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The final stage of my car re-shuffle this year; changing the Insignia.

I was going to change this one later in the year, but had noted its part exchange value was dropping rather quickly and with a service and MOT due in December, it seemed like a better idea to do it sooner.

I was also intending to change it for a current shape Insignia, but looking around they were still a bit more than I was wanting to spend, plus 90% of the time we weren't using the full boot capacity of the Insignia. So I started looking at Astras again, the values of which had come down nicely.

I decided on a 1.6 Turbo 200 as a nice balance between sensible family car and something with a bit of performance. I also wanted a red one! So I set my Auto Trader search and kept an eye out over a few weeks, until one appeared at a very competitive price in St Helens on account of its slightly above average mileage.

We drove out in the Insignia to have a look, decided to take the plunge and drove back in the Astra a couple of hours later. The dealer (Lookers) were very helpful, sensible in their price negotiations with us and went out of their way to help us take the car the same day, avoiding the additional time/cost of having to come back for it a few days later. In fact they were much better than the large Vauxhall dealer group we have in Leeds... who I've purchased two cars from previously and were the polar opposite of what we experienced with Lookers. It certainly made up for having to travel a bit further to get the car we wanted!

I've not seen the Insignia re-appear on Auto Trader yet, presumably it's going through the auction system currently.

The Jaguar E-Type, or the Jaguar XK-E for the North American market, is a British front mid-engined sports car that was manufactured by Jaguar Cars Ltd from 1961 to 1974. Its sleek appearance, advanced technologies, high performance, and competitive pricing established it as an icon. The E-Type's claimed 150 miles per hour (240 km/h) top speed,[4] sub-7-second 0 to 60 mph (97 km/h) acceleration, largely unitary body construction, front and rear independent suspension with disc brakes, mounted inboard at the rear, and rack-and-pinion steering spurred industry-wide changes.[5]

The E-Type was based on Jaguar's D-Type racing car, which had won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for three consecutive years beginning in 1955.[6]

The E-Type employed what was, for the early 1960s, a novel design principle, with a front subframe carrying the engine, front suspension and front bodywork bolted directly to the body tub. No ladder frame chassis, as was common at the time, was needed and as such the first cars weighed only 1,315 kg (2,899 lb).[7]

It is rumored that, on its debut on 15 March 1961,[4] Enzo Ferrari called it "the most beautiful car ever made", but this statement is not fully confirmed.[8] In 2004, Sports Car International magazine placed the E-Type at number one on their list of Top Sports Cars of the 1960s.[9] In March 2008, the Jaguar E-Type ranked first in The Daily Telegraph's online list of the world's "100 most beautiful cars" of all time.[10]

Overview

E-Type Series 1 coupé 1964

E-Type Series 1 OTS 1967

The E-Type was introduced as a rear-wheel drive grand tourer in two-seater coupé form (FHC or Fixed Head Coupé) and as a two-seater convertible (OTS or Open Two Seater). A "2+2" four-seater version of the coupé, with a lengthened wheelbase, was released in 1966.

Later model updates of the E-Type were officially designated "Series 2" and "Series 3", and over time the earlier cars have come to be referred to as "Series 1." As with other partly hand made cars of the time, changes were incremental and ongoing, which has led to confusion over exactly what a Series 1 car is. This is of more than academic interest, as Series 1 E-Types—and particularly Series 1 roadsters—often have values in excess of Series 2 and 3 models.[11]

The Series 1 cars essentially fall into two categories: Those made between 1961 and 1964, which had 3.8-litre engines and (on all but the very last cars) partial synchromesh transmissions; and those made between 1965 and 1967, which increased engine size and torque by around 10% to 4.2 litres, and also provided new reclining seats, an alternator in place of the dynamo, an electrical system switched to negative earth, a more reliable brake servo,[12] and other modern amenities. Styling was unchanged.[5][13]

E-Type Jag 4.2-litre engine

E-Type Series 1 roadster interior, 1962

As a result, the 4.2-litre Type 1 generally became the most valuable form of the car.[14] However, as of the end of 2014, the most expensive regular production Jaguar E-Types sold at auction included a 4.2-litre Series 1 roadster, with matching numbers, original paint and interior, under 80,000 mi (130,000 km) since new, and a history of being in the original buyer's family for 45 years, for $467,000 in 2013,[15] and a 3.8-litre 1961 "flat floor"[clarification needed] Series 1, for $528,000 in 2014.[16] Special run racing lightweights go for far more still. For example, a 1963 E-type Lightweight Competition advertised as very original and with much patina (wearing the "factory installed interior and bodywork showing the patina of decades of use," although it was re-painted and has a non-matching numbers - albeit factory provided - engine), one of just twelve that were built, sold for $7,370,000 at the 2017 Scottsdale, Arizona auctions.[17][18]

Being a British-made car of the 1960s, there are some rather rare sub-types of Series 1 E-Types, particularly at the beginning and end of the Series 1 production. For example, the first 500 Series 1 cars had flat floors and external bonnet latches.[19] At the close of the Series 1 production run, there were a small number of cars produced that are identical in every respect to other Series 1 units (including triple SU carbs, button actuated starter, toggle switches, etc.), except that the headlight covers were removed for better illumination. It is not known exactly how many of these Series 1 cars (sometimes referred to as for convenience sake as "Series 1.25," but per Jaguar, Series 1) were produced, but given that 1,508 Series 1 convertibles were produced worldwide for 1967, combined with the fact that these examples were made in just the last several months of Series 1 production, means that these, like the flat floor examples that began the Series 1 production run, are the lowest volume Series 1 variant, save of course for the special lightweights.[20]

Including both left and right hand drive examples, a total of 7,828 3.8-litre Series 1 open two seaters (OTS) were built, with 6,749 of the later 4.2-litre Series 1 OTS's having been manufactured.[20][21]

While the 1968 Series 1.5 cars maintained the essential design of the Series 1 models, US emission regulations saw its triple SU carburettors replaced there with twin Zenith-Stromberg units, resulting in a drop in claimed power from 265 to 246 hp (198 to 183 kW) and torque from 283 to 263 lb⋅ft (384 to 357 N⋅m).[22]

Of the "Series 1" cars, Jaguar manufactured some limited-edition variants, inspired by motor racing:

The "'Lightweight' E-Type" initiated and designed for competition was intended as a racing follow-up to the D-Type. Jaguar planned to produce 18 units but ultimately only a dozen were reportedly built. Of those, two have been converted to low drag form and two others are known to have been crashed and deemed to be beyond repair, although one has now been rebuilt. These are exceedingly rare and sought after by collectors. *The "Low Drag Coupé" was a one-off technical exercise which was ultimately sold to a Jaguar racing driver. It is presently believed to be part of the private collection of the current Viscount Cowdray. In 2014, Jaguar announced its intention to build the remaining six lightweights, at a cost of approximately £1 million each.[23]

Safety and emissions regulations in the North American market resulted in Series 2 and 3 E-Types being fitted with a larger grille, wider wheel arches, and bigger bumpers. And they were also fitted with a bigger radiator and cooling system because the Series 1 were notorious for overheating[24]

The New York City Museum of Modern Art recognised the significance of the E-Type's design in 1996 by adding a blue roadster to its permanent design collection, one of only six automobiles to receive the distinction.[25] The MoMA XKE is a Series 1 OTS.[26]

Jaguar Mk.IX (1959-61) Engine 3781cc S6 DOC Production 10.009

Registration Number 1670 JW (Wolverhampton)

JAGUAR SET

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Powered by the 220bhp version of the 3.8ltr. engine, the Mk.IX was the last of the big separate chassis saloons, plus all disc brakes and power assisted steering. Choice of manual or automatic transmissions, but more automatics..

In the luxury car market, the Jaguar Mk IX was very competitively priced, selling for ₤1995 with manual gearbox, ₤2063 with overdrive, and ₤2163 with automatic transmission, which was less than half the price of similar competitors.

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Tea-Clipper Cutty Sark, Greenwich. Showing the underwater viewing galleries built around the World Class Sailing Ship which surely must be the Country's or World's finest viewing gallery of a capital preserved ship.

