel Services in Newcastle in January 1997. Now preserved in Hampshire, RAH 681F is seen here in the small Village of Binsted, near Alton having dropped off at the Cedars Public House during the 2016 Alton Classic Bus & Country pub running day on Saturday 16th July.
With one of future sources of energy in the background 66783 approaches Althorpe station working the 4R79 1005 Doncaster - Immingham HIT empty coal HTA's .
Wind power doesn't seem to have been doing to well of late with Ratcliffe PS still taking coal in July , with attention switched this week to West Burton PS shortly to close and widely regarded to have taken its last coal some time ago .
This week a Monday - Friday Immingham HIT - West Burton diagram is in RTT with the added bonus that it travels via the little used South Yorkshire Joint .
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OSJ36X was one of a pair of Leyland Tiger TRBTL11/2R / Wadham Stringer DP49F new to A1 Service member James McKinnon Jnr in 1982. This view was taken at Parkhouse Road stance in Ardrossan. The shade of blue used on these buses never seemed right and certainly wasn't A1 Blue. Stagecoach took over A1 Service in January 1995 and at that time the fleet comprised of 97 vehicles owned by 10 members.
For many years, there was a National Express service along the coast from Sussex to Cornwall. On 19th December, 1995, Western National Volvo B10M-61 Van Hool Alizee 2510 (D510 HHW) - new to Badgerline - was loading in Brighton Pool Valley for its long trip west.
Vintage postcard of the Peace Cross at Bladensburg, Maryland, built in 1925 and dedicated to Prince George's County service members who died in World War I. The monument was rededicated yesterday.
46100 Royal Scot returns mainline steam to Wiltshire passing through Trowbridge en route to Kingswear
The Military Service Tree on the campus of Columbia College in Columbia Missouri by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Sony ILCE-7RM3 camera with a Canon TS-E24mm f/3.5L II lens at ƒ/5.6 with a 1/4 second exposure at ISO 2000. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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FORTON MOTORWAY SERVICES, M6 NORTH. NR LANCASTER. The former Pennine Tower Restaurant on the north-bound side of Forton Service Area (now known as Lancaster Service Area) is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: motorway service stations were a new post-war building type dependant upon the development of Great Britain's motorway network commencing in the late 1950s, with Forton an early example and one of the most striking, being distinguished by its unique landmark 22 m tower with cantilevered restaurant and sun deck; * Innovation: Forton demonstrated a new popularist architecture ideally suited to the democratic new aesthetic of the motorway, the Pennine Tower Restaurant acting both as a beacon to attract the passing motorists and as a glamorous vantage point from which they were able to enjoy spectacular prospects of the motorway below and more extensively over the miles of surrounding countryside through which they passing; * Architectural interest: the significant component of the service station complex is the hexagonal Pennine Tower Restaurant which is reminiscent in form to an airport control tower, evoking the modern glamour of 1960s air travel and also drawing on the progressive urban movement of this period of constructing towers with restaurants and observation platforms; * Architect: TP Bennett & Sons was a well-regarded architects' practice established in the inter-war period when they developed an expertise in cinema and theatre architecture such as the former Saville Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue, London (Grade II), continuing their dramatic emphasis in the post-war period with such notable buildings as the eye-catching, modernist Smithfield Poultry Market of 1961-3 (Grade II); * Selectivity: the special interest is confined to the former Pennine Tower Restaurant, excluding the lower-level buildings, which have been compromised by later extensions and alterations, and the footbridge, which, whilst being an integral element, is not technologically innovative.
History
Post-war reconstruction and decentralisation in Great Britain in the 1950s increased the need for new fast freight and passenger links. Motor transport was favoured, and in the late 1950s and early 1960s an arterial network of motorways began to be developed. The first motorway to be built in Britain was the eight-mile Preston by-pass (subsequently part of the M6), which opened in December 1958; a 75-mile section of the M1 followed in 1959.
