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Leyland Olympian / Roe A97KUM about to leave Dewsbury on its mammoth journey for a new life and future. Quite fitting it came back to West Yorkshire for old times sake and did very useful work serving as an outreach at a local church for around 4 years. It will be replaced by a newer less interesting vehicle shortly. Lovely to drive something which fits like a pair of old slippers, rather than something which is a headache or gives you one. "Bonne Chance" friend.
"The U.S. Custom House or U.S. Customhouse is the custom house in Charleston, South Carolina. Construction began in 1852, but was interrupted in 1859 due to costs and the possibility of South Carolina's secession from the Union. After the Civil War, construction was restarted in 1870 and completed in 1879. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 9, 1974. It is also a contributing property of the Charleston Historic District.
In the tense pre-Civil War period, the federal government felt that building a new custom house in Charleston to replace the Old Custom House would be a positive sign to South Carolina. A design competition with a US$300 prize was announced. About ten architects submitted entries. The four known entrants were three Charlestonian architects: Edward Brickell White, Edward C. Jones, and Peter H. Hammarskold and one Savannah, Georgia architect, John S. Norris. Noted New York architect, James Renwick submitted a late entry, which was returned. The commission judging the entries selected the Jones design and submitted the plans to the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington, DC.
There was lobbying while the decision was being made. Robert Mills submitted plans to the Secretary. Eventually, Ammi Burnham Young was selected to produce a new design incorporating features of the four competitive entries. White was appointed the superintending architect. Jones, Hammarskold, Norris, and White were awarded US$200 for their entries.
The final plans were for a two-story, cross-shaped building with an elevated, rusticated basement. It was to be 259 ft (79 m) from west to east and 152 ft (46 m) from north to south. The west and east arms had Roman porticoes supported by Corinthian limestone columns and steps down to grade. The north and south arms were porticoes. The walls had Corinthian engaged columns between the windows. There was a dome supported by Corinthian columns. The building was to be 160 ft (49 m) above grade. Except for the change from Doric to Corinthian order and for the high dome, the building bore resemblance to the Boston Customhouse that Young had recently designed.
Land was purchased at Fitzsimons' Wharf at East Bay and Market. Construction started in 1853 under White's direction. Since the location was marshy, 7,000 piles that were 40 ft (12 m) long were driven into the sand and were cut off at grade. A grillage or network of timber was laid. and a thick bed of concrete was constructed for the foundation. The granite walls of the basement were finished by 1855. After the marble-faced walls were erected, the columns were begun in 1858.
In 1859, there was increasing concern in Congress over the possible secession of South Carolina and the costs of construction. Representative John Letcher from Virginia called for a cessation of construction. Representative William Porcher Miles defended the construction with little enthusiasm. No funds were appropriated to continue construction in 1859.
White proposed eliminating the costly dome and replacing it with skylights. With the possibility of war, Congress only appropriated funds for protecting the construction from rain.
During the war, the building was damaged by shelling. In 1870, construction resumed. The original marble came from Hastings, New York. Because that quarry was abandoned, new marble was obtained from Tuckahoe, New Jersey. Alfred B. Mullett prepared revised drawings. Alterations made at his direction included the loss of the dome, the elimination of the north and south porticoes, and changes to the west entrance. The dome in Ammi B. Young's original design was replaced in 1876 with skylights that covered a two-story, square cortile or inside patio. Fluted Corinthian columns surround the iron second floor gallery. The gallery is ornamented with fluted pilasters. The north and south porticoes were probably converted to office space at this stage.
The windows are rectangular with pediments. The portico entrance doors are also pediment-ed. The buildings were topped with an entablature with architrave and an unadorned frieze with a dentiled cornice. The building has a low roof with an open balustrade.
Construction was completed in 1879. The total cost of construction was about US$2,806,000.
It is possible that the north and south portico were enclosed to increase office space in repairs after the 1886 Charleston earthquake.
In 1906, a heating system replaced the use of stoves and coal grates. In 1910, plumbing and electrical lighting were installed.
By the 1960s, the Custom House was used by a number of federal agencies. Threatened with demolition, local preservationists with the help of Representative Mendel Rivers worked to save the building.
In 1964, "UNITED STATES CUSTOM HOUSE" was engraved in the frieze above the west portico. In 1968, over US$212,000 was spent on restoration.
Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley, Cooper, and Wando rivers. Charleston had a population of 150,277 as of the 2020 U.S. Census. The 2020 population of the Charleston metropolitan area, comprising Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties, was 799,636 residents, the third-largest in the state and the 74th-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States.