Photograph Copyright: Digital Expression UK (2021)

OVERVIEW

Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of design development, which halted as sailing ships gave way to steam propulsion.

The opening of the Suez Canal (also in 1869) meant that steamships now enjoyed a much shorter route to China, so Cutty Sark spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, where she held the record time to Britain for ten years. Improvements in steam technology meant that gradually steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to Australia, and the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895 and renamed Ferreira. She continued as a cargo ship until purchased in 1922 by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman, who used her as a training ship operating from Falmouth, Cornwall. After his death, Cutty Sark was transferred to the Thames Nautical Training College, Greenhithe in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. By 1954, she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London, for public display.

Cutty Sark is listed by National Historic Ships as part of the National Historic Fleet (the nautical equivalent of a Grade 1 Listed Building). She is one of only three remaining original composite construction (wooden hull on an iron frame) clipper ships from the nineteenth century in part or whole, the others being the City of Adelaide, which arrived in Port Adelaide, South Australia on 3 February 2014 for preservation, and the beached skeleton of Ambassador of 1869 near Punta Arenas, Chile.

The ship has been damaged by fire twice in recent years, first on 21 May 2007 while undergoing conservation. She was restored and was reopened to the public on 25 April 2012. On 19 October 2014 she was damaged in a smaller fire.

Cutty Sark whisky derives its name from the ship. An image of the clipper appears on the label, and the maker formerly sponsored the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race. The ship also inspired the name of the Saunders Roe Cutty Sark flying boat.

CONSTRUCTION

Cutty Sark was ordered by shipping magnate John Willis, who operated a shipping company founded by his father. The company had a fleet of clippers and regularly took part in the tea trade from China to Britain. Speed was a clear advantage to a merchant ship, but it also created prestige for the owners: the 'tea race' was widely reported in contemporary newspapers and had become something of a national sporting event, with money being gambled against a winning ship. In earlier years, Willis had commanded his father's ships at a time when American designed ships were the fastest in the tea trade, and then had owned British designed ships, which were amongst the best available in the world but had never won the tea race. In 1868 the brand new Aberdeen built clipper Thermopylae set a record time of 61 days port to port on her maiden voyage from London to Melbourne and it was this design that Willis set out to better.

It is uncertain how the hull shape for Cutty Sark was chosen. Willis chose Hercules Linton to design and build the ship but Willis already possessed another ship, The Tweed, which he considered to have exceptional performance. The Tweed (originally Punjaub) was a frigate designed by Oliver Lang based on the lines of an old French frigate, built in Bombay for the East India Company as a combination sail/paddle steamer. She and a sister ship were purchased by Willis, who promptly sold the second ship plus engines from The Tweed for more than he paid for both. The Tweed was then lengthened and operated as a fast sailing vessel, but was considered too big for the tea runs. Willis also commissioned two all-iron clippers with designs based upon The Tweed, Hallowe'en and Blackadder. Linton was taken to view The Tweed in dry dock.

Willis considered that The Tweed's bow shape was responsible for its notable performance, and this form seems to have been adopted for Cutty Sark. Linton, however, felt that the stern was too barrel shaped and so gave Cutty Sark a squarer stern with less tumblehome. The broader stern increased the buoyancy of the ship's stern, making it lift more in heavy seas so it was less likely that waves would break over the stern, and over the helmsman at the wheel. The square bilge was carried forward through the centre of the ship. Cutty Sark was given masts that followed the design of The Tweed, with similar good rake and the foremast on both placed further aft than usual.

A contract for Cutty Sark's construction was signed on 1 February 1869 with the firm of Scott & Linton, which had only been formed in May 1868. Their shipyard was at Dumbarton on the River Leven on a site previously occupied by shipbuilders William Denny & Brothers. The contract required the ship to be completed within six months at a contracted price of £17 per ton and maximum weight of 950 tons. This was a highly competitive price for an experimental, state-of-the-art vessel, and for a customer requiring the highest standards. Payment would be made in seven instalments as the ship progressed, but with a penalty of £5 for every day the ship was late. The ship was to be built to Lloyd's A1 standard and her construction was supervised on behalf of Willis by Captain George Moodie, who would command her when completed. Construction delays occurred when the Lloyd's inspectors required additional strengthening in the ship.

Work on the ship was suspended when Scott and Linton ran out of money to continue. Rather than simply liquidate the company, an arrangement was made for Denny's to take over the contract and complete the ship, which was finally launched on 22 November 1869 by Captain Moodie's wife. The ship was moved to Denny's yard to have her masts fitted, and then on 20 December towed downriver to Greenock to have her running rigging installed. In the event, completing the ship meant the company's creditors were owed even more money than when work had first been halted.

Cutty Sark's length was 212 feet 5 inches (64.74 m), with a draft of 21 feet (6.40 m) and a deadweight of 921 tons.Broadly, the parts of the ship visible above the waterline were constructed from East India teak, while American rock elm was used for the ship's bottom. The stem (15 in × 15 in (38 cm × 38 cm)) and sternpost (16.5 in × 15 in (42 cm × 38 cm)) were of teak while the rudder was of English oak. The keel was replaced in the 1920s with one constructed from 15 in (38 cm) pitch pine. The deck was made of 3.5 in (8.9 cm) thick teak while the 'tween deck was 3 in (7.6 cm) yellow pine. The keel (16.5 in × 15 in (42 cm × 38 cm)) had on either side a garboard strake (11 in × 12 in (28 cm × 30 cm)) and then 6 in (15 cm) planking decreasing to 4.75 in (12.1 cm) at 1/5 the depth of the hold. Teak planking began at approximately the level of the bilge stringer. The hull was covered by Muntz metal sheeting up to the 18 ft (5.5 m) depth mark, and all the external timbers were secured by Muntz metal bolts to the internal iron frame. The wrought-iron frame was an innovation in shipbuilding. It consisted of frames (vertical), beams (horizontal) and cross bracing (diagonal members).

The diagonally-braced iron frame made for a strong, rigid ship; diagonal members prevent racking (shearing, where frame rectangles become parallelograms). Less working and leaking of the hull meant less crew time spent pumping, allowing more time to be spent on changes of sail.[citation needed] The wrought-iron-framed hull also took up less cargo space than an all-wood hull would have done. The Muntz metal sheeting reduced fouling of Cutty Sark's hull; with a cleaner hull, she could sail faster.

The Fiat 500, commonly known as "Topolino", is an Italian city car produced and manufactured by Fiat from 1936 to 1955.

The name "Topolino" translates literally as "little mouse" in Italian, but is also the Italian name for Mickey Mouse.

The Topolino was one of the smallest cars in the world at the time of its production. Launched in 1937, three models were produced until 1955, all with only minor mechanical and cosmetic changes. It was equipped with a 569 cc four-cylinder, side-valve, water-cooled engine mounted in front of the front axle, (later an overhead valve motor) and so was a full-scale car rather than a cyclecar. The radiator was located behind the engine which made possible a lowered aerodynamic nose profile at a time when competitors had a flat, nearly vertical grille. The shape of the car's front allowed exceptional forward visibility.

Rear suspension initially used quarter-elliptic rear springs, but buyers frequently squeezed four or five people into the nominally two-seater car, and in later models the chassis was extended at the rear to allow for more robust semi-elliptic springs.

With horsepower of about 13 bhp, its top speed was about 53 mph (85 km/h), and it could achieve about 39.2 miles per US gallon (6.00 L/100 km; 47.1 mpg-imp). The target price given when the car was planned was 5,000 lire. In the event the price at launch was 9,750 lire, though the decade was one of falling prices in several part of Europe and later in the 1930s the Topolino was sold for about 8,900 lire. Despite being more expensive than first envisioned, the car was competitively priced. Nearly 520,000 were sold.

