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26th October 2011.
West Midlands Travel Limited Volvo B10B-58 (YV3R14F13TA002563) / Wright Endurance (U341) B48F 9377 - N377WOH.
New to West Midlands Travel Limited June 1996 as fleet number 1377.
Walsall Garage, Walsall, West Midlands.
Wearing a plain white livery 9377 is seen between training duties at Walsall garage. Although allocated the fleet number 9377 during it's employment on the training fleet the number was never carried, nor it's previous passenger fleet number for that matter. The only modifications made to this vehicle are the removal of the cab door and security screen and the addition of a centrally mounted instructors chair with additional foot brake pedal.
Image Copyright D.J.Ralley 2011.
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Greater Manchester Police, BMW 5 series saloon, MX62 CVK, RPU Motorway specification vehicle. Luke loves the 'flappy paddle' gearboxes on these. Taken at the Central Workshop Complex, Openshaw on Saturday the 13th of April 2013. Saturday 13 April 2013 DSCF7530
I had no idea there was still a Mk1 Focus being used as an active police vehicle around here. There surely can't be many left of this vintage around the country now in February 2014? This one's nearly ten years old- it shows too with the faded stickers. I bet this one'll be retired soon. The mileage on it is probably quite high.
2005 Ford Focus LX TDI DI
Does anyone else have any Mk1 Focuses or cars of similar age or older still in service?
That was one of the most epic moments during Gumball 3000 in Vienna for me.SLS Black Series rolling down with doors open,between all those supercars.It really looked mighty.After seeing this car on car show,I wasn't really sure what to think of it,since light was terrible there,but after encounter in Austria,I can report that it's absolutely fantastic!
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Photographed at the 64th Secretary of State Vehicle Show in Springfield, Illinois on September 7, 2013.
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A total of 37 Ford Cunningham Town Cars were built between 1935 and 1937, and only 17 of these cars are known to exist. Cunningham began as a maker of carriages, but by the time of the Great Depression, the company decided to produce a lower cost town car. Beginning with a 1936 Ford, Cunningham removed the body from behind the cowl and replaced it with their own body, which included an open drivers area, and a large passenger area with seating for four. According to the owner, the engine and chassis were unchanged and remained entirely Ford, However, Cunningham removed the Ford name from all visible parts to distinguish it as a Cunningham Automobile.
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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Stagecoach Eastbourne 33370 is seen here in Harrow Lane,St. Leonards-On-Sea on 30th January 2012 on a Stagecoach in Hastings local service. It doesn't have blinds for the area,hence the card with the 26A route number in the window.This was a short term loan until 3/2/12..The vehicle came to Stagecoach with the takeover of Cavendish Motor Services in Eastbourne back in 2008.It is a Dennis Dart with Plaxton body.It still wears 'East Kent' names from a previous spell with them.
Times were a changing following the FirstBus takeover of GM Buses North. Traditionally time expired vehicles that were still half decent joined the Driver Training fleet for a final fling at life before heading for the scrap man.
The men in suits at First decided to send a couple of Atlanteans to the recently aquired GMN fleet from the Grampian fleet in Aberdeen for training purposes and the first to arrive is pictured in Atherton depot having just completed it's epic journey south.
As well as two native Standards, a former Kelvin Central Alexander Y Type bodied Leyland Leopard can be seen which was also meant for training. This was to replace the Ford coach used for manual upgrades but was never used at Manchester, the furthest it ever moved was the various locations around the depot to shift it from 'under the feet'. It would later disappear never to be seen again. The rear domeof one of the five Alexander 'Panoramic' bodied Atlanteans that arrived from Glasgow but never saw service can just be glimpsed behind the Leopard.
The Atlantean would later be painted allover white for training purposes and gained the fleetnumber 1423.
Baton Rouge Police Department, Louisiana
Dodge Magnum
Vehicle #1269
Honor Guard Unit
Picture Date: 05/12/2010
A Baton Rouge PD, Louisiana Dodge Magnum sits parked in Washington D.C. during Police Week 2010. This vehicle is used by their Honor Guard.
