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I felt like taking a 'standard' shot of Drax 60066 south of Willington (South Derbyshire) on 26/01/19, instead of trying anything different, as there was the promise of sun. This turned out to be just a promise however, as it was still dull when the 6M57 0717 Lindsey Oil Refinery to Kingsbury Oil Sdgs tanks powered through.
Here's the video of it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcZ3gMGI8Rg
The Vanguard was Standard's first all new car after the war. Designed by Walter Belgrove it was based on the designs of Americans cars of the period.
Coventry Transport Museum
Millennium Place
Hales Street
Coventry
England - United kingdom
November 2018
Balloon 715 and newly repainted Standard 147 passing near Manchester Square on midweek Heritage Tour duty.
Seen at Australian Motorlife Museum 10th Annual Motoring Expo.
MAY also be known as Buick 20-26 and/or Buick Standard Six
Between the mid 1930s and 1961, the colour scheme of Rochdale Corporation Transport buses was a rich blue and cream laid out in an elaborate 'streamlined' style' with plenty of detailed black lining out. Rochdale buses carried no exterior advertisements, as the town was rightly proud of its buses and didn't want to spoil them by having them used as mobile billboards.
But as passenger numbers fell in the 1950s and 1960s as car ownership grew, and people stayed at home to watch television instead of going to the cinema, the realities of economics bit hard. Rochdale had to simplify its paint scheme to save money on repaints and repairs, and also began to accept advertising on its buses. The new colour scheme - all-over cream with a single blue band - wasn't as nice as the old one but there simply wasn't the money to spend on luxuries any more.
To make matters worse, it was becoming more and more difficult to attract people to work on the buses at this time of full employment. Each year's annual report from the Rochdale General Manager bemoaned the high turnover of staff and the shortage of labour, both on the road and in the garage. So standards slipped, with buses being put into service with dents and scratches that would never have been allowed out in that state years earlier.
So SELNEC 6203, formerly Rochdale 303, looked thoroughly dull as it picked up passengers outside the town's Port Office. At least it wasn't badly dented, but it wasn't hard to find buses that were. Even in the cream livery 303 was a handsome bus, but similar 280 is restored to its original colour scheme and is in the care of the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester showing what a splendid colour scheme these buses wore when new.
If you'd like to know more about the Museum of Transport Greater Manchester and its collection of vintage buses, go to www.gmts.co.uk.
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Non-Sporting Group: Whether Standard, Miniature, or Toy, and either black, white, or apricot, the Poodle stands proudly among dogdom's true aristocrats. Beneath the curly, low-allergen coat is an elegant athlete and companion for all reasons and seasons.
1955 Standard 10 948cc, XFC 544, at the Gloucestershire Vintage & Country Extravaganza on 2 August 2025.
Quebec Gatineau 502 in Côte Saint-Luc after having just left CPKC's St-Luc Yard. It is passing through the Meadowbrook Golf Course here with QGRY 4021, QGRY 3102, QGRY 3801 & QGRY 801 for power and a short train (40ish cars).
BR Standard class 2 no. 80136 (running as no. 80116) climbs past Beck Hole on 23rd September 2023 heading the 14.58 Grosmont to Pickering service, during the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Autumn Steam Gala. 80116 was the locomotive used on the final BR steam hauled passenger service on the line.
CP has been running 2 ballast train sets out of Watertown, WI with 2 SD40-2's lately. Watertown, WI 2020-04
The good news is that DST (Daylight STANDARD TIME) has finally kicked back in.
I'm not a moron, and therefore, I reject anyone who dares call a period of 4 months of the year in darkness "Standard Time". No, that's just preposterous.
We're on NORMAL time and that's the way it should stay ALWAYS. You can debate me on that if you want but I'll humble you and make you feel silly.
I digress. Yes, I did compose this so the monument looked like it was blasting off.
Daylight Standard Time got off to a myeh start. Nice that sunrise was 7:22 instead of 6:22, but there was only about 2 minutes of color in the pre-dawn and though the clouds were a solid B, the color disappeared, never to return. Oh... and it was cold. REALLY cold. 18 degrees, cold... and breezy. But not too terrible thanks to handwarmers.