Three models were produced. Model A and B shared the same body, only the engine of model B had 16 hp, vs. 13 hp of Model A. Model A was produced from 1937 to 1948, while B was produced in 1948 and 1949. Model A was offered as a 2-door coupé, 2-door cabriolet and a 2-door van, while Model B also introduced a 3-door estate under the name 500 B Giardinetta ("estate car"). Model C was introduced in 1949 with a restyled body and the same engine as Model B, and was offered in 2-door coupé, 2-door cabriolet, 3-door estate and 2-door van versions. In 1952, Giardinetta was renamed Belvedere ("A turret or other raised structure offering a pleasant view of the surrounding area", referring to its sunroof). Model C was produced until 1955.

In 1955 the larger rear-wheel-drive Fiat 600 was launched by Fiat and that would become the design basis for the new Fiat 500, the Nuova 500.

The 500A is known to be hot rodded, once the car came to America. It was mostly hot rodded to a dragster, or a street rod.

This little FIAT 500 Topolino is certainly the smallest miniland-scale car I have ever built, 7-wide and 17.5 stud long. Nonetheless, the car has rear beam axle suspension and opening engine cover and doors.

[Text from Wikipedia]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_500_%22Topolino%22

This Lego miniland-scale 1947 FIAT 500 Topolino has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 103rd Build Challenge, titled - 'The Fabulous Forties!' - a challenge for any vehicle produced through the decade of the 1940s.

This hotel was built in the 1920's and must have been a beauty in those days. Located in one of the most beautiful places around and it still has it's grace. It was very popular back in the days and a lot of wealthy and royal visiters booked a night in here.

Unfortunately it had to close in the 1960's and nobody knows what to do with this beautiful but detriorated building. Well, almost nobody except us...

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I have a sabbatical starting in January, giving me a couple of months off work. During this time I'm thinking of doing something photography related. I haven't quite figured out what, but if any of you guys would be so kind to lend me your opinions, I'd be grateful.

So I'm thinking that I could write a book featuring all of my 365 photos. Probably showcasing some of the better ones and a place where I could elaborate on some of the quirky stories, or maybe talk more about camera and lighting setups - maybe both.

The thing is, all of the self publishing routes using services like Blurb and Lulu are great and all that, but the end result is a book that would cost any potential purchaser quite a chunk of cash - especially compared to any nice big glossy book you could buy from Amazon. Would any of you realistically ever spend £40 on some crazy ramblings from me? My hunch is that even if you like my stuff, you'd not buy it at the price those companies charge. Great for making presents for your family, not so good for making competitively priced books for a wider audience

I could try going down the real publishing route, but that sounds a long and painful road to take, but the reward might be a book that would cost a whole chunk less and could be physically available in book shops. Chances of any real publisher ever taking me on board is pretty slim though...

Maybe I should consider knocking together an iPad application and sticking it in the App store? Huge benefit here is that the cost to the customer would be peanuts and the whole thing could be interactive and stuff. But how many people have iPads? And even if you have got one, do you buy apps or just go for the free stuff?

Or maybe I could put together a PDF, build a website and try and hook it into a shopping cart?

I could try and sell some nice prints, but maybe my usual self portraiture type thing isn't what you really fancy hanging on your living room wall?

None of the above? Any of the above? Something I haven't even considered?

Would it all be pointless, or is there any realistic market for my slightly weird photos and inane stories?

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This hotel was built in the 1920's and must have been a beauty in those days. Located in one of the most beautiful places around and it still has it's grace. It was very popular back in the days and a lot of wealthy and royal visiters booked a night in here.

Unfortunately it had to close in the 1960's and nobody knows what to do with this beautiful but detriorated building. Well, almost nobody except us...

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If you are interested in some of my work then please contact me by personal message. I can offer you various a-class materials for competitive prices and worldwide shipping.

EUROPE: Designed to meet the crashworthiness requirements of EN 15227, Bombardier’s Talent 2 is the latest entrant in the competitive European market for regional EMUs. Dr Harry Hondius reports.

Formally unveiled at the InnoTrans 2008 fair in Berlin last September, Bombardier’s Talent 2 EMU is currently undergoing commissioning and acceptance trials before entering service with DB Regio in Germany.

Talent 2 is the latest in a series of new regional and suburban trainsets designed to meet the crashworthiness requirements of EN 15227. As such, it forms part of the second generation of EMUs to be designed by the manufacturers rather than the railway operators themselves. Talent 2’s main competitors are Alstom’s Coradia Continental, Siemens’ Desiro ML and Stadler’s Flirt designs.

Talent 2 has a strong heritage. The Talent 1 DMU was developed by Waggonfabrik Talbot in Aachen, just before Bombardier purchased the company in 1995. Unveiled in the spring of 1996, the regional diesel train was a completely new and striking design. Talent 1 proved very successful, with 223 diesel-mechanical and 63 diesel-electric sets built. In addition, 198 ‘Elektro Talent’ EMUs were built with Elin in Austria, of which 20 were for use in Hungary, making 484 trains in all.

Bombardier’s NINA EMUs for BLS have many similarities with Talent 1, including the Flex-Compact bogies, albeit with electrical equipment from Alstom; this family comprises 37 RABe525 S-Bahn sets and 13 RABe535 regional sets for the Lötschberg route. In Scandinavia Bombardier has delivered 90 Regina wide-bodied EMUs to Swedish operators. The company’s biggest success came in France, where 698 AGCs have been ordered along with 172 Spacium wide-bodied suburban EMUs for the Paris region. These two designs also use bogies from the Flex-Compact (formerly Wegmann) platform.

So why, with so many trains in production, has Bombardier developed another new design? Changing demands from operators and leasing companies and the new crashworthiness norms are the main reasons, along with the desire for greater flexibility to meet differing customer requirements over the lifetime of the train, especially regarding the number of doors and the entrance height.

Crashworthiness norms

From August 1 2008 any new rolling stock designs in the European Union must meet the crashworthiness requirements of EN 15277. These demand a survival space for the driver, and the train must remain structurally intact, safeguarding the passengers, in three specific scenarios:

* in a collision between two similar trains at 36 km/h,

* in a collision with a 90-tonne freight wagon at 36 km/h,

* in a collision on a level crossing with a 15 tonne lorry at 110 km/h.

Although the rules came into force in August there is provision for local safety authorities to allow a four-year transition period. So far the Dutch have taken the lead in demanding full application, with the latest Sprinter EMUs (RG 3.08 p180), 82 out of 437 GTW trainsets and the Protos EMUs all compliant. Alstom’s Coradia Nordic was also built to meet the crashworthiness criteria from its inception, but so far the Coradia Continental sets for DB do not (RG 5.08 p321). Whilst the ET 422 S-Bahn units are compliant, DB placed framework contracts in July 2008 for 120 Coradia Lint, 60 RegioShuttle and 60 Desiro Classic DMUs, which do not meet EN 15227; these will be ordered as and when DB Regio AG wins regional operating concessions.

Bombardier’s AGC and Spacium designs, as well as the Desiro ML from Siemens do meet the EN 15227 requirements. The NINA does not, nor do the 614 Flirts from Stadler, although a crashworthy Flirt variant has been prepared for future orders.

Among the second-generation competitors, Alstom has won orders for 150 Coradia Lirex Nordic and 141 Coradia Lirex Continental units, Siemens is supplying 17 Desiro Main Line EMUs in Germany and 305 for Belgium, and Stadler has 186 German orders out of 614 Flirts in total.

Framework contract

In February 2007 DB AG signed a framework agreement with Bombardier for Talent 2, providing for up to 321 trainsets to be supplied between May 2009 and December 31 2014. These will be converted to firm orders as and when DB wins regional or S-Bahn concessions which require new electric trainsets.

So far, firm orders have been placed for 76 sets:

* S-Bahn Nürnberg: 42 four-car sets of Class ET 442;

* Moselbahn, Koblenz – Trier/Perl: eight four-car and five two-car units;

* Cottbus – Leipzig: three four-car and three two-car units;

* Rhein-Sieg regional express, Aachen – Köln – Siegen: three three-car, 10 four-car and two five-car units.

This last order was valued at €60m, which equates to just €19 000/m²; this is a very competitive price indeed.

