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LT355 (LTZ1355) is seen on Chelsea Bridge Road while working on the Route 137 to Streatham Hill, today the route 137 had a full complement of NBFL's on the route and is the latest route to convert to NBFL operation. (19/12/14)
A Volkswagen Golf VI 3dr GTI photographed in Beijing, Beijing municipality, China.
This Golf VI GTI has an embassy licenses plates.
The Chinese embassy plates are formed in this way :
red 使 (for 使馆 - Shǐguǎn meaning embassy) + 3 numbers (each country or international organization got its own numbers) + 3 numbers dedicated for cars (001 is usually for the Ambassador own vehicle).
For this Golf, number 176 is for Mexico.
This car is very rare in China.
If the Golf VI GTI was produced in China by the FAW-VW JV, but only in 5dr hatchback. The 3dr hatch was never produced or officially imported by VW.
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The Pontiac Firebird is an automobile which was built by the Pontiac division of General Motors between 1967 and 2002. The Firebird was introduced the same year as the automaker's platform-sharing model, the Chevrolet Camaro. This coincided with the release of the 1967 Mercury Cougar, which shared its platform with another pony car, the Ford Mustang.
The vehicles were powered by various four-cylinder, six-cylinder, and V8 engines sourced from several GM divisions. While primarily Pontiac-powered until 1977, Firebirds were built with several different engines from nearly every GM division until 1982 when GM began to discontinue engines it felt were unneeded and either spread successful designs from individual divisions among all divisions or use new engines of corporate architecture.
The name "Firebird" was also previously used by General Motors for the unrelated concept cars.
The Trans Am was a specialty package for the Firebird, typically upgrading handling, suspension, and horsepower, as well as minor appearance modifications such as exclusive hoods, spoilers, fog lights and wheels. In using the name Trans Am, a registered trademark, GM agreed to pay $5 per car sold to the SCCA. Four distinct generations were produced between 1969 and 2002. These cars were built on the F-body platform, which was also shared by the Chevrolet Camaro.
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Photographed at the Route 66 Cruisers Cruise-In at the Rock 'n Roll Hardee's in Springfield, Illinois on April 12, 2015.
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A surprise find at the British Commercial Vehicle Museum shop at Leyland the day before I flew out to Orlando was a quality collection of various scottish operator's' photograph's priced at 30p each or 4 for £1 , so you can imagine my delight at this lot....
The photo's are not marked copyright in any way so if anyone know's who took them , let me know and I will either credit them or remove the photo's.
This is SR2713 at rest at Stranraer alngside former West Midland's SR402 (GOG544N).
Hall County Sheriff's Office, Georgia
Ford Crown Victoria
Vehicle #3081
K-9 Unit
Picture Date: 10/19/2012
A Hall County Sheriff K-9 unit patrols the grounds of Road Atlanta during the racing event of Petit Le Mans 2012.
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I think this is a support vehicle for the Bamako Kalandrally, an endurance rally from Hungary to Mali
It looks as though I was trespassing here, but actually I was totally legal and pointing my camera through the fence. I see on Google Maps that this spot is now completely inaccessible behind 8ft "palisade" fencing. This was one of those click-wind, click-wind, click-wind moments that the 35mm SLR camera, with lever advance, encourages. Unfortunately I was so preoccupied with getting my four shots as the train passed that I forgot to look up for a glimpse of the nameplate; accordingly the identity of the locomotive must remain forever unknown. The train, seen on Friday 22nd November 1974 at Winterbourne, north of Bristol, was the 11:15 Paddington-Cardiff. Of the four shots I took, this one ...the first... is the one I like best. Hopelessly in love with the Colin T Gifford look. I can't quite be sure from the photo whether this is Continuous Welded Rail but, by this date, I'm sure it was. With the stop at Bristol Parkway up ahead, the locomotive was probably coasting, but in imagination I hear the zing and twitter of the train's approach, transmitted through the rails.
Greater Manchester PTE Plaxton Panorama Elite bodied Leyland Leopard 72 seen in Stockport in February 1985 wearing allover orange livery with a white roof after being downgraded to stage carriage work.
D.C. Metropolitan Police Department
Ford Explorer Utility
Vehicle #8664
Picture Date: 05/14/2014
This MPDC vehicle was spotted parked on the streets of Washington D.C.
en Friederichstrasse, lloviendo a cantaros - Imagen HDR desde un solo archivo RAW - 22 de marzo de 2007
Nikon D200 obj Nikon 18-200 mm VR f:5,6 - 1/20 seg @ 56mm - ISO 100
at Friederichstrasse, heavily raining - A HDR from a single RAW file - March 22nd 2007
Photographed at the Ford Fairlane Club of America National Meet in Springfield, Illinois on July 1-2, 2011.
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Seattle WA, Alki Beach, Apple iPhone
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37 221 heads a northbound engineers train at Bolton Percy. Included in the train are 08 931 (with coupling rods still attached) and an ex GWR Toad brake van
This was the second 08 seen being towed that afternoon
Hobbemakade, Amsterdam (Netherlands).
