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The British Red Cross has worked with the communities in Haiti to identify environmental hazards, and funded infrastructure projects to help protect against future disasters. These projects include erosion and flood control, household water filters, sanitation education, and water source protection projects – such as this one in Chardonnieres, South Department.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,731,571 in 2016, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,245,438 people (as of 2016) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) proper had a 2016 population of 6,417,516. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
People have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by American troops. York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto. It was designated as the capital of the province of Ontario in 1867 during Canadian Confederation. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through both annexation and amalgamation to its current area of 630.2 km2 (243.3 sq mi).
The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. More than 50 percent of residents belong to a visible minority population group, and over 200 distinct ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, over 160 languages are spoken in the city.
Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Its varied cultural institutions, which include numerous museums and galleries, festivals and public events, entertainment districts, national historic sites, and sports activities, attract over 43 million tourists each year. Toronto is known for its many skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, the CN Tower.
The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations. Its economy is highly diversified with strengths in technology, design, financial services, life sciences, education, arts, fashion, aerospace, environmental innovation, food services, and tourism.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_Park
Ireland Park is located on the shores of Lake Ontario on Éireann Quay, adjoining the Canada Malting Silos, at the foot of Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Officially opened in the summer of 2007, Ireland Park commemorates the tens of thousands who fled Ireland during the Great Famine. In 1847 over 38,000 Irish men, women and children landed on the shores of Toronto, where Ireland Park now stands, fleeing famine and eager to start a new life. Although Toronto only had 20,000 inhabitants, the city welcomed the newcomers with open arms. Over 1,100 new immigrants did not survive to make Canada their new home, with many perishing in fever sheds during the Typhus epidemic of 1847. Ireland Park is a tribute to all the Irish ancestors who came with only hope, for a new life in a promising country.
The park was designed to be an emotional and evocative place calling up long-lost memories of destitute ancestors who arrived from blight ravaged Ireland on our Canadian shore with hopes for a new life in a new land. The park was designed by Toronto Architect Jonathan Kearns, who is an Irish immigrant himself. The park features oak trees, a cylinder of stacked glass that serves as a beacon of hope and five bronze sculptures created by renowned Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie. The sculptures mirror a similar Famine Memorial in Dublin at the Custom House Quays. The figures in Dublin represent The Departure with Toronto's sculptures being The Arrival. The Hamilton Spectator described the work as follows:
"The early immigrants are now honoured at the Toronto waterfront park by five haunting bronze statues created by Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie...One figure depicts a man lying on the ground, emaciated; another shows a pregnant woman clutching her bulging stomach, while behind her a meek child stands wide-eyed. One frail figure is bent over with hands clasped in prayer, contrasted by a man whose arms are extended to the sky in salvation."
The park also features an imposing wall made exclusively of limestone imported from Kilkenny with has the names of those who died in 1847. The wall includes many of Toronto's citizens who gave their life to the Irish cause, including Bishop Michael Power.
The park was officially opened during a ceremony on June 21, 2007, which featured the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Toronto Mayor David Miller, and the Chairman of the Ireland Park Foundation, Robert Kearns. Mary McAleese described the park as "a memorial that links Ireland and Canada in a very, very powerful way, and brings that story right into the 21st century."
In 2009, a film entitled Death or Canada features Ireland Park and the dark story of 1847 and how it impacted the young city of Toronto. The Chairman of Ireland Park, Robert Kearns, is a featured contributor.
Misha Schmidt, David Sabee, Laurie DeLuca and conductor Robert Tucker in "Open Source" by Michael Beil. Seattle Chamber Players, "Icebreaker VII: Open Source" contemporary music festival. Seattle, Feb. 2014.
SOURCE: Vogue Italia March 1999. SERIAL: # 03, Whole #583 suppliment. TITLE: Pret a Porter. PHOTO: Steven Meisel. MODEL: Malgosia Bela, Maggie Rizer. DESCRIPTION: Cover. ISSN: 00042-8027
Life and work according to ideas from the development of open source software: Vision of a sustainable future, nightmare scenario of total transparency or something that’s long been common practice? At the Open Source Life symposium experiences with projects and initiatives, activism on behalf of freedom online and critical analysis of concepts around “openness” meet. Can Open-Source-Mindsets of the individual and Open-Source-Structures in societies and economies act as agents of positive change?
Photo showing (from left to right): Andreas Hisch (AT) and Maxwell Salzberg (US).
credit: rubra
Source: Comics; Photo by Branko Collin. Taken on June 6, 2010, and shared at flickr.com/photos/24oranges under CC BY-SA 2.0.