All-steel bodyshell

Developed in Hennigsdorf, Talent 2 is planned as a platform offering trainsets of two to six cars, varying from 40 m to 104 m in length (Fig 2). It is an all-steel welded car, with the bodies fabricated at Ceska Lipa. The principal concept behind Talent 2 is to offer the greatest operational flexibility terms of seating arrangements, toilets and door positions. The window panels have the same dimensions as the door panels, so that doorways can be added, or even removed, at a later date.

The end cars have entrances at 800 mm above rail. The floor height in the intermediate cars can vary depending on customer requirements. The option selected for the Nürnberg units was shown at InnoTrans: a small ramp links the floor at 695 mm above rail with the entrances at 773 mm. A Bode sliding step at 573 mm (Fig 3 left) serves 550 mm high platforms. An alternative arrangement (Fig 3 right) would have a ramp down from the 695 mm floor to a doorway at 598 mm, still only 50 mm higher than a 550 mm platform and a sliding step at 360 mm for lower platform heights.

To meet EN 15227, the end cars have hydraulic energy absorbers at two levels, in addition to the energy absorption qualities of the automatic Voith Scharfenberg coupler. A steel cage around the cab provides the survival space for the driver, enclosed by a GRP nose from Stratiform. Reinforcement of the articulations prevents damaging energy levels being transmitted to the inner coaches. The Hübner corrugated gangways provide an inter-car walkway 732 mm wide.

Talent 2 also runs on bogies from the Flex-Compact family like those used on AGC or Spacium which have H-frames with a degree of in-built flexibility. The primary suspension and axle guidance acts as a linkage to the axle boxes, connected to the frame via rubber bushes on the inner side and via steel primary springs with a vertical shock absorber on the outer side. Secondary suspension is by air springs, with rubber/metallic auxiliary springs on each side complemented by a vertical shock absorber, and two torsion anti-roll stabilizers, two yaw dampers and one horizontal damper. A central connection transmits traction and braking forces. Knorr electro-pneumatic wheel brakes act on 10 wheels, and spring-loaded parking brakes are applied to 12 wheels. One of the end bogies is equipped with electromagnetic track brakes and both end bogies have Delemon flange lubrication equipment.

A single pantograph feeds the electrical equipment which was designed at Västerås. Skoda asynchronous four-pole forced ventilated motors drive the two end bogies and the central articulation bogie. They have a maximum power of 505 kW and a continuous rating of 380 kW, with a maximum speed of 5 614 rev/min. The motors are fully suspended, and drive through a toothed coupling and 1:5·05 single-reduction Watteeuw gears which are suspended from the frame on one side and rest on the axle. Two-stage gearing is provided for the powered articulation bogie because of the limited space.

All of the equipment is mounted on the roof with the exception of the two transformers and the 110 V, 105 Ah batteries, which are slung under the floors of the end cars. The two transformers deliver 6 x 428 kVA. Each motored bogie has its own inverter, of which two include auxiliary inverters. A separate 500 W inverter feeds the 24 V DC circuit.

To meet DB Regio’s design requirements, the trains are fitted with Kiel’s Match type seats. The single-glazed windows come from Securit in Poland. Bode has also supplied the electrically operating sliding-plug doors. Because of EBA’s latest safety requirements, the closing of the doors is monitored by optical sensors in two dimensions and the doors are fitted with highly-sensitive rubber edging strips incorporating Mayser electronic sensors. The fully-accessible toilet compartment has a shell from Bahrain and fittings from Denmark.

Air-conditioning is provided on all vehicles. Each unit is rated at 2 900 m³/h when air is being recirculated, or 1 900 m³/h with fresh air. The end cars have provision for 31·75 kW of heating, compared with 33·4 kW for the intermediate vehicles, cooling rate for all cars is 27 kW. Warm air is fed into the saloons from below, cool air from the roof. The driving cabs are equipped with separate air-conditioning units, rated at 5·4 kW heating and 4·5 kW cooling. These can recirculate at 550 m³/h or add fresh air at 400m³/h. Overall train design is by Michel Sohn at Hennigsdorf.

A versatile family

Although we have not yet had the opportunity to sample the riding qualities of Talent 2, Bombardier seems to have made a serious effort to develop a largely-standardised steel-bodied trainset with the flexibility to deliver a variety of functional interior layouts without incurring heavy engineering costs. As well as the established Flex-Compact bogies, Talent 2 uses several elements that are well-proven in other DB series. The cab layout, for example, is identical to that of the Class ET 422 units.

In the private operator market, the closest competitor to Talent 2 is the Flirt, which does not yet meet EN 15227, is 1·8 m shorter, and carries 51 fewer passengers. The Flirt has 5·2% less power, and only four driven axles, but is 8·6% lighter.

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Scan of a 1947 Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Instruction Manual cover..

Located at 101 East Maple Street Canton, Ohio 44720 (at the intersection of Main Street and Maple).

From Wikipedia:

The Hoover Company started out as an American floor care manufacturer based in North Canton, Ohio. It also established a major base in the United Kingdom and for most of the early-and-mid-20th century, it dominated the electric vacuum cleaner industry, to the point where the "Hoover" brand name became synonymous with vacuum cleaners and vacuuming in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The Hoover Company in the United States was part of the Whirlpool Corporation but sold in 2006 to Techtronic Industries for $107 million. Hoover UK/Europe split from Hoover U.S. in 1993 and was acquired by Candy, a company based in Brugherio, Italy. It currently uses the same Hoover logo Techtronic uses outside Europe with the slogan "Generation Future".

In addition to floor care products Hoover was also an iconic domestic appliance brand in Europe particularly well known for its washing machines and tumble dryers in the UK and Ireland and, also had significant sales in many parts of Europe. Today, the Hoover Europe Brand, as part of the portfolio of brands owned by Candy Group, remains a major player in the European white goods and floor care sectors in a number of countries.

History;

The first upright vacuum was invented in 1908 by a Canton, Ohio department store janitor and occasional inventor named James Murray Spangler. Spangler suffered from asthma attacks, and he suspected the carpet sweeper he was using at work was the cause of his ailment. He created a basic suction-sweeper, first by adapting his existing carpet-sweeper with an electric fan motor, then creating his own prototype from a soap box, electric motor, broom handle, and pillow case. After refining the design and being granted a patent, he set about producing the 'Electric Suction Sweeper' himself. He was aided by his son, who helped him assemble the machines, and his daughter, who made the dust bags. Production was slow; he was completing just 2–3 machines a week.

Spangler then gave one of these Suction Sweepers to his cousin, Susan Hoover, who used it at her home. Impressed with the machine, she told her husband and son about it. William Henry "Boss" Hoover and son, Herbert W. Hoover, Sr., were leather-goods manufacturers in North Canton, which at the time was called New Berlin.[1] Hoover's leather goods business was threatened by the introduction of the motor car. Seeing in the Suction Sweeper a marketing opportunity, Hoover bought the patent from Spangler in 1908 and retained Spangler as company Superintendent, on royalties in the new business. Spangler continued to contribute to the company, patenting several further Suction Sweeper designs, before his death in 1915. His family continued to receive royalties from his original patent until 1925.

Faced with a total lack of interest by the public in his expensive and unfamiliar new gadget, Hoover placed an ad in the Saturday Evening Post offering customers 10 days free use of his vacuum cleaner to anyone who requested it. Using a network of local retailers to facilitate the offer, Hoover thus developed a national network of retailers for the vacuums. By the end of 1908, the company had sold 372 Model O's. By 1912, sales had been made to Norway, France, Russia, Belgium, Holland and Scotland.

In 1919, Gerald Page-Wood - an Art Director of Erwin, Wassey & Company, Hoover's advertising agency - came up with a succinct slogan which summed up The Hoover's cleaning action - 'It Beats...as it Sweeps...as it Cleans'. At this time, it referred to the action of the brushes from the brush roll, which tapped at the carpet and helped vibrate out the trodden-in grit. This offered an advantage over competitors machines, which used suction alone to remove dirt, and therefore were not as efficient as The Hoover. Seven years later, the famous slogan was to take on even more significance.

