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From Railpage Australia:
"The B class was the first mainline diesel-electric locomotives in Victoria, Australia. The design was based on the successful General Motors EMD F-unit locomotives with the distinctive bulldog nose. They are a double ended streamliner locomotive, in contrast to North American practice. Ordered and operated by the Victorian Railways, they started dieselisation of the system and saw use on both passenger and freight services
"When tendering for the locomotives construction, VR specified a double-ended design to eliminate the need to turn locos at the end of a run. This led to Clyde Engineering to modify the design of the GM1 class with a cab at either end, with a Co-Co wheel arrangement – the first example of this particular wheel arrangement in the country.
"As with the GM1 class before them, the B Class quickly displaced steam from the premier express trains within Victoria, including the Sprit of Progress. They would remain in active service long past the introduction of more modern locomotives that followed them, and a number continue on in commercial ownership today. Eleven locomotives would be rebuilt into the A Class in the 1980s."
As at September 2015 there are only five B-class operational - B61 B74 B75 B76 and B80.
Taken in Chiswick High Road, near to the main gate of Chiswick London Tranport Works.
The small boy spotter on his bike brings back memories of myself and I am sure a few other like minded old boys as lads. Not to be sexist, but they were mainly young boys who spotted buses.
200CXK, 1220F7 - Thames Trader 7 ton open lorry, in service 12/61 - 10/72.
Vehicles details from LOTS Sup15 by Julian Bowden-Green.
Photographer unknow.
Photo prise à l'aéroport de Toulouse-Blagnac (LFBO) en France.
Picture take at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport (LFBO) in France.
Photographed at the Culver's Cruise in Springfield, Illinois on June 26, 2011. This monthly (May through September) event is sponsored by the Central Illinois Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America.
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.
Ottawa Police / Fire / EMS Paramedic Freightliner Truck Command vehicle. This unit is shared among the three services and is special called but it is rarely seen at anything other than Police incidents. Pictured on the ramp in front of OFS Fire Station 36 which is the primary training station in the department. Taken in Ottawa, Ontario Canada ©Ian A. McCord
This is a model of a inservice vehicle based at Fletchamstead Highway Police Station, on the A45, Coventry. The model comes with the correct livery including battenburgs, chevrons, Police wording, crests fleet numbers and crime stopper logos. The vehicle also has the same lights as the real thing and even comes with a tax disk.
Here are some links to pictures of the real vehicle:
www.flickr.com/photos/44993077@N06/4734644858/
www.flickr.com/photos/44993077@N06/4734005819/in/photostr...
Arriva Wardle Transport has 10 DAF 250s with Alexander ALX400 bodywork in its fleet,with an 11th member being obtained as a source of spares.Here is the depot Christmas Tree ex Arriva London DLA 141,V341 DGT,at Adderley Green depot on February 22nd .
Photographed at the 2013 Oldsmobile Club of America National Meet at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Springfield, Illinois on July 23-27, 2013. Co-hosts of the event were the Archway Oldsmobile Club and Illinois Valley Oldsmobile Club.
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.
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These photographs show a Police 4x4 Driving Course in progress at Daviot quarry, near Inverness in October 1990, with the driver (then PC739) who coincidentally would later be the local bobby for the area (and indeed the last Daviot Beat officer, as the Station closed in 1997). The livery is the PERIOD 2 (Roundel) one - www.flickr.com/groups/northern_constabulary_museum/discus...
These courses were usually run as part of the General Purpose and Advanced (Patrol Car) Driving Courses run by the Force’s Driver Training Unit. Whereas in many UK forces, the requirement for 4x4 training would be restricted to Traffic and other specialist officers, it was a whole different ball-game in Northern Constabulary. Given the terrain and weather, the force had a disproportionately large percentage of 4x4 vehicles, which were regularly used for various purposes - off-road (e.g. in Mountain Rescue support and to access radio masts) and also in snow patrol work of main roads. They were also used in rural areas in all seasons due to the difficulty of accessing remote locations. Indeed when I joined the Inverness Constabulary in 1973, the only GP vehicle supplied to both Aviemore and Portree was a SWB Land Rover. Thus ALL police officers had to have “4x4” entitlement on their police driving licence, or they would have needed to walk everywhere! Mind you, the fuel shortages and huge hike in petrol prices in the late 1970s soon saw the 4x4s taken off GP lists, and used only when necessary.
I did a couple of courses, at either end of the 1980s, both times instructed by the late PC John Allen (see Glencoe Range Rover photo). John (who sadly passed away in 2010) was a fount of knowledge and experience, none more so than in respect of 4x4 driving in general, and in snow patrol in particular. God Bless you, John!