De de-minimis problematiek op Wikimedia Commons
Op 6 juni 2010, zo'n twaalf jaar geleden, heeft de Amsterdamse freelance webontwerper Branko Collin een foto gedeeld van een stand met stripboeken op de Haarlemse Stripdagen. In die stand waren ook enkele posters opgehangen, er was nog een stapeltje stripboeken uitgestald, en zelfs een prent.
In Nederland mag je zo'n foto maken en ook delen op basis van het citaatrecht in een "aankondiging, beoordeling, polemiek of wetenschappelijke verhandeling of voor een uiting met een vergelijkbaar doel." Op de fotostream van Collin zelf valt terug te vinden, dat deze foto deel uitmaakt van een serie van zo'n 20 foto's; een documentaire zogezegd. Op de website van 24oranges.nl had hij hierover ook een blog geschreven. [1]
Aan de voorwaarden van het citaatrecht is in de blog zeker voldaan. Bij de fotostream zelf weet ik het niet. Zelf tracht ik dat tegenwoordig te voorkomen, maar ik loop helaas zelf wat achter de feiten aan. Indien ik zelf zo'n foto opneem, heeft dat veelal een reden, en die probeer ik daarbij dan ook vroeg of laat te vermelden. M'n Flickr Photostream is zodoende hier en daar een blog geworden.
Terug naar de foto's van de Haarlemse stripdagen. Deze serie van 20 foto's heb ik een tijdje terug overgenomen op Wikimedia Commons met de intentie deze toe te voegen aan de blijvende overlevering aldaar. Dat gaat een hele tijd goed tot je als donderslag bij heldere hemel geconfronteerd wordt met een copyrightschending aanklacht. De argumentatie daarbij was ook nog eens, dat de nominator eigenlijk niet wist of dat wel kan.
Zo'n nominatie blijft een soort doldwaze toestand, want ze hebben daar geen intern loket om advies te vragen. Er wordt geen voorbespreking gehouden of een advies ingewonnen. Gewoon knal... je beschuldigd iemand van copyrightschending, terwijl je helemaal niet weet of dat nu wel of niet het geval is, en dan mag die ander het maar uitzoeken. Zowel de nominator als de beklaagde zijn niet te benijden.
Ieder die dit een keer heeft meegemaakt heeft, laat dat zich geen tweede keer gebeuren. De foto's die je daarvoor hebt gedeeld onder een CC licentie, dat doe je niet meer. Zo is een initiatief als Wikipedia er debit aan, dat CC bereidwilligen zich terugtrekken. Deze ontwikkeling is al jaren gaande en zou voor Wikipedia zelf verontrustend moet zijn.
De hele ironie van de situatie is, dat ik het zelf met bijna 18 jaar ervaring ook nog steeds niet exact weet. Het is namelijk een hele ondoorgrondelijke problematiek. In Nederland zelf is het duidelijk, dat zoiets op basis van het citaatrecht wel mag in een aankondiging of beoordeling of vergelijkbaar. Zo'n overlevering valt in dat rijtje, dus dan zou het goed moeten zijn.
Maar nu is het geval, dat enkelen aldaar willen, dat die foto's ook voor commercieel hergebruik beschikbaar staat. En omdat dat dus niet mag volgens het citaatrecht, is het ineens mogelijk een copyrightschending. Een sjabloon toevoegen aldaar, dat dat niet de bedoeling is... daarin wordt niet voorzien. Dat is uit den boze.
Als je op Wikipedia en Wikimedia Commons actief wil blijven moet je het maar voor lief nemen, dat je ieder keer zo'n blikseminslag voor je kiezen krijgt. Na al die jaren ben ik daar nog steeds niet aan gewend. Menige avond zou ik het liefst de handdoek in de ring gooien, maar de volgende dag bedenk je toch weer dat het toch ergens goed voor is.
De hele rechtsgang is hier omgedraaid. Je bent schuldig totdat je ieder hebt overtuigd van je onschuld. Van deelnemers wordt er expliciet verwacht dat je zorgvuldig te werk gaat, en het benodigde vooronderzoek doet voor je werk upload. In dit geval bestond mijn vooronderzoek eruit dat je kijkt naar of het werk rechtmatig is gepubliceerd. In dit geval was er een vrijgave op Flickr en de publicatie op 24.oranges.