Service stations were necessary for the rest and refuelling of both vehicles and passengers, but their comprehensively planned facilities were also a direct expression of the perceived significance of motorways, identified by Harold Macmillan upon the opening of Preston By-pass, as a key symbol of Britain's technological, cultural, and economic progress. Prior to their development, travellers' needs had been catered for by inter-war roadhouses, aimed squarely at middle class motorists who drove as a pastime and saw them as destinations, with separate transport cafes serving freight hauliers, and also tea rooms catering for car drivers. None really comprehensively fulfilled the diverse needs of motorway travellers. Practical examples of a new approach came from abroad, particularly the private service areas built on the Italian autostrade and American tollways and turnpikes. These services, planned for 24-hour operation offering a range of catering, lobbies with gift shops, telephones and lavatories, fuel and vehicle repairs. The first motorway service area in Britain was opened in 1959 by Blue Boar (Motorways) Ltd at Watford Gap on the M1. Other companies then became involved in the motorway trade as the network expanded across the country. One of the operators was Top Rank Motor Inns, an off-shoot of the film and dance hall company. They opened Farthing Corner (now Medway) on the M2 and Knutsford on the M6 in 1963, Forton (now Lancaster) on the M6 in 1965, Aust on the M4 (now Severn View, M48) in 1966, and Hilton Park (now Birmingham North) also on the M6 in 1967.
Forton Services was designed by the London-based architects' practice T P Bennett & Sons. The practice had evolved during the 1920s building apartment blocks in the west end of London before expanding to design commercial ventures including theatres and cinemas; their inter-war former Saville Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London is designated at Grade II. During the post-war period the practice diversified, designing Smithfield Poultry Market, London, in 1961 (Grade II). They also became involved in motorway architecture at an early stage, designing Strensham Services (since rebuilt) on the M5 in 1962 for the Kenning Motor Group. Subsequently they designed Forton, opened in 1965, Hilton Park, opened in 1967, and Anderton (now Bolton West), opened in 1971. The architect in charge of Forton was Bill Galloway, and Ray Anderson was the job architect. Top Rank left both the development of the brief and the detail of the design up to the architects.
The village of Forton lies seven miles south of Lancaster, virtually halfway between London and Edinburgh, presenting the opportunity to build a half-way house for those using the new M6. In addition, the Ministry of Transport policy was to site service areas 'in places where the motorway passed through pleasant rural scenery, so that their potential users might find them attractive and restful', and Forton was well situated for views: to the Lake District to the north, the Pennines to the east, and Morecambe Bay and Blackpool to the west and south. The Ministry also imagined that service areas would be clean and functional, serving the needs of the through-passing traveller, and it is now express government policy that motorway service areas should be there to serve the travelling public and not as destinations, or have uses, such as gyms, cinemas, or swimming pools, which would make them a destination. However, when first built, the spectacle of modernity and twenty four hour opening imbued a glamour which inevitably proved a draw to locals from the nearby towns of Lancaster, Preston, and Blackpool. This was not a phenomenon which was to last.
The architects designed the site on the 'railway station' principle with facilities provided on either side of the motorway linked by a footbridge. This was the earliest form of motorway service station in England, as employed at Watford Gap (1959), though here they played to the strengths of the location by also building a 20m (65ft) high tower resembling an airport control tower on the north-bound side. Travellers could enjoy a waitress-served meal in the Pennine Tower Restaurant (with 120 covers) whilst taking in the novel experience of cars speeding past at seventy miles an hour and overlooking the beautiful landscape in which the service area was set (it had been intended to build the tower 30.5m (100ft) high but was reduced in height at the behest of the local authority planners). Above the restaurant was an open sun-deck or observation floor. Self-service cafeterias and transport cafés for the hauliers were also provided in one and two-storey buildings on both sides of the motorway. The footbridge was designed by the Lancashire County Engineering Department, and clad by the architects.
Work was carried out on the lower level buildings in 1988-9 by Northern Building Design Associates. Subsequent work, most recently in 2007, was undertaken by KMB Associates. Within the northbound building the main staircase has been replaced by a realigned flight and the hexagonal stair up to the first-floor cafeteria was floored over. A recent extension on the ground floor encompasses the originally engaged shaft of the tower, and replaces the original main entrance doorway from the car park. There has also been a degree of reconfiguration, with the ground-floor lavatories moved up to the first floor to make way for shops, arcades, and a coffee shop. All finishes are of recent origin. There is no longer a separate transport café for hauliers and the tower restaurant was closed in 1989, partly as a result of the cost of meeting current fire escape regulations. The southbound side has been significantly altered and extended.
Forton Service Area is now known as Lancaster Service Area.
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A service I'd yet to cover since it's arrival in September is the '5k' variant of the overhauled service 5 cross-city circular.
Service 5k is a Monday-Saturday only three journey service in one direction from Hull Interchange heading eastbound and following the usual 5 all the way until ASDA Kingswood, where it'll terminate.
The journeys run as: one in the peak circa 5:30pm, and the final two runs of the evening circa 10:50pm and 11:20pm.