The 4x4 courses were amazing, a true eye-opener as to what a Land Rover or Range Rover can do and at what angle they can do it. Training was on the very rutted and undulating “roads” in the quarry, through pools of very muddy water within which lurked who knew what, and also up and down (and diagonally) steep grassy slopes.
Given the cost of these vehicles, it was important that officers knew how to handle them. But it was not all just economics – a “bent” 4x4, off the road when most needed, created considerable logistical problems, as it was well nigh impossible to source another one temporarily at time of most need.
The bad storms of the late-1970s, and the resulting amazingly deep snow drifts (with tragic consequences) resulted in the need for constant police snow patrols to be carried out on trunk routes in the Northern Constabulary area in times of snow, to ensure that no-one was trapped in a stuck vehicle. Major routes so patrolled included the A9 Inverness-Aviemore (Slochd Summit), A9 Kingussie-County March (Drumochter Summit), A82 Fort William-Glencoe, and the A9 Helmsdale-Dunbeath (Ord of Caithness). Not only did officers doing such patrols – and it was the local officers who did so, often for days and nights on end – have to undergo 4x4 training, they also were sent on snow survival courses too. Mind you, as one seasoned officer said: “If the bosses think I am going to abandon a nice warm Range Rover and go and dig a hole in the snow, they have another think coming!”
The snow patrol 4x4 was equipped with a huge box containing survival equipment, and we were actually issued with the best of clothing for the purpose – the outer garments being bright orange. One drawback was the hood of the over-jacket was huge, apparently designed so the officer could continue to wear his/her police hat. (What wally specified that??) Needless to say, the wind blew into either side of the hood - and took hood and hat (and almost your head too, thanks to the chinstrap!) with it!! Routine snow patrol meant checking the length of the designated route, periodically, while weather was bad or was forecast. If it turned really bad, then you never left that stretch of road, usually in convoy with a 6x4 Council snowplough. If you and snow plough driver reckoned it was reaching danger level, the road was then closed, and the snow gates at either end were locked. You could not just leave then though. A police vehicle and driver was posted at each snow gate to deter people – it was not unknown for folk to try to drive around the gates or burst the padlock. Then the Police Range Rover and council Snowplough fought their way through the length of the closed stretch to ensure no vehicles were stuck, or if there were, to ensure all occupants had been safely evacuated. The gates remained “manned” by a police officer as long as the road remained closed.
Some people found it hard to accept that the conditions were so bad as to justify road closure, especially since the gates were (at the Helmsdale end) at sea level. If only we could have let them see just how bad it could be up top – walls of snow drifting higher than a double-decker bus, cuttings filling in as the snow blew down the side of the mountains, gusts liable to blow you and your vehicle clean off the roadway, and the snow-filled wind freezing exposed skin in seconds. It was hard, even for us, to appreciate the immense difference in conditions in the few miles, and several hundred feet climb, between the village and the top of “the Ord” – which looks so picturesque on a clear, sunny summer’s day but which can be a cauldron of snow on a windy, freezing, winter’s night.
Latterly, other makes of 4x4 were used for patrol, including Mercedes G-wagens, and various Nissans (some badged as Fords), plus of course BMW X5s, but for snow it had to be a Range Rover. Not even the Land Rover came close - although in ice, or mud, or moorland, the Landie was king.
Many thanks to 739 for the photos
Photographed at the 2010 Hot Rod Power Tour stopover in Springfield, Illinois on June 6, 2010.
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.
Surviving Lincolnshire Roadcar vehicles still in service with Stagecoach East Midlands are gradually becoming less and less. I can't believe that it has been 10 years since Stagecoach took over Roadcar's parent company, the Yorkshire Traction Group. Where has that time gone?!!
Here we see FT02FFA, an East Lancs Vyking bodied Volvo B7TL, on Priorygate in Lincoln on 1st July 2016. It was new to Roadcar in August 2002 as fleet number 904. After the Stagecoach takeover, it became their 16904. Until recently, it had been painted in an adapted purple version of Stagecoach fleet livery, for use on Lincolnshire County Council services. It has recently been repainted into standard fleet livery.
I'm not sure if these Volvo deckers will fall foul of the DDA regulations that come into force at the end of the year. The recent repaint would suggest not, here's hoping!
Photographed at the 2010 International Route 66 Mother Road Festival in Springfield, Illinois on September 24-26, 2010.
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.
Photographed at the 65th Secretary of State Vehicle Show in Springfield, Illinois on September 6, 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.