Hoover's business began to flourish, and, a year after Hoover acquired the patent from Spangler, he established a research and development department for his new business. By 1926, Hoover had perfected the 'beater bar' - a metal bar attached to the rotating brush-roll, situated in the floor nozzle cavity of the upright vacuum cleaner. Introduced on Models 543 and 700, the beater bar alternated with the sweeping brushes to vibrate dirt and grit trapped in carpets. It provided a more distinct 'tap' than the bristle tufts used on the former machines, and led to a 101% increase in efficiency. This cleaning action was marketed by Hoover as "Positive Agitation". 'It Beats...as it Sweeps...as it Cleans' rang more true now than ever.

Herbert W. Hoover, Sr. took over as president of the company in 1922 and as Chairman of the Board of the Hoover Company in 1932. In 1932, Hoover introduced a new feature - an optional headlamp, called the Hoover Hedlite, on Models 425, 750 and 900. By March 1932, it had become standard equipment on Models 750 and 900, and a $5 extra-cost option on Model 425. The Hoover Hedlite illuminated the floor ahead of the cleaner, useful for dimly-lit rooms and corridors, and under furniture. This feature brought in several new slogans, including 'It shows you the dirt you never knew you had!', and 'It lights where it's going...it's clean where it's gone!'.

Hoover filed another significant patent in 1936, this time for a new self-propelling mechanism for vacuum cleaners.

In 1954 Herbert W. Hoover Jr. took over the presidency of the company from his father.

In the late 1950s, the sombre and restrained colors of the previous decades gave way to bright, striking modern color-schemes. This was part of their policy of the continual development and modernization of their output.

In 1957 Hoover introduced the Convertible Model 65 (the De Luxe 652 in the UK). Designed again by Henry Dreyfuss, this cleaner introduced a feature Hoover termed 'Automatic Shift' - a system whereby the tool converter plugged into the rear of the cleaner. This wasn't a new idea - instant tool conversion for 'above-floor cleaning' had been introduced in 1935 with the Model 150 Cleaning Ensemble. However, new to Model 65 - and slightly later in Britain on the 652A - was the introduction of a switch which automatically shifted the motor to a higher speed as the converter was inserted. The Convertible - or the Senior, in Britain - remains Hoover's worldwide best-selling cleaner. Although the domestic line was finally discontinued in 1993, a version called the Guardsman is still available in the commercial sector.

1963 saw the introduction of the Dial-A-Matic in the US - sold in Australia as the Dynamatic, and in Britain, confusingly, as the Convertible. This was the first ever clean-air upright cleaner. The clean-air principle is similar to the flow of air through a cylinder/canister cleaner. Rather than the dirt passing directly through the suction fan and being blown into the bag, it passes through the bag first, leaving only clean air to pass through the fan. This principle was soon adopted by many manufacturers, and continues to be used today. Despite the Dial-A-Matic's improvement on vacuum cleaner design, it was heavy and expensive, and could not manage to outsell the popular Convertible line.

Hoover further refined the Dial-a-matic's design in 1969, when they launched the 'Powerdrive' self-propulsion system. This idea took a lot of the effort out of pushing the cleaner, because, by using a system of gears, belts and cables, the cleaner used its own power to drive itself forward and backwards, as directed by the user though the 'Triple-Action' handgrip. It was so efficient, the user could drive the heavy cleaner forward with a single finger. This extra technology made the Dial-A-Matic even heavier than the original, and at around $150, it was very expensive. The 'Powerdrive' system was carried over into the Concept range, which replaced the Dial-A-Matic line in 1978.

In 1986 the Hoover family sold the company. It was acquired by Maytag Corporation in 1989.

On Friday, 6 March 2009, Hoover confirmed that it was to cease production of washing machines and other laundry products at its Merthyr Tydfil factory, South Wales, UK from Saturday, 14 March 2009; giving the reason, the company stated that it could no longer manufacture competitively priced laundry products at the plant.

Hoover had initially announced its closure intentions on Tuesday, 18 November 2008, beginning a period of staff consultation. The company was established in the town over 60 years ago, its factory at Pentrebach, Merthyr Tydfil, opening on 12 October 1948.

Though 337 jobs will be lost because of this decision, Hoover UK anticipated retaining its Headquarters, logistics, storage and after sales service functions at the site, with some 113 workers retained.

Ownership Transitions:

The company was owned by the Hoover family until the 1940s, when it then became a publicly traded company. The company's stock was first traded on August 6, 1943. In 1985, the company was purchased by the Chicago Pacific Corporation, and in 1989, Chicago Pacific was purchased by Maytag.

In 1993, the Hoover Trading Company and Hoover UK merged to become the Hoover European Appliances Group. In 1995, Candy Group acquired the Hoover European Appliances Group in its entirety with the exclusive rights on the brand for the whole of Europe (including all territories of the former-Soviet Union), North Africa and selected countries in the Middle East.

In 2004, Maytag announced that it would consolidate its corporate office and back office operations in Newton, Iowa and close almost all of Hoover's overlapping functions. This effectively meant that most white-collar jobs at Hoover's North Canton location would be eliminated. The company had previously closed another manufacturing facility in Jackson Township, Stark County, Ohio, and the facility was sold to a church. Like many manufacturing companies in the U.S., Hoover is facing pressures as consumers demand lower-priced goods. Hoover has operations in Mexico, where operating costs are lower than in the U.S.

After Maytag was acquired by Whirlpool in 2006, that firm reached an agreement to sell Hoover to Hong Kong, China-based firm Techtronic Industries. TTI has announced its intention to close the original plant in North Canton in September 2007.

Slogans:

However clean, Hoover cleaner" - 1912

"Just run the Hoover over" - 1918

"A Hoovered home is as clean as it looks" - 1918

"Don't compromise with dirt. Have a Hoover." - 1918[6]

"It Beats...as it Sweeps...as it Cleans" - 1919

"It shows you the dirt you never knew you had" - 1932

"It lights where it's going...it's clean where it's gone" - 1935

"It Lights...as it Beats...as it Sweeps...as it Cleans" - 1935

"Give her a Hoover and you give her the best" - 1938

"You'll be happier with a Hoover" - 1948

"Hoover fine appliances around the house....around the world" - 1954

"Floorcare for people who care" - 1962

"Hoover helping you has made us a household word" - 1971

"Insist on Hoover" - 1974

"America trusts Hoover to take care of its homes" - 1977

"America trusts Hoover" - 1984

"Hoover keeps making it better" - 1986

"Hoover invented it" - 1988

"Nobody does it like You" - 1993, 2010

"Deep down you want Hoover" - 1998

"Hoover gets it" - 2004

"America loves its Hoovers" - 2007

"Hoover...Nobody Does it Like You" - 2008-Present

Renault Dauphine is a rear-engined economy car manufactured by Renault in one body style — a three-box, four-door sedan — as the successor to the Renault 4CV, with over two million examples marketed worldwide during its production from 1956-1967.

Along with such cars as the Volkswagen Beetle, Morris Minor and Fiat 500, the Dauphine pioneered the modern continental economy car.

Renault marketed variants of the Dauphine, including a sport model, the Gordini, a luxury version, the Ondine, the 1093 factory racing model, and the Caravelle/Floride, a Dauphine-based two-door convertible.

Opel Kadett - Original model (1937–1940)

The first Opel car to carry the Kadett name was presented to the public in December 1936 by Opel's Commercial-Technical director, Heinrich Nordhoff, who would in later decades become known for his leadership role in building up the Volkswagen company.

The new Kadett followed the innovative Opel Olympia in adopting a chassis-less monocoque construction, suggesting that like the Vauxhall 10 introduced in 1937 by Opel's English sister-company, the Opel Kadett was designed for high volume low cost production. Competitive pricing led to commercial success, and Kadetts continued to be produced during the early months of the war: by the time production was interrupted in 1940 following intensification of hostilities, 107,608 of these Opel Kadetts had come off the assembly line at Opel's Rüsselsheim plant, which had been the first major car plant in Germany to apply the assembly-line production techniques pioneered by Henry Ford.

After the war, Opel production facilities from Brandenburg an der Havel (trucks) were crated up and transported to the Soviet Union as part of a larger reparations package agreed upon by the victorious powers. From 1948 the prewar Kadett was manufactured as the Moskvitch 400/420: it continued to be produced on the edge of Moscow as a Moskvitch until 1956.