Seen here just coming onto Bellfield Avenue is former Manchester Enviro 400, 19060.
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Direct Rail Services Class 37/0 37229 'Jonty Jarvis 8-12-1998 to 18-3-2005' diesel-electric locomotive approaches Caldew Junction at Willowholme in Carlisle on the west coast main line with 6C42 the 13:38 BNFL Sellafield to Kingmoor depot nitric acid and Caustic Soda tank train.
A flying visit to Market Harborough allowed just enough time to grab some shots of the local bus scene on a bright winter's day in February 2016.
Arriva 4205 (FJ08LVR) is a Wright-bodied Volvo B9TL seen on the Sapphire branded X3 service to Leicester which has a half-hourly frequency and takes 70mins to complete.
Operated by: Republic Services Inc. Inver Grove Heights, MN
Unit Number: 1221
Body: McNeilus
Chassis: Mack MRU
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Seen servicing a recycle dumpster at a retirement home on West 7th in Saint Paul
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In March 1943, about 1,000 international people living in Shanghai were interned in Chapei Civil Assembly Centre by the Japanese. As the war progressed, food rations became smaller and less varied. Many people living in the camp were helped by people living in Shanghai from countries which were neutral during WWII, like Sweden. Also Chinese employees from foreign companies sent their former colleagues food.
This photo shows a label of such a food aid package, sent by the Swedish family Asker, to the Dutch family Hennus. Mr. C.G.C. Asker worked for the Maritime Customs Service of China (as per Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China 1854 –1949 Part Three: Semi-Official Correspondence from Selected Ports by Professor Robert Bickers, University of Bristol).
The text reads:
"DONOR: Mr C G C Asker, Swedish ...
1300 Rue Lafayette
CONTENTS:
Milk powder, 12 ozs
Jam, 1 tin 12 ozs
Sugar, 2 lbs
Margarine 1 lb
Peanuts 2 lbs
Tomato sauce, 1 bot
Cocao cubes 1 pkt
Fruit drops, 3 pkt
BENEFICIARY:
Master M F Hennus, Netherlands, C.829
CHAPEI CIVIL ASSEMBLY CENTRE
4th Febr. 1944"
Chapei Civil Assembly Centre was liberated on 15 August 1945, 76 years ago today.
California Digital Newspaper Collection, Vestkusten, Number 39, 28 September 1944:
"SWEDEN PRAISED FOR ASSISTANCE IN BRINGING AID TO WAR PRISONERS. By Dr. I). A. Davis, Associate Executive Director, Y. M. C. A. Worlds Committee,
Sweden and Switzerland, spared the horrors of warfare, are doing their share to lighten the burden of war victims. These two neutral countries are cooperating with the War Prisoners Aid of the Y. M. C. A., with headquarters in Geneva and New York, in sending material aid to war prisoners and civilian internees in Europe and the Far East. The rights and privileges of more than 6,000,000 prisoners of war confined behind barbed wire throughout the world are protected by the treaty called “The Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War,” signed by 47 nations on July 27, 1920. Among other things the Geneva Convention specifies that various welfare organizations may have access to war prison camps to render certain services to prisoners; thus War Prisoners Aid, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. World’s Committee carries on its stimulating programs of educational, recreational and religious activities among war prisoners, regardless of race, creed or nationality. The role that Sweden plays in this important services are manifold, for giving financial support as well as supplying materials for leisure-time activities. They provide also a large percentage of the personell necessary. From Sweden comes books, writing materials, lumber and other materials hardly found now in other european countries and piany of the neutral secretaries are permitted to visit war prison and internment camps. “We sail never forget what your Swedish colleague, Hoffman, did for us in England,” said a German prisoner of war to Gunnar Celander, Swedish representative of War Prisoners Aid, during a recent prisoner of war exchange between Germany and England, through Sweden. Boatloads of German prisoners from Canada, U. S. and .England, and British prisoners from Germany, docked at Trelleborg and Goteborg, while they transferred to boats waiting to take them home.