Je mag daar toch verwachten, dat de mensen in de stripwereld dit vroeg of laat ook meekrijgen. Een verantwoordelijkheid van elke uitgever is om dat wat in de gaten te houden. Dit hoeft niet eens bij de bron. Het kan ook zo zijn dat een commerciële partij er daadwerkelijk mee aan de slag gaat. Dan kunnen ze daar de commerciële partij op aanspreken en het alsnog herleiden naar de bron, en aangegeven dat dat niet de bedoeling is.
Dat is de normale rechtsgang, die in het belang van het dienen de commerciële partij ook weer is omgedraaid... waar wederom in het belang van de commerciële partij geen voorzieningen worden getroffen. Het is om doldwaas van te worden. De voorzieningen zijn er aldaar om het tijdelijk te blurren, en na zo veel tijd toch weer te laten zien. De hele copyrightaanklacht kan er dus zo vervangen worden door een blur-verzoek... maar zover zijn ze daar nog steeds niet.
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[1] www.24oranges.nl/2010/06/07/stripdagen-haarlem-2010/ Stripdagen Haarlem 2010 door Branko Collin, 07.06.2020 op 24oranges.nl
[2] commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File...
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Pointe Source d'Argent, La Digue Island, Seychelles
Huge glacial boulders line the beach at Pointe Source d'Argent, La Digue Island, Seychelles, making this tropical paradise look other-worldly.
(photo by Doug Herbst, reduced from original)
Source: UCL Institute of Archaeology Collections, Air Survey Photographs Box: 251 (UCL0093564); Item: AP628
Type: Glass Plate (Gelatin Dry Plate Neg(?))
Date:
Container information: 39 ? Mosul Mosaic 628; 6.V.148
Photograph text: ; AP 628
Creator: Royal Air Force
Collection: Likely part of the original deposit of aerial photographs collected by O.G.S. Crawford in cooperation with Royal Air Force
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Source: Scan of the Great Western Railway Magazine.
Ref: Vol.XXVII (No.8) : August 1915, p.207.
Copyright: GWR-BRWR-Crown.
Repository: Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
The Catalyst Open Source Academy 2018 took place at Catalyst IT in Wellington, New Zealand, from 8 to 19 January 2018.
catalyst.net.nz/open-source-academy
On Day 4 the students learned about Git, testing, CSS and Javascript.
Fermilab Antiproton Source
The antiproton is the antiparticle of the proton. Antiprotons are stable, but they are typically short-lived since any collision with a proton will cause both particles to be annihilated in a burst of energy.
The existence of the antiproton with −1 electric charge, opposite to the +1 electric charge of the proton, was predicted by Paul Dirac in his 1933 Nobel Prize lecture. Dirac received the Nobel Prize for his previous 1928 publication of his Dirac Equation that predicted the existence of positive and negative solutions to the Energy Equation (E = mc^2) of Einstein and the existence of the positron, the antimatter analog to the electron, with positive charge and opposite spin.
The antiproton was experimentally confirmed in 1955 by University of California, Berkeley physicists Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain, for which they were awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics. An antiproton consists of two up antiquark and one down antiquark (uud). The properties of the antiproton that have been measured all match the corresponding properties of the proton, with the exception that the antiproton has opposite electric charge and magnetic moment than the proton. The question of how matter is different from antimatter remains an open problem, in order to explain how our universe survived the Big Bang and why so little antimatter exists today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiproton
Fermilab Antiproton Source Department
Picture taken by Michael Kappel at Fermilab
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Picture (including Zoe on paper) of the Wellington East Girls' College students with mentor Aleisha who is a WEGC alumna.
Fermilab Antiproton Source
The antiproton is the antiparticle of the proton. Antiprotons are stable, but they are typically short-lived since any collision with a proton will cause both particles to be annihilated in a burst of energy.
The existence of the antiproton with −1 electric charge, opposite to the +1 electric charge of the proton, was predicted by Paul Dirac in his 1933 Nobel Prize lecture. Dirac received the Nobel Prize for his previous 1928 publication of his Dirac Equation that predicted the existence of positive and negative solutions to the Energy Equation (E = mc^2) of Einstein and the existence of the positron, the antimatter analog to the electron, with positive charge and opposite spin.