Small vehicles of the Amsterdam Fire Brigade (De Nederlandse Brandweer). I imagine that these are not those that they use to extinguish fires, although they have fire extinguisher...
In 1652 the old town hall of Amsterdam burnt down, while the new one (the current Royal Palace) was not finished yet. A lot of treasures and historical important charters were destroyed and the fire was a small disaster. Directly after the fire the municipal council bought 54 manual fire engines from Hans Hautsch in Nuernberg, Germany, with which the water could be pumped up to 15 meters. Amsterdam was by then a rapidly growing and very prospering city.
One of the witnesses of the town hall fire was a twelve year old guy named Jan van der Heiden. This brilliant young lad was studying glasspainting and had fantastic organisational talents. In 1669 he submitted a plan for a public street lighting in the whole city of Amsterdam. He designed a lantern burning on oil, that was wind- and watertight and still got enough oxygen to stay alight. His plan was adapted and Jan built the lanterns and the organisation to light and extuinguish them. Only after that it was possible to go out at night, because the danger of walking into one of the many canals and of thieves and robbers was minimised. For the first time in history it was possible to go out at night to inns or brothels, which florished with the much longer opening times. You could say that Jan van der Heiden invented or in any case made possible the nightlife, for which Amsterdam is still famous. His street lighting system found following in the cities of Groningen, Berlin and St. Petersburg. Besides that he was a very good painter and drawer and he is recognised as one of the great Dutch masters of the 17th century.
Jan van der Heiden was as important for fire fighting history in Europe as George Washington was for the history of the U.S.A. He invented the use of fire hose, improved the manual fire engines, organised the first real volunteer fire brigade in his part of the world and wrote and illustrated the first book on the subject of firefighting.
The first trial of the use of hose was in 1672 with a the portable watersack. At the canal men on a ladder filled the watersack in a trestle with buckets. From the trestle, which was higher than the fire engine the water flowed to the engine in a linen hose, where the water entered a tank from which the pump gave it to the spout under pressure. The results were very good and within a few weeks the Van der Heiden brothers (Jan and Nicolaas) were appointed engineers of the city's fire engines. They were only responsible for the quality and maintenance of the engines, not the way these were used. That came only in 1685.
In 1673 another - far more exiting - trial took place. To one of the city's 60 fire engines they connected a leather hose on the place of the spout and put the spout at the other end of the hose. Thus creating the first attackhose. The attack- or extinguishing hose, transporting water under pressure, had to be of a tougher material and was made of leather. The sewing of leather was not an unknown craft in the seafaring industry of Amsterdam.
With these improvements it was not longer necessary to place the pump near the water or under the fire (which had caused many deaths when buildings collapsed), but somewhere inbetween. Besides that, the water could now be brought into the burning rooms instead of against them. You could say that the Van der Heidens invented the interior attack of fires.
In the years after the trial of 1673 the Van der Heiden brothers rebuilt all the city's old engines and built new engines to their own design, that were lighter and easier to handle.
Beside the inventions Jan van der Heiden organised the City of Amsterdams fire fighting organisation. He formed the first real volunteer fire brigade in 1685, of which he and his son (also named Jan) were the first fire chiefs.
Source: www.brandweer.nl/cms/show/id=497806.
It was #48 in Explore on Feb 7, 2007.
Photographed at the Early Ford V-8 Club of America 2014 Central National Meet in Springfield, Illinois on August 19-22, 2014.
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This very unusual looking RV caught my attention at Yachats this weekend. I really would like to know what it is, but there was no identification on it. Does anybody recognize it? Who made it, where, or when?
Photographed at the International Station Wagon Club Annual Convention in Springfield, Illinois on June 23-27, 2015.
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This vehicle was taken at the Night of Blue Lights event in Watkinsville, GA. Thanks to the K-9 handler for allowing a picture of his cool ride!
New Castle Police Department, Delaware
Dodge Charger
Vehicle #33-10
Picture Date: 03/19/2015
A New Castle, Delaware Police Officer stands at the door of one of their Dodge Chargers.
Unusual International school bus. There are dozens of lakes in this area and many Summer camps. My assumption is that along with campers and staff this vehicle also carriers canoes at the back and luggage on the rooftop carrier but that is only a guess.
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Range Rover XST300V (first registered May 1980) believed on A82 near Fort William circa 1983. Note it is one of earliest vehicles in the force to be fitted with a lightbar
These shots were on slides given to me a long time back, and which I I have only recently managed to "develop" thanks to the gift of an elederly scanner with slide/negative capability. They nicely depict the early styles of Northern Constabulary vehicle livery.
NORTHERN CONSTABULARY VEHICLE LIVERY
At the outset in May 1975, at the creation of Northern Constabulary, there was no definitive livery set in respect t of the force’s marked vehicle fleet.