The Swedish Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross Lottas, Swedish rail roads and welfare organizations assumed a large portion of the responsibility of looking after these men— most of whom were invalided and blind during their short stay in the country. Food, travel facilities, reading matter, games, gramophones supplied with records of German and British music were made available to make the men comfortable. Crown princess Louise visited the prisoners, with representatives of the Swedish government, who officially welcomed them. Mr. Celander reported “We Swedes are happy that it was the privilege of our country to arrange this exchange of prisoners in the spirit of conciliation and kindness in the midst of the fire of conflict. I longed to share with the entire Y. M. C. A. and its secretaries the memory of the happy faces these homeward-bound prisoners and their many proofs of gratitude. All these men can testify that we were able to serve them in of their liberation. That is the highest reward and greatest encouragement for our work.” In Stockholm a War Prisoners Aid office is under the able leader their capacity as well as in' these days ship of Hugo Cedergren, Associate Director of Y. M. C. A., and National Secretary of the Swedish Y. M. C. A. Mr. Cedergren, who has visited prisoners in Europe, U. S. and Canada, said recently in America: “The spirit of prisoners is excellent. I can say that honestly from my own experience. The treatment they are receiving is correct and good.” Mrs Ceder gren is the daughter of Prince Oscar Bernadotte, brother of King Gustaf. He is honorary president of the Swedish Y. M. C. A. Pastor Carl-Erik Wenngren of the Stockholm Diocese, Associated National .Secretary of the Swedish Y. M. C. A., is now in U. S. as a neutral representative of the Ecumenical Commission for Chaplaincy Service to prisoners of war, of the World Council of Churches, and as a representative of War Prisoners Aid of the Y. M. C. A. He is visiting camps throughout America carrying the message of the church, especially to German prisoners, conducting services and other functions of a minister. Gunnar Celander, Henry Soderberg, Gunnar Janssen, O, M. Carlman and Erik Berg have been recruited from Sweden to visit war prison camps in Germany, while Bengt Hoffman carries War Prisoners Aid service to allied fliers detained in Sweden in compliance with neutrality laws. Civilan internment camps in France ares visited by mr. and Mrs. Hemming Andermo. The Swedish representative in India is Fredrik Franklin. (In the Philippine Islands, aid to prisoners of war and civilian internees is carried on under a neutral committee of Swiss, Irish, Danish, French, Belgian and Norwegian citizens, headed by Swedish Ex-Consul Helge A. Jansson, in Manila, and appointed by W. J. K. Bagge, Swedish Minister to Japan, since July 1942, chairman of neutral citizens, responsible for Y. M. C. A. services to prisoners and internees in Japan and Japanese-controlled areas. All contact between War Prisoners Aid and Japanese government are made through Stockholm. Through Minister Bagge, War Prisoners’ Aid received the first complete information about aid work in the Philippines. Final permission was given by the Japanese for the YMCA to purchase monthly in the Philippines sorely needed relief supplies for shipment to camps there in which Allied prisoners are interned. War Prisoners’ Aid service to allied war prisoners and civilian internees in Japan and Japan-held territory other than the Philippines is headed by I. P. Troedsson, Swedish Consul to Japan, assisted by N. E. Ericson of the Swedish Legation in Tokyo, under supervision of Minister Bagge. Swedish representatives of War Prisoners’ Aid make regular visits to camps in Japan are B. Gawell, John Anderson, A. Swensson and O. Pettersson, C. G. C. Asker works in Shanghai, and in Thailand, War Prisoners’ Aid service is carried to prisoners of war by F. Ehnstedt, Swedish Consul there. N. Arne Bendtz, with headquarters in Chungking, is in charge of War Prisoners Aid Services in Free China. He was responsible for taking aid not long ago to the more than two hundred German and Italian Catholic Fathers who had been interned for more than a year in the Honan Province. Traveling hundreds of miles over famine-stricken war-ridden country by car, rickshaw and on foot, climbing bleak, rugged hills, fording gushing streams, enduring scorching heat, mud and a plague of locusts, Bendtz finally reached his destination and found that the missionaries were living in dilapidated buildings, lacked essential food and clothing and faced grave financial difficulties. “For about three weeks I lived among these Catholic missionaries sharing their daily life, which I shall never forget,” wrote Bendtz in his report to Geneva. “They had suffered a lot during the past year and we came, as one said, “like an angel from Heaven, to soothe and comfort their sorrowful hearts.” “They had not met another foreigner since internment, and the concerts and speeches made in honor of the War Prisoners’ Aid representative were visible tokens of their gratitude.” Solutions to many problems facing War Prisofters’ Aid of the YMCA, a participating agency of the National War Fund, in its service to prisoners and civilian internees in Europe and the Far East, are greatly facilitated by the cooperation of Sweden.
Swedish representative of Y. M. C. A. War Prisoners’ Aid, Henry Soderberg (center), talks with prisoner and German camp official in war prison camp somewhere in Germany."
Courtesy Hennus family archives