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Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, at the end of a long period of design development for this type of vessel, which ended as steamships took over their routes. She was named after the short shirt of the fictional witch in Robert Burns' poem Tam o' Shanter, first published in 1791.

After the big improvement in the fuel efficiency of steamships in 1866, the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 gave them a shorter route to China, so Cutty Sark spent only a few years on the tea trade before turning to the trade in wool from Australia, where she held the record time to Britain for ten years. Continuing improvements in steam technology early in the 1880s meant that steamships also came to dominate the longer sailing route to Australia, and the ship was sold to the Portuguese company Ferreira and Co. in 1895 and renamed Ferreira. She continued as a cargo ship until purchased in 1922 by retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman, who used her as a training ship operating from Falmouth, Cornwall. After his death, Cutty Sark was transferred to the Thames Nautical Training College, Greenhithe, in 1938 where she became an auxiliary cadet training ship alongside HMS Worcester. By 1954, she had ceased to be useful as a cadet ship and was transferred to permanent dry dock at Greenwich, London, for public display.

Cutty Sark is listed by National Historic Ships as part of the National Historic Fleet (the nautical equivalent of a Grade 1 Listed Building). She is one of only three remaining intact composite construction (wooden hull on an iron frame) ships from the nineteenth century, the others being the clipper City of Adelaide, now in Port Adelaide, South Australia and the warship HMS Gannet in Chatham. The beached skeleton of Ambassador, of 1869 lying near Punta Arenas, Chile is the only other significant remnant of this construction method.

The ship has been damaged by fire twice in recent years, first on 21 May 2007 while undergoing conservation. She was restored and was reopened to the public on 25 April 2012. Funders for the Cutty Sark conservation project include: the Heritage Lottery Fund, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Sammy Ofer Foundation, Greenwich Council, Greater London Authority, The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Berry Brothers & Rudd, Michael Edwards and Alisher Usmanov.

On 19 October 2014 she was damaged in a smaller fire.

Cutty Sark whisky derives its name from the ship. An image of the clipper appears on the label, and the maker formerly sponsored the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race. The ship also inspired the name of the Saunders Roe Cutty Sark flying boat.

Cutty Sark was ordered by ship-owner John Willis, who operated a shipping company founded by his father. The company had several ships in the tea trade from China to Britain. Speed was an advantage to vessels carrying a high-value, seasonal product, such as tea. Faster ships could obtain higher rates of freight (the price paid to transport the cargo), and tea merchants would use the names of fast-sailing ships that had carried their products in their advertising.  Cutty Sark was ordered during a boom in building tea clippers in the period 1865–1869—something that was attributed to a substantial reduction in the import duties for tea. introduction  In 1868 the brand-new Aberdeen-built clipper, Thermopylae, set a record time of 61 days port to port on her maiden voyage from London to Melbourne and it was this design that Willis set out to better.

It is uncertain how the hull shape for Cutty Sark was chosen. Willis chose Hercules Linton to design and build the ship but Willis already possessed another ship, The Tweed, which he considered to have exceptional performance. The Tweed (originally Punjaub) was a frigate designed by Oliver Lang based on the lines of an old French frigate, built in Bombay for the East India Company as a combination sail/paddle steamer. She and a sister ship were purchased by Willis, who promptly sold the second ship plus engines from The Tweed for more than he paid for both. The Tweed was then lengthened and operated as a fast sailing vessel, but was considered too big for the tea runs. Willis also commissioned two all-iron clippers with designs based upon The Tweed, Hallowe'en and Blackadder. Linton was taken to view The Tweed in dry dock.

Willis considered that The Tweed's bow shape was responsible for her notable performance, and this form seems to have been adopted for Cutty Sark. Linton, however, felt that the stern was too barrel shaped and so gave Cutty Sark a squarer stern with less tumblehome. The broader stern increased the buoyancy of the ship's stern, making it lift more in heavy seas so it was less likely that waves would break over the stern, and over the helmsman at the wheel. Cutty Sark was given masts that followed the design of The Tweed, with similar good rake and the foremast on both placed further aft than usual.

A contract for Cutty Sark's construction was signed on 1 February 1869 with the firm of Scott & Linton, which had only been formed in May 1868. Their shipyard was at Dumbarton on the River Leven on a site previously occupied by shipbuilders William Denny & Brothers. The contract required the ship to be completed within six months at a contracted price of £17 per ton and maximum size of 950 tons. This was a highly competitive price for an experimental, state-of-the-art vessel, and for a customer requiring the highest standards. Payment would be made in seven instalments as the ship progressed, but with a penalty of £5 for every day the ship was late. The ship was to be built to Lloyd's A1 standard and her construction was supervised on behalf of Willis by Captain George Moodie, who would command her when completed. Construction delays occurred when the Lloyd's inspectors required additional strengthening in the ship.

Work on the ship was suspended when Scott and Linton ran out of money to continue. Rather than simply liquidate the company, an arrangement was made for Denny's to take over the contract and complete the ship, which was finally launched on 22 November 1869 by Captain Moodie's wife. The ship was moved to Denny's yard to have her masts fitted, and then on 20 December towed downriver to Greenock to have her running rigging installed. In the event, completing the ship meant the company's creditors were owed even more money than when work had first been halted.

Cutty Sark has a registered length of 212.5 feet (64.77 m), with a depth of hold of 21 feet (6.40 m) and a net tonnage of 921. The hull is one of the sharpest of all the tea clippers: she has a coefficient of under deck tonnage of 0.55, compared to Thermopylae at 0.58.  Cutty Sark's prismatic coefficient, another measure of hull sharpness, is 0.628; this allows comparison with US-built clippers studied by Howard I. Chapelle. After water-line length, the prismatic coefficient is the next most important determinant of potential hull speed. Unladen, or with a cargo of low density, ballast was required for stability. For example, when she was loaded with wool, 200 tons of ballast was carried. The largest wool cargo she ever carried was 900 tons' weight (the total of ballast and cargo of 1,100 tons is consistent with the estimated deadweight cargo capacity of 1,135 tons at 20-foot draught). The largest tea cargo carried was 615 tons' weight. Conversely, a dense cargo allowed full use of the deadweight capacity: if loaded with coal, she would usually carry 1,100 tons.

Broadly, the parts of the ship visible above the waterline were constructed from East India teak, while American rock elm was used for the ship's bottom. The stem, 15 in × 15 in (38 cm × 38 cm), and sternpost, 16.5 in × 15 in (42 cm × 38 cm), were of teak while the rudder was of English oak. The keel was replaced in the 1920s with one constructed from 15-inch (38 cm) pitch pine. The deck was made of 3.5-inch (8.9 cm) thick teak while the 'tween deck was 3-inch (7.6 cm) yellow pine. The keel, 16.5 in × 15 in (42 cm × 38 cm), had on either side a garboard strake, 11 in × 12 in (28 cm × 30 cm), and then 6-inch (150 mm) planking decreasing to 4.75 in (12.1 cm) at one-fifth the depth of the hold. Teak planking began at approximately the level of the bilge stringer. The hull was covered by Muntz metal sheeting up to the 18-foot (5.5 m) depth mark, and all the external timbers were secured by Muntz metal bolts to the internal iron frame. The wrought-iron frame was an innovation first experimented with in shipbuilding in the 1840s, and was the standard building method for tea clippers by the middle of the 1860s.  It consisted of frames (vertical), beams (horizontal) and cross bracing (diagonal members).

The diagonally-braced iron frame made for a strong, rigid ship; diagonal members prevent racking (shearing, where frame rectangles become parallelograms). Less working and leaking of the hull meant less crew time spent pumping, allowing more time to be spent on changes of sail. The wrought-iron-framed hull also took up less cargo space than an all-wood hull would have done. The Muntz metal sheeting reduced fouling of Cutty Sark's hull; with a cleaner hull, she could sail faster.[

Fashion has emerged as the undisputed champion in the online retail arena. With e-commerce giants like Amazon dominating the market, fashion has become the largest selling segment both in India and globally. The staggering sales figures speak for themselves, showcasing the insatiable demand for fashionable clothing and accessories in the online realm.