A rather strange vehicle to be painted into the NATIONAL white coach livery, was this East Kent Marshall AEC Swift. These Swifts were used on a shuttle service between Dover Priory station and Dover docks. Now then, here is a puzzle, why these Swifts were painted into the NATIONAL white livery is difficult to understand, when the NBC manual states that only front line coaches would wear the NATIONAL coach livery. Now here is another interesting twist, after doing some further research, RJG 201/3/7G were converted to a dual door layour B44D and 18 standing passengers in 1979, at this stage they were painted into the Sealink livery. The AEC Swift was introduced during 1964 and the chassis frame was based on that of the Leyland Panther. Two engine types were offered the AEC AH505 or AH691 units, the Swift was offered for 33ft or 36ft overall length bodywork. A special version of the Swift was developed for London Transport called the Merlin. Like most of the first generation rear-engined single deck chassis, the Swift and Merlin suffered from problems. The only rear-engined single deck chassis from the British Leyland stable, that did not suffer that many problems, was the Bristol RE, what did BL do? yes kill it off.
I have never seen a Quantum before. A nice car. It's Ford Fiesta based. The owner was in the car when I took this photo. Seen in the Brooklands car park.
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The vehicle details for E830 KPG are:
Date of Liability01 11 2013
Date of First Registration14 10 1988
Year of Manufacture1988
Cylinder Capacity (cc)1905cc
CO2 EmissionsNot Available
Fuel TypePETROL
Export MarkerN
Vehicle StatusLicence Not Due
Vehicle ColourCREAM
The Panzer III was conceived in 1934 as the principal combat tank of the German Army's Panzer divisions. Armed with a high-velocity 37mm gun that fired armour-piercing projectiles, it was complemented by a support tank, the heavier Panzer IV with a short 75mm gun.
Production started in 1937 with the Ausfuhrung, (abbreviation Aus, meaning version), A. The Aus B, C and D versions were produced in small numbers and saw combat in Poland in September 1939. Experience in Poland and France showed that the original 37mm gun was ineffective against the most heavily armoured tanks and from July 1940 the Aus G mounted a short 50mm gun.
Combat against Soviet T-34 and KV tanks during Operation Barbarossa revealed that the Panzer III was both insufficiently armoured and still under-gunned. The Aus J introduced 50mm armour (compared to 30mm on the earlier models) and the long 50mm gun. The Aus L was introduced in June 1942 and a total of 653 were manufactured before it was superseded by the Aus M in December 1942.
Features of the Aus L include even thicker armour on the turret front as well as spaced armour on the gun mantlet and superstructure front. The Tank Museum’s example is an early production Aus L, modified for ‘tropical’ service. It was shipped from Nuremburg via Naples to Benghazi in Libya, arriving on the SS Lerica on 18 July 1942. It was issued to the 8th Panzer Regiment, part of the 15th Panzer Division and probably fought in the Battle of Alam Halfa. It was subsequently captured by the British Army and shipped to the UK.
The Museum’s staff have restored the tank to running order, have repainted it in its original camouflage and markings and are currently replacing many of the ancillary tools and equipment that it carried. The Panzer III was the backbone of the German armoured divisions between mid-1940 and mid-1942.
By 1942 it was clearly outclassed by the latest Soviet tanks and it was superseded in this role by the larger Panzer IV, armed with a high velocity 75mm gun. Some 6,140 Panzer IIIs were built, with production ending in August 1943. However, the chassis continued in production until 1945 as the basis of the Sturmgeschutze III assault gun. Panzer IIIs were also converted into armoured recovery vehicles, command tanks and artillery observation vehicles.
D.C. Metropolitan Police Department
Ford Galaxie
Vehicle #601
Picture Date: 05/14/2014
This historic MPDC Ford Galaxie participated in the parade during Police Week 2014.
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Morris/BL Ital van EST448X (first registered September 1981)- location FORT WILLIAM circa 1982.
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 elderly 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.
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.