Charleston was founded in 1670 as Charles Town, honoring King Charles II, at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River (now Charles Towne Landing) but relocated in 1680 to its present site, which became the fifth-largest city in North America within ten years. It remained unincorporated throughout the colonial period; its government was handled directly by a colonial legislature and a governor sent by Parliament. Election districts were organized according to Anglican parishes, and some social services were managed by Anglican wardens and vestries. Charleston adopted its present spelling with its incorporation as a city in 1783. Population growth in the interior of South Carolina influenced the removal of the state government to Columbia in 1788, but Charleston remained among the ten largest cities in the United States through the 1840 census.
Charleston's significance in American history is tied to its role as a major slave trading port. Charleston slave traders like Joseph Wragg were the first to break through the monopoly of the Royal African Company and pioneered the large-scale slave trade of the 18th century; almost one half of slaves imported to the United States arrived in Charleston. In 2018, the city formally apologized for its role in the American Slave trade after CNN noted that slavery "riddles the history" of Charleston." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
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The old Sidebotham’s Trap Works, seen here at the Black Country Living Museum, in Dudley in the West Midlands.
Sidebotham’s Trap Works, originally constructed in Wednesfield, near Wolverhampton in 1913, is a typical example of a small purpose built factory of the period.
Wednesfield was a major centre for the manufacture and worldwide export of small animal traps. The stencils hanging from the Belfast Truss roof were used to label the packing cases with destinations of ports in Australia, Africa, South America and many other far-flung destinations.
The stamping, pressing and punching machines are driven by lineshafting from a single cylinder gas engine of 1906, built by Tangye’s of Smethwick.
The forge hearth was used to make the springs which operated the traps and parts were assembled on benches using the hand-operated fly presses, before being painted or ‘blacked’ in tanks by the canalside wall and packed for delivery.
The Lockheed Super Constellation, or "Connie" was one of the last great propeller driven commercial Airlines of the "Golden Age of Flight." Designed in the late 1930's the Connie was ordered by TWA and it's eccentric stockholder Howard Hughes. During WW2 the Connie was labelled the C-69 and used in a military transport role. After the war the Connie became the overseas and continental workhorse of some of the most iconic airlines of the era, such as TWA, Pan Am, and Lufthansa, as well as many others. The Connie remained in service with Eastern until 1968, when jetliners became the primary aircraft in the skies.
This Connie, dubbed "The Star of the Atlantic" is an intercontinental version of the L-1049. Designed to reach places such as Rome, Cologne, and London, this connie is designed for comfort during a trip which took many more hours than it does today. It includes bunks for passengers, and a large galley, prepared to serve full meals. The rear of the plane has two bathrooms.
This moc represents probably the end of my LEGO career for at least a year. Starting August 25th, I'll be doing a gap year in Deutschland. I plan on remaining active online, but obviously I will not be bringing my LEGO along nor building.
Bramley garage once again supplied buses for the Bradford network on Boxing day 2016. The use of elderly 60880 was perhaps surprising given its record, no programmed destination added to the puzzling choice. Faithful as ever the A4 paper helped out again as a route number ! Five Lane Ends, Bradford on the 641.
"The new BMW M5 is the uncompromising combination of elegant business saloon and systematically power-oriented supreme performance: large air inlets in the athletic front supply the M V8 high-performance engine with cooling air. The look created by the lines of the distinctive aluminium bonnet with two M specific swage lines is repeated in the contours of the roof made of very lightweight and tough carbon-fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP). The discreet M rear spoiler supports the sporty and powerful appearance and is an important element of the overall aerodynamic concept. Form follows performance – consistently in every detail..."
Source: BMW Ireland
Photographed during Driven Club event in Northern Ireland.
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Driven by the owner here Joe Rothery tells me this truck has got over 3 million Kilometres on the clock & still looks the Dogs ...!!!!!
Here YJ53 KFU SCANIA R580 V8 164L of JOE ROTHERY INTERNATIONAL @ THE LIMES CAFE , A614 Bilsthorpe , Thursday 30th JUNE 2016
"Driven by the fire of the Holy Spirit, the holy apostles travelled throughout the earth. Inflamed with the same fire, apostolic missionaries have reached, are now reaching, and will continue to reach the ends of the earth, from one pole to the other, in order to proclaim the word of God. They are deservedly able to apply to themselves those words of the apostle Paul: The love of Christ drives us on."
– St Anthony Mary Claret, founder of the Claretian missionaries.