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853) - The Russian Ship of the Line -Asow- and a Frigate at Anchor in the Roads of Elsinore (1828)
Former Lancashire United 'Jumbo' 33ft Daimler Fleetline 2358 is hooked up to one of Barnsleys breakers Bedford KM recovery vehicles ready to make its final journey accross the Pennines where it will meet its ultimate demise. The year is 1984 and although the LUT fleet had been fully integrated into the Greater Manchester fleet since 1981, no less than four different liveries can be seen in this view. The Jumbo is still in LUT red and grey, two standards to the left are in the original SELNEC style scheme and the 1981 brown skirt scheme resprectivley and the Fleetline next to the Jumbo is in the LUT version of GMT orange which had been introduced from the 1978 deliveries.
It will be noted that the Bedford is unregistered and on trade plates. Legislation brought in after the 1st of January 1988 revised the use of trade plates and if this vehicle survived until that date would lead to it recieving either a plate relevent to its age or a 'Q' plate. The location is the former LUT nerve centre at Atherton.
Something simple after a long break. Hope you like it :)
My favorite alternative is #4. Maybe one day I will build a similar model.
Greater Manchester Police, (GMP) Land Rover Discovery, MX11 HHS, Armed Response Vehicle (ARV). The red square on the bonnet, sides and rear distinguish this as an ARV. Seen at the Openshaw workshops complex on Saturday the 26th of January 2013. DSCF7375
A convoy of World War One vehicles travelled from Bovington Tank Musuem to Tarrant Hinton today. The vehicles will be on display at the Great Dorset Steam Fair later this month. I heard about the convoy on local radio this morning, but it was by chance that we saw the convoy in the distance, and managed to pull over in time to get some shots as it passed!
Tarrant Hinton, Dorset 16.08.2014
Central Scotland Police - Volvo V70
Randolphfield, CS Police HQ, Stirling, Scotland, UK
SN60 DWA
One of two Armed Response Vehicles belonging to the force.
Photographed at the rear of Ottawa Fire Services Fire Station 44 in Barrhaven. This pod vehicle runs on major confined space, building collapses, trench rescues and other incidents where extra or specialized equipment is needed.
During 1983 London Transport placed orders for three Leyland Olympians to be used alongside equal numbers of Volvo Ailsa B55s, MCW Metrobus Mk IIs and Dennis Dominators under the Alternative Vehicle Evaluation programme. The Olympians were the first type to arrive in February 1984 and L1 was licensed for service at Stockwell from 23rd March of the same year. Their Eastern Coach Works bodies introduced some features unusual to London, including rear facing-seats over the lower saloon rear axle and a nearside route blind at the bottom of the front bay. Their interiors were considerably influenced by Titan design.
L1 as seen here on the route chosen for the AVE trials, Stockwells 170 from Roehampton to Aldwych was fitted with a Leyland TL11 engine coupled to a Hydracyclic gearbox wheras Ls 2 and 3 had a Gardner 6LXB with Voith D851 transmission.
At the conclusion of the trials an order for 260 Olympians with ECW bodies was placed and production vehicles had a Gardner / Hydracyclic specification.
The bus is pictured on Whitehall bound for Aldwych in May 1985.
Another picture taken on the same holiday as that of the Interbus Seddon in Dorchester posted earlier. The weather in Bournemouth was little or no better, most pictures required the proverbial 'fortnight at F2' exposure.
Here ex NBC operator Wilts & Dorset are using an ex London Transport DMS type Daimler Fleetline OJD 230R, whilst a 'Yellow Buses' (formerly Bournemouth Corporation) Marshall bodied Leyland Olympian TJT 184X overtakes. The Municipal fleet had itself been a long standing devotee of the Fleetline too, until ending of production by Leyland, forced a change of course. Their final deliveries of the Leyland built Daimler product were on 'W' plates. The picture was taken just off Bournemouth Square in 1987.
United States Park Police
Ford Crown Victoria
K-9 Unit "Jersey"
Picture Date: 05/14/2014
This U.S. Park Police K-9 vehicle sat parked on the streets of Washington D.C.
Photographed at the Illinois State Fair Twilight Parade in Springfield on August 12, 2010.
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.
37 123 adds to the pollution at Birmingham New Street station as it prepares to reverse on to the stock for the 13.40 Birmingham - Leeds. A class 37 was a rare fairly sight in New Street and this service was normally a Peak or a 47. About to be revealed from behind the loco an enthusiast writes down the number, he is wearing a shirt that has the huge collar favouerd by the comedian Harry Hill, they looked silly then as well!
The R.S.H built loco was deliverd new to Cardiff as D6823 25/04/1963, it became 37 123 01/01/1973 and in 1986 was reclassified as 37 679 it was withdrawn 01/12/2000 and listed on B.R. Database as preserved.
22/08/1978
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