It feels creepy going into the District these days knowing the orange occupation is present. Don't know how often I'll do this, but at the same time, where I live, there's just nowhere else to photograph anything decent within a 35 minute drive, and I've long since given up that life of chasing weather and driving hours for poor weather. If I'm going to get a blah sunrise, I figure it's best it not cost me more than about $4 in gas.
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British Railways Class 4MT 78084 approaches a rain drenched Ramsbottom on 1015 Rawtenstall - Heywood service on 05/03/2017
Very simple gilt title in a black blocked panel on a black background. Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company, Pittsburg. 1929. See below for the whole cover (very difficult to scan accurately)
BR standard class 4 passes Copmanthorpe on the approach to York, during a move from Carnforth to Grosmont, NYMR. The loco had completed a loaded main line test run from Carnforth the previous day.
Saw her from a distance as i drove into the centre of Derby and you don't see many of these today still in commercial use, you just know a Manchester Standard when you see one don't you?, dumped my bus in the bus station and scuttled off to find her and caught her just in time before she drove off, former Greater Manchester Northern Counties bodied Leyland Atlantean A671HNB (8671), captured here driving off in the centre of Derby.
The owner told me that she's being retired at the end of the year and is entering preservation with her replacement coming from that preservation society.
7th June 2025
26 Broadway was originally built for Standard Oil; Rockefeller had his office here. (And, long before that, Alexander Hamilton lived at this address.) Carrère & Hastings; Shreeve, Lamb & Blake; 1920–28. The tower portion is inconspicuous from street level, but it doubles the height of the building. The two parts of the building are oriented independently: the facade follows the curve of lower Broadway, whereas the tower follows the uptown street grid so that it matches the rest of the skyline.
A cheerful couple and their pet spaniel posing with a seemingly brand-new Standard Vanguard. She is dressed in a female suit in the fashion of the late 1940s, he is wearing a traditional Alpine suit known as Trachtenanzug. The car is registered in the city of Vienna, the print is dated "1949" on reverse.
Country of origin: Austria
A family of three proudly posing with a Standard in the gravelled drive of an English middle-class home.
Country of origin: UK
Testing the capabilities of an early Rolleiflex Standard 622. There doesn't seem to be an infinity focus on this camera but for an uncoated lens, it takes pretty good images. Taken on Fujifilm.
The Standard Fireworks site at Crosland Hill has been sold to Housing Developers, with approximately 700 houses to be built there.
Last year I decided to record what was left of the buildings on the site. All of my pictures were shot from outside of the site itself, so walls, fences, trees and shrubs get in the way.
I worked there over thirty years ago, so will try to give context to the pictures from my fading memory.
The green corrugated buildings called Magazines were used to store either finished boxes of fireworks or individual fireworks waiting to be packed in various sizes of Firework Boxes for sale.
Corrugated on the outside and lined with wood paneling on the interia.
A brief history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Fireworks
The Standard of Ur, 2600-2400 B.C.E., shell, limestone, lapis lazuli, and bitumen, 21.59 x 49.53 x 12 cm (British Museum, London)
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1933 - 1935
Standard Fahrzeugfabrik - Ludwigsburg, Germany
Louwman Museum
Den Haag - The Hague
Nederland - Netherlands
August 2018
Got this little gal for a nice price, probably because her hair was cut, but she's so pretty otherwise. Barbie is wearing a dress from the Sears Glamor Group collection.
Daimler Fleetline TNB759K was one of the few prototype Standard vehicles that escaped the cutters torch and went on to have a second career.
It was sold on to the Middleton Scout and Guide Band as transport for the various walking days and marches the band would attend. It is seen in the former Bee Line yard at Oldham in the mid nineties in a vandalised state.
Ordered by Rochdale Corporation, the order was changed to allow the chassis to be sent to Northern Counties to be bodied to the style produced by the Selnec designers of what would become the Selnec Standard vehicle.