PERIOD 1 (1975-1980) plain era (CC: Henderson)
Traffic patrol vehicles, and - over time – various other vehicles most likely to patrol major roads and/or attend incidents thereon, were fitted with a broad reflective orange stripe, edged with blue tape. Other GP (= General Purpose) vehicles were plain white (or also in the case of some vans - blue, whether navy, royal or light according to what were available for purchase). A white on blue plate, or blue reflective lettering (red on rear) was applied to the front and rear of all vehicles. All marked vehicles had only a single blue rotating beacon at that time, unless twin-beacons came as part of a roof box.
PERIOD 2 (1980-1995) roundel era (CC: Henderson/MacMillan)
During 1979 Superintendent George Henderson designed a Force Badge, which was taken into use at the beginning of 1980. As well as use as epaulette insignia and on official stationery, the circular design was printed in black on white reflective material and applied to the driver’s and front passenger doors of all marked vehicles in the Force. Traffic and other “trunk road” vehicles continued to bear the orange stripe along their length. The first issue decal was of 12 inch diameter and was intended to be sited right in the centre of the door panel. As vehicle design evolved however , and door/wing protective strips became part and parcel of vehicles, so it was found that the large door decal could no longer be fitted appropriately without cutting the design. Accordingly a revised version of the decal was produced, of 8 inch diameter, and would if necessary be applied over the orange reflective stripe to ensure the decal was proud of the door protective strip.
PERIOD 3 (1996-2005) blue stripe era (CC: Robertson/Latimer)
In order to create a “corporate identity” for the force, Chief Constable Robertson commissioned a project to produce a new corporate livery. By this time the "12 Sub Divisions and 3 Divisions" model had become obsolete (but was subsequently re-invented!) so the border of the Force Badge was no longer appropriate – albeit the epaulette insignia was never changed. This revamping involved focusing upon the centrepiece of the badge – the St Andrews Cross with 4 Celtic knots, and using that device within its circle, on a vertical blue stripe. The Force title in large lettering, and continued use of the bilingual motto (although initially a corporate slogan was to replace same) appeared to its right. This design was accompanied by a change to yellow (bordered with blue) reflective stripe the length of the vehicle - with a suitable gap for where the new logo would appear. An experiment was subsequently attempted, using a silver-grey car but it was found that the logo was woefully ineffective on a background colour other than white and the use of silver or grey vehicles for marked duty was not re-visited until "Battenberg" days. A few of the older vehicles which already had orange stripe were rebadged with stripe left in situ, but all other vehicles including GP ones were quickly re-liveried, a move which went down well with the rank-and-file. There can be little doubt that this livery was the smartest of any ever used in the Highlands and Islands.
PERIOD 4 (2005 – 2013) Battenberg era (CC: Latimer/Graham)
The results of the Home Office Scientific Branch research into Police vehicle visibility resulted in their 2004 Report: “High Conspicuity Livery for Police Vehicles. The report (14/04) carried on from previous research which had seen the “Battenberg” livery introduced from 1998 in an number of UK Police forces for Traffic vehicles. The report found that the Battenberg design , being a “diced band” two deep of alternating blue and yellow cubes, taking up almost the entire height of the vehicle’s side bodywork was the optimum design, and should be adopted for road patrol vehicles. Half Battenberg (one deep stripe of alternating blue and yellow along the length of the vehicle, with large blue lettering POLICE below) was recommended for GP vehicles. This proposal was accepted by ACPO and ACPOS and in late 2005 Northern Constabulary began to adopt that style. Excising Road Policing Unit (formerly Traffic) vehicles were immediately re-liveried to Battenberg, while all new GP vehicles entering the fleet from then on would be liveried as half Battenberg as part of their setting up. Existing GP vehicles would continue to bear their existing livery and thus the new livery would gradually be fully introduced through natural attrition. Force identify on the new livery would be maintained by means of a much smaller version of the corporate logo/title on the leading yellow cube on the driver and front passenger door.
In preparation for the 2013 amalgamation of all Scottish Police forces into “Police Scotland”, the Force logo/title was not applied to new GP vehicles from 2011 onwards, although the URL of the Force website was displayed in a transfer on the both rear side door pillars.
Vehicle make
FORD
Date of first registration
15 November 1996
Year of manufacture
1996
Cylinder capacity (cc)
1299cc
Wilmington Police Department, Delaware
Chevrolet Tahoe
Vehicle #2142
K-9 Unit
Picture Date: 04/27/2015
This Chevrolet Tahoe K-9 unit is owned by the Wilmington Police Department in Delaware.
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Explore #190 on September 1, 2014.
Photographed at the Early Ford V-8 Club of America 2014 Central National Meet in Springfield, Illinois on August 19-22, 2014.
Please visit my collection of Motor Vehicles on Flickr where you will find over 10,000 car and truck photos organized in albums by model year, manufacturer, vehicle type, and more. This project, which began in 2008, continues to expand with new material added daily.