The antiproton was experimentally confirmed in 1955 by University of California, Berkeley physicists Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain, for which they were awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics. An antiproton consists of two up antiquark and one down antiquark (uud). The properties of the antiproton that have been measured all match the corresponding properties of the proton, with the exception that the antiproton has opposite electric charge and magnetic moment than the proton. The question of how matter is different from antimatter remains an open problem, in order to explain how our universe survived the Big Bang and why so little antimatter exists today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiproton
Fermilab Antiproton Source Department
Picture taken by Michael Kappel at Fermilab
View the high resolution image on my photo website
Source: Scan of an original photograph in our image collection.
Image: P32243.
Date: 1954.
Repository: Local Studies, Swindon Central Library.
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Lisa Strausfeld and James Nick Sears designed the illustrations for the cover story of the 3 December issue of The New York Times Magazine. The piece, titled "Open-Source Spying" is about whether blogs and wikis could be used by agencies like the C.I.A. and F.B.I. to combat terrorism. The visualizations create a three-dimensional space in which the physical relationship of actors, weapons and targets suggest their level of connection in an attack. An explanation about the visualizations, reprinted from the magazine:"A number of times each year, we find that our cover article is better suited to illustration than to photography (...) it could be that the substance of the reporting doesn't ultimately exist in the corporeal world - which is the case this week, with Clive Thompson's article on the intelligence community's quest to better utilize the tools of digital technology. Thompson, a contributing writer, reports regularly on high-tech matters. Lisa Strausfeld, who with James Nick Sears created the cover illustration and those accompanying Thompson's article, is a partner at the Pentagram design studio, where she heads a team specializing in digital-information projects ranging from software prototypes to computer-generated visualizations of the kind they created for us. Drawing on information maintained on a large counterterrorism database, the team created a pictorial equation in which terms that showed up most frequently in word searches interacted with one another. The resulting patterns are quite revealing, and quite beautiful."
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Source: Scan of a photograph.
Image: P...
Date: 30th March 1965.
Copyright: © 1965 SBC.
Repository: Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the third-most-populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second-most-populous county in the US, with a small portion of the northwest side of the city extending into DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland. At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third most populous in the United States.
Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the great fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.
Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone. Depending on the particular year, the city's O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked as the world's fifth or sixth busiest airport according to tracked data by the Airports Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. In addition, the city has one of the world's most diversified and balanced economies, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. Chicago is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Allstate, Boeing, Caterpillar, Exelon, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Sears, United Airlines Holdings, and Walgreens.
Chicago's 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018 made it the second most visited city in the nation, as compared with New York City's 65 million visitors in 2018. The city was ranked first in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities. Landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park, the Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, literature, film, theatre, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic dance music including house music. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are classified as "highest research" doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Institute_of_Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 and located in Chicago's Grant Park, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 million people annually. Its collection, stewarded by 11 curatorial departments, is encyclopedic, and includes iconic works such as Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist, Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, and Grant Wood's American Gothic. Its permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art is augmented by more than 30 special exhibitions mounted yearly that illuminate aspects of the collection and present cutting-edge curatorial and scientific research.
As a research institution, the Art Institute also has a conservation and conservation science department, five conservation laboratories, and one of the largest art history and architecture libraries in the country—the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries.
The growth of the collection has warranted several additions to the museum's 1893 building, which was constructed for the World's Columbian Exposition. The most recent expansion, the Modern Wing designed by Renzo Piano, opened in 2009 and increased the museum's footprint to nearly one million square feet, making it the second-largest art museum in the United States, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Art Institute is associated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a leading art school, making it one of the few remaining unified arts institutions in the United States.
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/9002
This photograph is from an album created by Lt Thomas Gerald George Fahey who served in the Australian Light Horse in the Middle East during World War 1. Our thanks to Mr Tom Robinson for allowing us to scan and upload this photograph.
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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothenburg
Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborg) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has a population of approximately 570,000 in the city proper and about 1 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area.
Gothenburg was founded as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony, by royal charter in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus. In addition to the generous privileges (e.g. tax relaxation) given to his Dutch allies from the then-ongoing Thirty Years' War, the king also attracted significant numbers of his German and Scottish allies to populate his only town on the western coast. At a key strategic location at the mouth of the Göta älv, where Scandinavia's largest drainage basin enters the sea, the Port of Gothenburg is now the largest port in the Nordic countries.
Gothenburg is home to many students, as the city includes the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. Volvo was founded in Gothenburg in 1927. The original parent Volvo Group and the now separate Volvo Car Corporation are still headquartered on the island of Hisingen in the city. Other key companies are SKF and Astra Zeneca.