This statue of St Anthony Mary Claret facing the mountains around Phoenix, AZ is on the ground of the Mount Claret Retreat Center.
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Introduced in 1974, the Alfetta GT was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign and Alfa Romeo. It had a much more sporting appearance than the saloon, with a drag coefficient of 0.39 and one of its quirkier details was the positioning of the instruments; the rev counter was directly in front of the driver, whilst the speedometer and other gauges were in the centre of the dashboard.
It was initially only available with the 1.8-litre (1,779c.c.) version of the Alfa D.O.H.C. four-cylinder engine and featured a chain-driven eight-valve twin overhead cam cylinder head of cross-flow design. In 1976, with the final phasing out of the earlier 105 Series cars - GT 1300 Junior, GT 1600 Junior and 2000 GTV, the 1.8 engine was discontinued in favour of the 1.6 and 2.0 litre.
This Alfetta GT 1.8 was manufactured in August 1974 and spent all of its life in Lecce, southern Italy, and was only recently imported.
Buster Lang's All-American Classic, Custom, Hot Rod & Bike Show
Sandown Park, Esher, Surrey
13th-14th August 2016
Manufacturer: Tino Bianchi for Panhard
Type: 750 Sport Spider "Mille Miglia"
Engine: 750cc 2cylinder boxer-engine aircooled
Power: 50 pk/hp
Speed: 170 km/h
Production time: 1954
Production outlet: 1
Curb weight: 390 kg
Special:
- Only one car was build by Tino Bianchi for the Italian Panhard-importer Crepaldi for racing the Mille Miglia in 1954.
- The technical base is a 1950 Panhard Dyna X.
- The aluminium body was constructed by Colli in Milan (Italy).
- The lightweight frame was build at GILCO (Gilberto Colombo).
- The "Scuderia Italfrance"-team with driver Giancarlo Rigamonti raced with this sportscar between 1954 and 1957 and won the Gran Premio del Mugello in 1955, the Aosta Gran San Bernardo in 1956 and many appealing results in the Coppa d'Oro delle Dolomiti and at Monza.
- This car has driven the Mille Miglia 11 times in total.
"Save the girl child campaign (an internet-driven advocacy mission) by SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC"
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
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"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)
“Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict ( Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ). Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure – which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs – that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and in Africa, have already endured. We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism".The 2001 Census conducted by Government of India, showed a sharp decline in the child sex ratio in 80% districts of India. The Census Report of 2001 reveals a highly skewed child sex ratio (0-6 year-olds), that fell from 945 females per 1,000 males in 1991 to an all-time low of 927 in 2001. Additional data from the India’s birth and death registration service indicates that the figures have further fallen to fewer than 900 females per 1,000 men over the last few years. In some parts of the country, the sex ratio of girls to boys has dropped to less than 800:1,000. It's alarming that even liberal states like those in the northeast have taken to disposing of girls. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias.
The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.
Over the years, laws have been made stricter and the punishment too is more stringent now. But since many people manage to evade punishment, others too feel inclined to take the risk. Just look at the way sex-determination tests go on despite a stiff ban on them. Only if the message goes out loud and clear that nobody who dares to snuff out the life of a female foetus would escape effective legal system would the practice end. It is only by a combination of monitoring, education, socio-cultural campaigns, and effective legal implementation that the deep-seated attitudes and practices against women and girls can be eroded.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders,the practice of female genital mutilation , honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and discriminatory practices without fear of legal system. Sexual harassment and violence in the workplace are common and constant threats to working women’s lives and livelihoods.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008.
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A precursor to the rotating hearth Brunton calciners used at nearby Botallack and Levant, the arsenic was driven off the tin ore in roasting chambers and condensed in these chambers.
1929 O.M. 665 SS MM driven by Mikhail Opengeym and Kirill Yevstafyev from Russia.
In the afternoon of of Friday May 19, 2017, I was able to get myself a place in the little town of Furlo at the Furlo Pass to watch the Mille Miglia pass.
See:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furlo_Pass
and:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille_Miglia
and:
www.1000miglia.eu/MilleMiglia/
O.M. stands for Officine Meccaniche
It was an Italian car and truck manufacturing company, founded in 1918 in Milan as Società Anonima Officine Meccaniche. It disappeared as such in 1975, subsumed into Iveco, but still exists as a forklift builder.
The inception of the company had resulted from the merger of two companies, Grondona Comi & C and Miani Silvestri & C.
