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28/05/2015. Dennis Trident LK03 GHG is seen here in Nelson bound for the Urdd Eisteddfod at Llanciach Fawr.
Although N.A.T Group won the contract to operate the Park & Ride services to the youth festival, they chose to sub-contract it to both Watts and D.J. Thomas.
Ex Metroline TP447.
I drove this Scania a fair bit back at Watts Waste, got behind the wheel at all different hours and took it through all areas of Sydney. It was used primarily for general waste, but it also did paper and cardboard during the last number of years. The actual Superior Pak body of this truck didn’t have the hardest life compared to others, although the arms were subject to some damn heavy bins and that hopper floor got hammered with a lot of timber. The drive train on this truck busted it’s balls but, hauling heavy loads of garbage all across Sydney to scattered jobs or distant tip sites. I don’t know how the engine got this truck moving sometimes, had a very sluggish take-off and totally died in the arse on any hill empty or full. The life simply got sucked out of this vehicle and it got pushed 7 days a week and often 24 hours Monday to Friday. About a month after I left the place for good the engine went bang and that was the last of it - RIP Scania. This front-lift became a real money pit in the end, lots of breakdowns and patch up jobs to try and keep it going..... boss couldn’t get through his head there comes a time when trucks should be retired! I still enjoyed driving this machine but, was pretty good when it worked - quick lifts and pack cycles, squashed a good load and sounded mean. I felt like a king taking this monster through the city on a Saturday night! hehe Here’s a shot of the old beast in action a couple of years ago emptying 1 of 4 bins the company used to have at Auburn Megamall.
Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats, are coastal wetlands that form when mud is deposited by tides or rivers. They are found in sheltered areas such as bays, bayous, lagoons, and estuaries. Mudflats may be viewed geologically as exposed layers of bay mud, resulting from deposition of estuarine silts, clays and marine animal detritus. Most of the sediment within a mudflat is within the intertidal zone, and thus the flat is submerged and exposed approximately twice daily.
Here are two of the old Watts rear loaders parked up at the Smithfield yard together, BK on the left and YWR on the right. As much as they look quite similar, they were two completely different trucks to experience. YWR was a 1996 model which wasn’t my favourite truck to use, but it still got the job done. I’m honestly not entirely sure where this one originated too, though it might have come around as part of the Waste Resources acquisition. On the other hand 2001 model BK was a champion truck to do a run in, probably capable of dominating any new Aussie RL out there. None of the four of these had an International, Iveco or ACCO badge on them either, but that didn’t stop them from looking mean and having their quick individual telltales. The truck on the right was actually the first ACCO I drove since getting my HR licence too, which was a very exciting morning, but that enjoyment didn’t continue long term :D I was spitting nails too, because management promised to give me the left truck to use on my old paper and cardboard run, so I got all pumped and over the moon about it, just to find out they told me a fat lie..... “We were never going to give you a bogie to do your run!” as the news was broken to me. Arseholes. Both these trucks are still on the road too, only now they work for Remondis since the buy-out.
One of the only trucks of its kind in the Watts Waste fleet, and maybe not the single Freightliner FL80 they ran, but it was definitely the only 4x2 with an MJE JP6 body! I was told this 1995 model was the spare truck for the old Mosman contract, so held up well for many years and continued into the company C&I operations. I used it mainly when covering the retirement village run it finished up on, seen here sneaking around one residential area early and as quietly as you could be with this Cummins beast!
© I m a g e D a v e F o r b e s
Engagement 2,800+
Maintenance Period at James Watt Dock Greenock 2011
NO RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE
In Sept 2006 Calmac began a 7-day-a-week service much to the total distain of some religious quarters in some of the Western Isles who were still "observed the Sabbath" but the end of the world didn't come!!
The ferry is a larger variant of the company's 'Loch Class' with her own unique design. She is pictured down on the Clyde within the confines of James Watt Dock having just came out of dry dock for her annual MCA inspection in 2011.
Named after a loch in North Uist
IMO 9274824
May 11, 2016: Watts Towers 2016. I started out with #silhouette image of the towers and used photogene bleach, snapseed lens blur 15, vintage #2 35%; photocopier Braque color 45 and rippix 06 In blender combined the last two steps in 50% normal. In artistaimpresso used center detail with artist finish 40% #9. In tangledfx used custom sharpening. In formulas used daybreak 60% and ink splatter border 15. #wattstowers #artistry_flair #retro #americana #textures #texture #losangel
Watts Tourismo BF16 XPH loads up on Brunel St, Birmingham, whilst on a Megabus M15 service from Bradford to London Victoria, standing in for the usual Elite-i.
Vehicle Details:
Operator: Watts Coaches
Registration: BF16 XPH
Vehicle Type: Mercedes-Benz Tourismo
Zwischen Toori und Schrein
Rechts vom Bild ist auch auch ein Teil des Schreins. Aus irgendeinem Grund habe ich den Teil nicht mit aufgenommen.
Mit auflaufendem Wasser begaben sich die Touristen wieder zurück zum Schrein. Um die Reiher zu fotografieren, tat ich genau das Gegenteil. Allerdings kehrte ich nach den Fotos auch wieder zurück an Land.
Watts Coaches, Bonvilston, VDL Futura 2 WJ20 EDF in Shearings livery in Brighton this afternoon, 27th July, 2022.
Snowed for hours overnight, and as it fell onto frost-hard ground, a carpet formed quickly. It stuck to all the trees too - and still looked magical this morning.
This is the main path through the meadow - still a white track - and you can just see a snowman to the right of it.
Visitors to Windsor Coach Park in April 2018 included Watts Coaches of Bonvilston Volvo B9R / Jonckheere JHV C53FT BN64CNJ.
Illinois Prairie Path, Main Stem, Liberty Street, Downtown Wheaton
Olympus E-500, Olympus 18-180, ISO 100, f/5.6, 47mm, 1/160s
From Wikipedia ...
May Theilgaard Watts (1893 – 20 August, 1975) was an American writer, illustrator, and teacher.
Watts was the daughter of Danish immigrants. She grew up in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, but began a teaching career in a one-room schoolhouse outside of the city. She attended college during the summer at the University of Chicago, where she studied botany and ecology with Henry Chandler Cowles. Watts graduated in 1918 as a Phi Beta Kappa.
As a scientist, Watts worked at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, as a staff naturalist. She produced scientific studies as well as flower and tree identification guides. She retired in 1961.
While working at the arboretum, she authored several books and guides that helped non-scientists to interpret the landscape. Her 1957 Reading the Landscape was among the most widely read and used for decades by educators. Watts described places ranging from backyard gardens to the Indiana Dunes to the Rocky Mountain timberline. She wrote a similar volume, Reading the Landscape of Europe. She extended her knowledge of the natural world to the public in a column written for the Chicago Tribune, and had an educational horticulture program on public television.
Watts also led efforts to establish the Illinois Prairie Path on an abandoned railroad line. Inspired by the public footpaths of Britain and by the Appalachian Trail in the eastern United States, she believed Midwestern residents needed similar recreational trails. Her 1963 letter-to-the-editor of the Chicago Tribune warned that “bulldozers are drooling” and rapid action needed to be taken. She was honored at the 1971 dedication ceremony.
She has had the May T. Watts Nature Park in Highland Park, Illinois, and the May Watts Elementary School in Naperville, Illinois, named after her.
Her house in Highland Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The architect for the house was John S. Van Bergen and the landscape architect was Jens Jensen.