In a world where convenience and accessibility reign supreme, online shopping platforms have revolutionized the way consumers purchase goods. The ease of browsing through thousands of products at a click of a button has propelled fashion to new heights. As more and more people turn to online shopping, it comes as no surprise that fashion emerges as the dominant force in this digital landscape.

India, with its vast population and growing middle class, has witnessed an exponential surge in online sales across various sectors. However, it is the fashion industry that takes center stage with its ability to capture both traditional and contemporary tastes. From ethnic wear to Western styles, Indian consumers are indulging in their sartorial desires like never before on e-commerce platforms.

On a global scale, fashion continues to hold its ground as one of the most lucrative segments for online retailers worldwide. The allure of international brands coupled with competitive pricing creates an irresistible appeal for customers around the globe.

While other sectors may experience fluctuations in sales figures due to various factors such as seasonality or economic conditions; fashion remains resilient. Its ability to adapt and cater to evolving trends ensures that it remains at the forefront of consumer preferences.

It is evident that fashion's dominance in online sales is here to stay. As technology continues to advance, we can expect further innovations within this space that will only amplify its growth and reach even greater heights.

This is a part of a shoot for Amazon India for their Saree store launch in June 2023 shot in Rajasthan to test the framing and lighting with a handheld Google Pixel 3 camera.

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While capturing vessels berthed in Telford Quay at Aberdeen Harbour this afternoon Thursday 10th January 2019, this Colin Lawson Transport DAF XF truck arrived, a quick word with the driver asking for permission to take some photos of his truck , he gave me permission and these captures are the result.

Colin Lawson Transport .

History

Since buying his first lorry back in 1997, Colin Lawson has built his company up to the size it is today along with help from loyal office staff, also with employing the most experienced of drivers.

The company has grown enormously over the past years, growing alongside key customers supporting each other in good and bad times.

Colin Lawson Transport aim is to maintain a level of service second to none providing each customer with the same personal contact, building on long standing relationships.

One of the leading haulage companies in the North East of Scotland and have a reputation of providing a first class service built on our strong customer relationships.

Specialists within the oil and gas sector, working alongside general haulage fleet and heavy haulage fleet.

One of Aberdeen’s largest and most experienced haulage companies, operating a fleet of over 60 vehicles specialising within the oil and gas sector, complimenting both general haulage and heavy haulage fleet.

Also being one of the largest heavy haulage fleets in Scotland we have a multitude of variable trailers to meet individual customer needs. Driver training is paramount within our company and we undertake regular internal driving assessments along with ADR training to vastly improve our drivers skills.

Fleet of vehicles are one of the most modern and road friendly in our area purchasing from all major manufactures, our trailer fleet are predominantly all purchased from Dennison Trailers.

Business model has always been built on forging long standing relationships with customers, and treat every customer with the same working values, and strive to maintain this at every level.

CF Jennings is a leading provider of local, national and European transport services, based in Aberdeen. Since 1971 this family-run business has worked with companies big and small, a distinctive fleet of vehicles carry out deliveries across Scotland, the rest of the UK and mainland Europe.

Operations team can arrange collections and deliveries of any shape or form, providing services such as general haulage, bulk loads, parcel collection and delivery, abnormal loads, transportation of hazardous goods, and a lot more.

CF Jennings prides itself on making quick decisions, being honest and providing a personal, quality service at very competitive prices.

Long term partnerships exist because of these qualities and newer relationships exist thanks to word-of-mouth, continuous quality feedback, and down-to-earth approach to business.

Being a smaller, family-run company has its advantages – CF Jennings are able to provide a quicker, more personal and straightforward service that often cannot be matched by others, leaving customers dissatisfied. That’s where CF Jennings comes in .

Working around-the-clock, often at very short notice, to get the job done.

DAF XF 105

Low operating costs, best driver satisfaction and high reliability: the key development criteria behind DAF’s trucks for the long haul.

The XF105 is the best proposition on the market today. Voted International Truck of the Year 2007 by an international panel of specialist journalists. It has the most spacious cab in its class, offers top comfort to the driver and high revenues per kilometre to the operator. It’s a top performer.

Designed for long distance haulage applications, the cab sets a new standard for driver comfort. With a choice of Space Cab and Super Space Cab – both with generous interior dimensions – the XF105 offers more living, working and storage space than any other truck in its class. The result: drivers stay fit and fresh longer.

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The 12.9-litre PACCAR MX engine delivers excellent performance: from 410 hp up to 510 hp and high torque of between 2,000 and 2,500 Nm, with a maximum torque available between 1,000 and 1,410 rpm.

Also, with DAF SCR Technology it complies with either Euro 4 or Euro 5 exhaust gas emission standards. It is economical too, incorporating several technical advances that reduce fuel consumption. The XF105 also uses many low-maintenance components, which extends service intervals to further reduce operating costs.

High performance driveline

The driveline is carefully balanced to optimise performance under all operating conditions, and to make the most of the engine’s low fuel consumption. There is a choice of either a 16-speed manual or the latest AS-Tronic automated transmission to deliver power to the acclaimed DAF hypoid rear axle. There is also a hub-reduction axle for more demanding applications.

Choice of axle configurations

To ensure that the XF105 is ideally suited to each application it includes a choice of tractors and rigids with two-, three-, or four-axles.

XF105 has numerous styling and aerodynamic refinements. They include a restyled lower grille, which extends to the bumper and is more pronounced to channel more air and enhance performance. The lower grille also features an aluminium strip to signify compliance with the Euro 4/5 exhaust emission standards, while the upper grille is redesigned with cleaner lines. There is also a styled bumper, in which optional cat’s-eye combi-lights can now be integrated. The clear headlamps with virtually unbreakable Lexan protection can now also come as Xenon.

Wider field of vision

The four large, electrically adjustable and heated mirrors offer a much larger field of view for increased safety. The stylish aerodynamically designed mirrors are also optionally available in body colour.

Super Space Cab roof

The entirely restyled Super Space Cab roof is both pronounced and stylish. There is an integrated aerodynamic sun visor. While the optional integrated skylights, with twin 70W halogen spotlights, improve visibility and add an extra touch of style. It all adds up to a unique, powerful presence, both tough and inviting at the same time.

The PACCAR MX engine, developed and manufactured by DAF, combines excellent high performance with economical fuel consumption. It is available in 410, 460 and 510 hp versions with high torque of 2,000, 2,300 and 2,500 Nm respectively. Importantly, maximum torque is available between 1,000 and 1,410 rpm.

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Scotts Plant ensures reliability of its Scania tippers with long-term repair and maintenance from Keltruck

Based in Evesham, Scotts Plant and Haulage supplies muckaway, aggregates, sand and gravel, topsoil and road planings throughout its local area. Reliability is a top priority for the company, and Scotts therefore operates a fleet of 18 tippers 12 of which are Scania, with another four on order this year. All the vehicles are fully maintained by Keltruck at its Droitwich site, with long-term repair and maintenance services using Scania support programmes.

“We aim to be the best in our field,” said Scott Witheford, managing director of Scotts Plant and Haulage. “We have chosen Scania trucks as we consider them to be the best – they are reliable, minimising down time, and they are fuel efficient too.”

Scotts Plant has chosen a six-year Scania Repair & Maintenance package on all of its vehicles from Keltruck, giving it predictable costs and peace of mind. Scott said, “We don't want to be involved with the repair and maintenance of our trucks in-house, so we have opted to take a package to cover their upkeep for the entire length of time we intend to own them.”

“Keltruck Droitwich always go the extra mile for us – providing a first-class service for the life of the truck with repairs, maintenance and parts when we need them,” added Scott.

The vehicles are a combination of Scania P-Series and G-Series 8x4 tippers with the Scania XT package, with a mix of steel and lightweight alloy. All vehicles have been supplied by Keltruck Account Manager Tony Biddlestone, and Keltruck has been working with Scotts Plant for 20 years.