Gothenburg is served by Göteborg Landvetter Airport 30 km (19 mi) southeast of the city center. The smaller Göteborg City Airport, 15 km (9.3 mi) from the city center, was closed to regular airline traffic in 2015.
The city hosts the Gothia Cup, the world's largest youth football tournament, and the Göteborg Basketball Festival, Europe's largest youth basketball tournament, alongside some of the largest annual events in Scandinavia. The Gothenburg Film Festival, held in January since 1979, is the leading Scandinavian film festival with over 155,000 visitors each year. In summer, a wide variety of music festivals are held in the city, including the popular Way Out West Festival.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Museum
The Volvo Museum is in Gothenburg, Sweden. It covers the development of Sweden's leading vehicle manufacturer Volvo, from the first ÖV 4 to the current cars, trucks, buses and other products. The museum also has displays of Volvo Aero and Volvo Penta products, and many other exhibits, including the joint desk of Assar Gabrielsson and Gustaf Larson from the pioneering years of the company.
Source: sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_museum
The Volvo Museum was inaugurated in 1995 and operated jointly by AB Volvo and Volvo Cars . The museum has been continuously expanded and now comprises approximately 8,000 square meters. About a hundred vehicles are on display.
The museum is constructed in chronological order and begins with an exhibition on Volvo's founding in the 1920s. Here is Volvo's first car model; Volvo ÖV4 from 1927, a PV4 from 1929 as well as a bus and a truck from 1928. In the same room there is an exhibition showing Volvo today. An escalator leads up to the upper floor where from the 1930s to the 1990s you follow the company's development. On the second floor there is also a large area for special exhibitions based on different themes.
Then follows the exhibition of race cars and prototypes. Among the prototypes are 1950s Volvo Philip with V8 engine and Volvo VCC . Among the cars here is Gunnar Engellau's service car Volvo P1800 . On the ground floor, Volvo Penta's history is shown with both marine and industrial engines. On the ground floor are Volvo Trucks , Volvo Buses and Volvo Construction Equipment . The exhibition is dynamic, so exhibited objects can vary.
The nearest bus stop is called Arendal Skans. By car, you take County Road 155 towards Öckerö and then follow signs for Arendal.
Source: volvomuseum.com/en/
At the heart of the busy Arendal industrial park just outside Gothenburg, from where Volvo still runs parts of its global business, you will find the Volvo Museum. Set in a beautiful location right next to the sea, visitors can explore the Volvo legacy through a wide range of exhibitions that showcase not only Volvo’s iconic cars, buses and commercial vehicles, but also many other temporary displays.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo
The Volvo Group (Swedish: Volvokoncernen; legally Aktiebolaget Volvo, shortened to AB Volvo, stylized as VOLVO) is a Swedish multinational manufacturing company headquartered in Gothenburg. While its core activity is the production, distribution and sale of trucks, buses and construction equipment, Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems and financial services. In 2016, it was the world's second largest manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks.
Automobile manufacturer Volvo Cars, also based in Gothenburg, was part of AB Volvo until 1999, when it was sold to the Ford Motor Company. Since 2010 it has been owned by the Chinese multinational automotive company Geely Holding Group. Both AB Volvo and Volvo Cars share the Volvo logo and cooperate in running the Volvo Museum in Sweden.
The company was first listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange in 1935, and was on the NASDAQ indices from 1985 to 2007.
Volvo was established in 1915 as a subsidiary of SKF, a ball bearing manufacturer; however both the Volvo Group and Volvo Cars regard the rollout of the company's first car series, the Volvo ÖV 4, on 14 April 1927, as their beginning. The building remains (57°42′50″N 11°55′19″E).
this has been my source of income for the past seven years.....and what an interesting seven year.....
our clientele is eclectic and fascinating....we've hosted everyone from Laura Bush (last week) Steven Spielberg, Cyndi Lauper and Bill Clinton, to Al Sharpton, Joy Behar, and Julie Andrews.....we have neighborhood regulars, upscale Southern tourists, European visitors, and even people from the East Side of Manhattan, visting us regularly........
however, the real reason I've managed to work here for so long (besides the interesting social study) is that it has been a secure and solid income for me...and three blocks from where I live!...
I remain thankful that it continues to sustain my New York existence as I pursue my artistic and humanitarian interests......
Source: Scan of the original item.
Set: NEW02.
Date: c. 1910?
Postmark: unposted.
Repository: From the collection of Mrs M. Newman.
With thanks to Mr R. Radway.
Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.