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Greater Manchester Transport
Leyland Atlantean / NCME
8172 (VBA 172S)
outside the NCME works at Wigan 25/2/78
BKP
Based at Queens Road depot at the time, GMT 8160 (VBA 160S) is pictured in Manchester's Albert Square. A Northern Counties-bodied Atlantean, it was new in January 1978.
Stagecoach Merseyside SM66 VBA 10831
Fleet: 10831
Reg: SM66 VBA
Operator: Stagecoach Merseyside
Route: 86 - South Parkway
Depot: Gillmoss
Livery: Standard Beachball
Type: Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC
Location: Liverpool, Catharine Street
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West Yorkshire Bus Spotter, WYBS
The VBA (Veicolo Blindato Anfibio, in Italian) it's a amphibious vehicle product of Consorzio Iveco - Oto Melara on the base of project VBM Freccia. The SuperAV (Surface Performance Amphibious Vehicle) is based on Freccia hull, but more raised than the latter to improve movement in the water. It's an armoured 8x8 wheeled vehicle, with high load capacities. 560 hp Iveco Cursor engine, 700km of range. This version mounts an remoted HITFIST OWS turret by Oto Melara: one ATK Mk44 Bushmaster 30mm main cannon; 7,62 mm coaxial machine gun, Janus optical system, 1 side compartment for 2 Rafeal Spike missiles, engagement systems, which allow it to operate both day and night, infrared (IR) systems, anemometer and laser rangefinder. In the event of a system failure, the turret remains operational and ready to fire via an optical aiming system. There are also 2 launchers with four smoke bombs each. The variants for the foreign market of this vehicle will be mainly adopted by the US Marines: the American model is known as ACV 1.1, by Iveco-Bae.
This would turn out to be quite a rare shot really, as it spent very little time running on its original plate, becoming TPX 884 just a few weeks later, and retaining that plate for the rest of its working life, which went on to 2005.
GMT took delivery of 4 new Tiger / Paramounts for the Charterplan coaching unit in 1985, with B368-70 VBA having 53-seat 3200 bodies, whereas 371 was a 3500 with 49-seat executive spec., so the obvious choice for the rally. It stayed here until the sale of the unit to East Yorkshire Motor Services in 1996, then in early 1998 it was sold to Rothbury Motors in Northumberland, who used it until 2005, then put the plate onto a couple of their other coaches in later years.
Springfield Park, Wigan, 13/4/85
This is the planetarium on Monte Sano in Huntsville, Al. I took this a couple of years ago and never posted it because it did not come out exactly how I wanted it. While taking the shots, a guy came out of the building with a green laser and pointed all over the grass.
N742 VBA
Volvo Olympian/Alexander Royale H45/29F
Langston & Tasker, Steeple Claydon
Steeple Claydon, 14 March 2014
New to Finglands
After a few years' absence, double-deckers returned to the Langston & Tasker fleet for school contracts won in 2011. All are Volvo Olympians, three of which are former Finglands vehicles with Alexander Royale bodies. This operator also has N740 VBA and N743 VBA, but not N741 VBA as that one went to Tees Valley Coaches in the north east.
Citroen 2CV6 Special (1981-88) Engine 602cc HO2 OHV Production 3,872,600
Registration Number D 700 VBA (Manchester)
CITROEN SET
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Made until 1988 at the Levallois plant North West, Paris but continued in Portugal until 1990. Originally introduced with a 375cc HO2 engine, increased to 425cc and finally 602cc. One of the few makes of car to have gone on to achieve cult status.
In 1936, Pierre-Jules Boulanger, the vice-president of Citroën and chief of the Engineering and Design department, set the brief to his design team at the Bureau d'études. The TPV (Toute Petite Voiture — "Very Small Car") was to be developed at Michelin facilities at Clermont-Ferrand and at Citroën in Paris under chief engineer André Lefèbvre , his own speciality being chassis design. By 1939 the TPV was deemed ready, after 47 differing prototypes had been built. During the summer of 1939 a pilot run of 250 cars was produced and on 28 August 1939 the car finally received French market homologation and the car was schedualed to make its public debut at the 1939 Paris Motorshow which was cancelled due to the impending war. The project, which had developed in some secrecy was shelved and the cars either hidden, disguised or destroyed during the years of occupation. André Lefèbvre had in the meantime decided to abandon the water cooled engine and breifed Walter Becchia to design an air-cooled unit, still of two cylinders, and still of 375cc. Other changes included seats with tubular steel frames with rubber band springing and a restyling of the body. further delays ensued in 1944 caused by the incoming socialist Government. The 2CV was finally launched at the 1948 Paris Salon (Motorshow) to great acclaim and Citroen were flooded with orders, over the years the 375cc engine grew to its final 602cc and vans and pick ups, were built, while the car developed into many different forms
The Special was updated for 1981, with a centrafugal clutch, disc brakes and a 25 litre fuel tank, the changes later being rolled out to all models