E202437 Radiological Emergency Response Vehicle Department of Energy DOE US Government Radiological Assistance Program RAP Nuclear Emergency response team NEST spotted in Burlington Vermont 23rd October 2012
Because wading on a canvas boat can be as hard as gymnastics ;)
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Well travelled Olympians - these elderly vehicles have transferred from Transdev's Lancashire fleets for schools work, replacing some of Harrogate & District's (considerably younger) Dennis Javelins, one of which is just visible behind G281UMJ. Also just visible at right is celebrity F96PRE, which latterly carried a bonkers but brilliant version of Burnley & Pendle's 'Starship' livery - it had been my favourite Burnley & Pendle vehicle. The displaced Javelins have gone to storage in Blackburn.
London United RATP Group ADH8, SN60BYC - Route 94 | Old Cavendish Street with a Piccadilly Circus Bound Service.
Wednesday 27th August 2014
© London Transport3 / Mark Mcwalter 2014
Following our whirlwind tour of suburban Cleveland, we were on the road again to visit Pittsburgh. Suddenly we came across a convoy of classic American cars. They must be heading to a summer vintage car show/ rally somewhere.
This was taken still in Ohio state.
89Q, now preserved and owned by London Transport. It is seen here at East Anglia Transport Museum on a visit for the London Event to commemorate the 50th year since trolleybuses, and the 60th year since trams, ran in London.
THIS LINK SHOWS A SIMILAR VEHICLE IN ACTION.
89Q, DGJ 181 - AEC Mercury 4 ton Tower Wagon. In LT service - 10/36 - 10/62
Information from SUP 15 London Transport Service Vehicles, Compiled by Julian Bowden-Green.
Details of the two behind:-
London Trolleybus 1201 - EXV 201 - 1938.
K2 Leyland Chassis & Body.
London Trolleybus 260 - CUL 260 - 1936.
Class C2
AEC Chassis/MCCW Body
English Electric Motor & Controller
Both owned by London Trolleybus Preservation Society, normally based at EATM.
Sanitation, waste collection, trash, rubbish, refuse vehicle with a UHE body photographed in the Nepean sector of town.
Thankfully Health and Safety should not allow such things to happen these days. The men have climbed out of the back window of the trolleybus to get access to the booms. Falling from these heights would not be much fun.
These are the same 2 vehicles as in the previous shot in my stream, but I am a bit mystified how the change in angle has so much changed the situation. It is almost as though the two vehicles have moved. Also the spare wheel on the lorry is not seen on the previous shot.
Photographer unknown
Any further information welcome.
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Greater Manchester Police. Land Rover Discovery, MX58 UYR ARV (Armed Response Vehicle) seen at Openshaw Workshop Complex.
Beautiful vehicle, which I'm sure some of you will be able to identify, at Larne, Co. Antrim.
Thanks to Niall McAuley, we now have an exact location for this photo on Chaine Memorial Road, right opposite the Chaine Memorial, a lighthouse replica of an Irish Round Tower erected in memory of James Chaine, a former M.P. for Larne...
One of our NLI Facebook people has identified the gentleman with the impressive moustache in the front seat as Larne hotelier, Henry McNeill, and also reports that this vehicle was said to be Larne's first motor vehicle. We came across McNeill's Hotel in Larne before...
Following much discussion below on the make and model of the car, the final word has gone to Bob Montgomery 2012, and this is definitely a Daimler Wagonette, circa 1899/1900.
Date: 1899
NLI Ref.: L_ROY_06169
Greater Manchester Transport Daimler Fleetline 7162 has a registration number that would be more suitable on an emergency vehicle than on a bus! Way back before the days of the DVLC (as they were then) had the money making idea of retaining numbers 1 - 20 and multiple numbers for private sale they were just issued as and when. No doubt if WBN999L went on sale today it would raise quite a few shillings for the DVLA.
What is unusual with this Bury based Park Royal bodied Standard is that the front panel has been replaced at some point with a front from one of the prototype standards, of which a number were based at Bury. If one looks at the position of the registration plate it is fitted flat on the panel. Production standards had the registration plate positioned on a raised section of the fibreglass moulding so this one has had a swap with a prototype at some point.
Anyway, enough of the trivia : the location is the out of service park at Bury Interchange in February 1984 with the bus still wearing the original SELNEC designed livery, albeit with a darker shade of orange. At this time most of the rest of the batch would be in the revised brown skirted scheme introduced in 1980. One of those wonderfull Austin Allegro (All Agro) dustbins can be seen in the background.