“We enjoy dealing with Keltruck – Tony makes sure we get the right spec trucks and looks after us on the purchasing,” said Scott. “The tippers look good with our livery and the drivers like them. All in all they fit in well with what we want to achieve.”

Founded in 2000, Scotts Plant and Haulage supplies muckaway, aggregates, sand and gravel, topsoil and road planings throughout Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. With access to almost every quarry and landfill in a 30-mile radius of Evesham, Scotts can offer a service for import and export of any material from any site – with competitive prices and unrivalled delivery times.

The latest delivery consists of three Scania XT P410 with city safe windows and Boweld bodies, all on six year full R&M contract.

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The Jaguar E-Type (a.k.a. Jaguar XK-E) is a British sports car, which was manufactured by Jaguar Cars Ltd between 1961 and 1974. Its combination of good looks, high performance and competitive pricing established the marque as an icon of 1960s motoring. More than 70,000 E-Types were sold.

In March 2008, the Jaguar E-Type ranked first in a The Daily Telegraph online list of the world's "100 most beautiful cars" of all time.

In 2004, Sports Car International magazine placed the E-Type at number one on their list of Top Sports Cars of the 1960s.

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Peugeot's best-selling car of all time, with well over 8 million of them having been produced in-house by Peugeot between 1998 and 2012, and at least 2 million derivatives being produced under license in China, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia and Uruguay. The Iranian version is still under production. But the 206 nearly didn't happen at all.

When it was time to retire the 205, Peugeot looked at the market and decided sales of compact hatchbacks were in decline, whilst sales of supermini city cars and larger hatchbacks were increasing. Based on this data, their strategy was to produce a supermini (the 106) and a larger hatchback (the 306). However, sales of their rival's compact hatchbacks (i.e. the Ford Fiesta and the VW Polo) were strong, production of the 205 was winding down, and Citroen had no platform suitable to base a Peugeot model from. So they had no option but to design and launch a competitive product from the ground up. Hence, the 206 was born.

Available in a range of body styles (a hatchback, a sedan, a coupe/cabriolet, a station wagon, and a van), with a range of engine choices (various sizes of petrol and diesel engines), and in a range of trim options, there was a 206 suitable for almost everyone. The versatile range, attractive styling, and competitive price point, combined with some slick advertising, ensured that the 206 was a hit.

I still think they're good-looking cars; the Peugeots of that era (206, 306, and 406 especially) are some of their best designs.

Composite image, made up of several shots in portrait orientation, stitched together using the excellent freeware utility, Hugin.

After the Konica FS we're also seeing the Konica L and the Konica FP. The meterless FP bundled with its 52mm f/1.4 lens listed for USD $230 which was a competitive price.

The Jaguar E-Type (a.k.a. Jaguar XK-E) is a British sports car, which was manufactured by Jaguar Cars Ltd between 1961 and 1975. Its combination of beauty, high performance, and competitive pricing established the marque as an icon of 1960s motoring. At a time when most cars had drum brakes, live rear axles, and mediocre performance, the XKE sprang on the scene with 150 mph and a sub-7 second 0-60 time, monocoque construction, disc brakes, rack and pinion steering, independent front and rear suspension, and unrivaled looks.[3] In fact, the XKE was based on Jaguar's own famed racer, the Type D, which had won the world's most prestigious sports-car race three consecutive years (1955-1957)[4] and, as such, it was the first production vehicle not to use a separate body bolted onto a chassis, instead employing the racing design of a body tub attached to a tubular framework, with the engine bolted directly to the framework.[5]

In March 2008, the Jaguar E-Type ranked first in a The Daily Telegraph online list of the world's "100 most beautiful cars" of all time.[6]

In 2004, Sports Car International magazine placed the E-Type at number one on their list of Top Sports Cars of the 1960s.

In 2011, when Jaguar E-Type had 50th anniversary. Jeremy Clarkson said the Jaguar E-type is the essence of British brilliance.

Local people were used as the models.

As part of the Pinta Malasaña 2020 Art Project numerous examples of Urban Art have been incorporated into the decoration of the Market.

Located in the Plaza de los Mostenses, it is one of the city’s oldest markets. Built in 1946, much has changed since then. Today, its hallmark is undoubtedly its formidable mixture of cultures, gastronomy and food from the four compass points. East and west, north and south are represented in this central market, behind the Gran Vía, where we can find everything from Iranian caviar to a full range of the most exotic tropical fruit from South America.

The history of the Los Mostenses Market (which takes its name from the square in which it is held referring to St. Norbert’s Convent of the Premonstratensian or Montenses monks, who lived there until its demolition in 1810), is parallel to that of the Gran Vía. Behind it, inside a rationalist-style building, there is a market that has grown naturally.

Los Mostenses Market is a living organism combining the essential – a wide range of fresh products at competitive prices – with the unexpected: plenty of Korean products, a Chinese darner or an Iranian caviar dispensary. The market boasts more than one hundred stalls, spread out over three floors or located at street level, which are home to a wide spectrum of the food business – with a large representation of Latin American and oriental gastronomy – and it offers various services: hairdresser’s, reprography, florist’s...

This was probably the first generation of DAF truck to appear in the UK market; albeit in very small numbers and possibly only in tractor form (York Trailers at Northallerton had at least one T1800). This was despite a competitive price, good specification and quick delivery. Whilst DAF made slow inroads into the UK market throughout the 1960s, it perhaps took the assault of Swedish truck makers in the 1970s to persuade British haulier to buy foreign.

Robson's of Carlisle seems an appropriate livery for this fictional AT1900, even if the company was a later convert to DAF trucks. Thanks again to martin Vonk for the use of his source image (20-Jun-14).

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Minolta X-700 (early Japanesse production) with Rokkor 50mm 1.7 lens.

The Minolta X-700 is a 35 mm single-lens reflex film camera introduced by Minolta in 1981.

The X-700 used the basic body of the XG-M with electronically controlled stepless speeds, but added full program autoexposure in addition to the XG-M's aperture priority and metered manual modes. This program mode was referred to as "MPS" or Minolta Program System. It also introduced through-the-lens (TTL) flash metering, and added exposure lock and interchangeable focusing screens to the XG-M's features.

In 1981, the X-700 was awarded the European "Camera of the Year". Its competitive pricing resulted in its becoming the most successful Minolta camera since the SRT line.

In 1999, the X-700 camera was discontinued.

Go North East's Deptford-based "Black Cats" branded Wright Streetlite DF/Wright Streetlite Max Micro-Hybrid 5463 (NK17 GHO) is pictured here on Oxclose Road, Washington, whilst out of service, testing the Next Stop Announcements on the "Black Cats" 2A route, prior to entering service. 14/06/17

Manufactured by Wrightbus in Northern Ireland, this batch of 18 vehicles, which are to be launched at Deptford Depot, feature the latest Euro 6 Micro-Hybrid engines with the cleanest vehicle emissions standards. Unlike previous Euro 5 examples in the fleet, they therefore feature a Wrightbus grille on the rear bonnet, providing additional air circulation.

Similar to all recent orders, these vehicles feature Esteban Civic V3 seating complete with e-leather; two-colour Tarabus 'Wood Effect' flooring; and blue accent lighting, which is fitted underneath seats, to provide extra light on the gangway. They also feature free customer Wi-Fi, audio-visual Next Stop Announcement LED internal signs, and USB power sockets on the back of each seat to allow mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets to be charged 'on the go'.

These vehicles have received "Black Cats" branding. Service 39 (Doxford Park - Pennywell), which was recently branded as "Black Cats", will be allocated some of these vehicles, while "SimpliCity" services 2/2A (Silksworth - Washington Galleries) will also be allocated some of these vehicles, with the current brand identity being phased out. The existing Scania L94UB/Wright Solar vehicles on service 39 will be re-allocated to services 38 and 61, while the Optare Versas are expected to transfer out of Deptford Depot, for fleet standardisation.

"Black Cats" is the new brand identity being introduced to encompass a variety of different frequent services in and around the city of Sunderland, promoting the cheap and competitively priced day and weekly tickets available for travel in the city (£3.65 for a day ticket, and £12.15 for a weekly ticket).