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Pennsylvania Railroad DD1 3936, built in 1911 and at one time was beautifully restored and preserved INSIDE the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, has been languishing outside for the last 20 years or so due to what I can only call gross incompetence from the museum staff.

Only one pair, Nos. 3936 and 3937, survives. This pair is at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania on static display and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

It is beyond disgusting that the museum has allowed these unique motors to rot away. The museum is so incompetent that when they "restored" this thing they never noticed that the number boards still had the Penn Central renumbering of 4781 and just left them intact.

Words cannot properly express my utter contempt for the operators of the PA museum. Just about everything once donated to this place has been left to rot despite donations.

I have pissed away many dollars to this mismanaged place over the years and am absolutely disgusted at the waste of funds.

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As this is upload 3000 (according to the stats) the subject of choice goes to a bus that I first set eyes upon whilst under construction in 1978 and then had to wait a further 14 years, not to mention a trip half way around the globe to obtain a shot of the complete vehicle.

China Motor Bus DD1, its solitary East Lancs-bodied Dennis Dominator, was the first rear-engined Dennis for a Hong Kong operator and the forerunner of around 1600 similarly configured Dominators, Dragons and Condors (the latter two essentially 3-axle versions of the former) supplied until 2000.

Configured for 102 seats to 3+2 layout, the body order was confirmed by CMB in June 1978 and the completed vehicle exhibited on the Hestair Dennis stand at the first NEC Motor Show in October 1978. It was officially delivered to Dennis a month later and shipped to Hong Kong, where it entered CMB service in January 1979.

Later joined by 6 standard wheelbase lowheight examples with Alexander ckd bodywork for the Peak service, in its later years DD1 was generally used as a spare bus by CMB and confined to specific workings, usually with the same driver.

By October 1992, when your photographer visited Hong Kong for the first time, it had gained this promotional livery for a Road Safety Campaign, also carried by a number of other vehicles at the time.

As for tracking it down, with limited knowledge of the area, a call earlier in the day to the CMB contact that had been provided prior to the trip, established that it was due to work a single round trip on an early evening 82 from Chai Wan to North Point Ferry, and right on cue, in fading light, the bus appeared, only to swallow up the waiting passengers and depart rather sharpish.

Fortunately, there were other photographic opportunities during this and subsequent trips, some made possible with the kind assistance of CMB staff, to whom I owe a debt of gratitude.

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Checking if the look good...

Flanieren zwischen Skulpturen... (Lehmburck Muesum, Duisburg)

Nils Kristensen

Guemes Channel. Dakota Creek Floating Drydock DD1.

Built as a tanker in 1938 by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corp., Manitowoc, Wisc., In 1980 Converted into a Fish Factory.

1938 TRAVERSE CITY SOCONY

1955 - Socony-Mobil Oil Co., Inc., Chicago

1962 - RAYMOND J. BUSHEY Diesel Tanker S. D. Maddock, Inc. (Spentonbush Fuel Transport Service, Inc.), New York

1977 - Diesel Tanker Ira S. Bushey, Inc.

1980 - BERING TRADER Converted to Fish Factory by Bering Trader, Inc., Seattle

1991 - INDEPENDENCE Trident Seafoods Corp., Seattle

Auke Visser's MOBIL Tankers & Tugs Site

On Board The Traverse City Socony in 1954

Lindsey Foss and Garth Foss are Enhanced Tractor Tugs, and were the largest in the world (when built in 1994), featuring Voith Schneider cycloidal propulsion systems. and are specifically designed for tanker escorts.

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Guemes Channel. Dakota Creek Floating Drydock DD1.

Built as a tanker in 1938 by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corp., Manitowoc, Wisc., In 1980 Converted into a Fish Factory.

1938 TRAVERSE CITY SOCONY

1955 - Socony-Mobil Oil Co., Inc., Chicago

1962 - RAYMOND J. BUSHEY Diesel Tanker S. D. Maddock, Inc. (Spentonbush Fuel Transport Service, Inc.), New York

1977 - Diesel Tanker Ira S. Bushey, Inc.

1980 - BERING TRADER Converted to Fish Factory by Bering Trader, Inc., Seattle

1991 - INDEPENDENCE Trident Seafoods Corp., Seattle

Auke Visser's MOBIL Tankers & Tugs Site

On Board The Traverse City Socony in 1954

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Until the very early 1980s, W Gash of Newark were still regularly employing their elderly fleet of Daimler CVD6 motorbuses on the Newark - Nottingham services. Passing the Spring House pub, DD1 a Massey bodied Daimler CVD6 approaches the outskirts of Newark town centre on a Saturday afternoon in June 1980.

The scene today: www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.07149,-0.819019,3a,50y,270.6h,8...

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Hertford, February 1990.

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H251KVX was a Dennis Dominator / Northern Counties H75D purchased new by Ensign Bus (Officially throught the Frontrunner SE company). It passed to Firstbus with the London operations of Capital Citybus and later found it's way to Glasgow. It carries route branding for service 41 in this view taken at the junction of West Regent Street and Renfield Street.

DD1 on Abbey street.

The 1978 Commercial motor show at Earls Court London, had a number of exhibits destined for Hong Kong with a number of manufacturers making a play for a share of the market including a Volvo Ailsa, Leyland Victory and MCW Metrobus. This is a Dennis Dominator/East Lancs destined to be DD1 in the China Motor Bus fleet

DD1 999

Guildford Garage, May 1990.

China Motor Bus's only East Lancs bodied Dennis Dominator DD1 is seen at the operators Chai Wan parking ground in October 1992

DD1 36

DD1 6 and DD1 7

Parmi les appareils Numériques au look sympathique

Minox DD1 A (2003)

Capteur de 3.0 MP CMOS ( 2048x1536 )

Capacité mémoire : environ 40 vues

poids 120 g

200,00 €

DD1 17

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Guemes Channel. Dakota Creek Floating Drydock DD1.

Built as a tanker in 1938 by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corp., Manitowoc, Wisc., In 1980 Converted into a Fish Factory.

1938 TRAVERSE CITY SOCONY

1955 - Socony-Mobil Oil Co., Inc., Chicago

1962 - RAYMOND J. BUSHEY Diesel Tanker S. D. Maddock, Inc. (Spentonbush Fuel Transport Service, Inc.), New York

1977 - Diesel Tanker Ira S. Bushey, Inc.

1980 - BERING TRADER Converted to Fish Factory by Bering Trader, Inc., Seattle

1991 - INDEPENDENCE Trident Seafoods Corp., Seattle

Auke Visser's MOBIL Tankers & Tugs Site

On Board The Traverse City Socony in 1954

A101RGE was a Dennis Dorchester SDA804 / Alexander TS Type B53F new to Central Scottish as their DD1. It passed to Kelvin Central then came into First Glasgow ownership as shown in this view taken at Buchanan Bus Station in Glasgow.