Originally, OM manufactured railway stock. Car production started in 1918, using the plant of the former Brixia-Zust (Brixia-Züst), just after OM took over Zust car company of Brescia, Northern Italy. The first OM car, Tipo S305, primarily an old Zust model, appeared in 1918 with a 4712 cc four-cylinder side-valve in-line engine.
Further models were Tipo 465 (with a 1327 cc four) in 1919, Tipo 467 (1410cc) and Tipo 469 (1496cc) in 1921.
1923 saw an all new model, Tipo 665 'Superba' with a 2-litre six-cylinder engine. This model was extremely successful in racing, winning top five positions in the 2-litre class in 1925 and 1926 at the Le Mans but its greatest achievement was the victory in the first Mille Miglia race in 1927 where Ferdinando Minoia and Giuseppe Morandi led home an O.M. '123' at an average speed of 48.27 miles per hour (77.7 km/h) for 21 hours 4 minutes 48 seconds. Some cars were equipped with Roots superchargers.
OM was taken over by the Fiat Group in 1938 and in the following year passenger car production ceased.
The fact is, I do feel 'driven,' driven to be the best that I can be.
I can do no less and still feel happy and content and satisfied with myself.
Pleasant Hills, PA. April 2017.
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I must admit, I wasn't expecting to find anything like this at 11.30PM on a Sunday night in an airport Departures building!
Pictured is a 2000 Arrows-Supertec (Renault) A21 Grand Prix car. It was driven in 2000 by Spaniard Pedro de la Rosa and Dutchman Jos Verstappen.
After a couple of lacklustre seasons using their own in-house engines Arrows went into 2000 with a supply of Supertec-badged Renault V10 engines.
From being stuck at the tail of the field the team suddenly found itself catapulted into the midfield and was usually amongst the quickest cars through the speed traps.
Although quick, the cars were also unreliable. Both drivers would score points on two occasions, Verstappen finishing fifth in a wet Canadian Grand Prix and a season's best fourth in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
De la Rosa finished sixth in the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring and matched that result in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim later in the season, scoring a solitary point on each occasion.
The car pictured above is Chassis 2 and acted as the spare car for the first twelve rounds but was raced during the final three races of the season.
Chassis 2 was due to be raced in the Monaco Grand Prix following an accident during qualifying for de la Rosa's race car. However, the Spaniard crashed the car during the Sunday morning warm-up session and had to revert to the repaired race car, leaving the team without a spare for the race.
Unfortunately, the Spaniard was involved in a first lap collision and his day's work was over there and then due to a lack of a spare car!
The car was rested after the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend but a first lap accident for de la Rosa in Italy saw a race chassis written off.
Chassis 2 was dusted off and appeared at the United States Grand Prix as the race car for de la Rosa. The car qualified eighteenth but retired after half-distance with gearbox failure.
De la Rosa qualified the car thirteenth for the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka and would finish the race a lapped twelfth.
The final race of the season didn't last long for car or driver with de la Rosa being involved in a first lap collision at the second corner.
Verstappen and de la Rosa would finish twelfth and equal-fifteenth, respectively, in the Drivers Championship with Arrows seventh in the Constructors standings.
Pictured in September 2019 at Brussels South Charleroi Airport, Belgium.
Large Christmas pyramid during the Esslingen Chistmas Market, with the "new" 17th century guildhall in the background, Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
Some background information:
Christmas pyramids are Christmas decorations that have their roots in the folklore and customs of the Ore Mountain region of Germany, but have become popular internationally. Today large Christmas pyramids can be found on many German Christmas markets. They comprise a decorated pyramidal outer frame with candle holders and a central carousel with a rotor at the top which is driven by warm air from the lit candles. The carousel is decorated with nativity scenes and other Christmas figures such as angels and wise men, as well as worldly motifs such as mining folk and forest scenes.
Smaller Christmas pyramids were originally hung from the ceiling of German families' houses. The custom spread across Europe, mainly to Italy and England and was brought to America by German immigrants in the 1700s. The origins of Christmas pyramids date back to the Middle Ages. In this period it was traditional in southern and western Europe to bring evergreen branches, for example boxwood, into the home and hang them in order to ward off moroseness in the dark and cold winter months. In northern and Eastern Europe traditional candles were used to achieve this goal. The German Christmas pyramid eventually unified these two traditions and became a symbol of Christmas celebrations.
The Esslingen Medieval Market and Christmas Market is unique and with more than 200 booths also one of the largest Christmas markets in the Stuttgart region. For almost four weeks at the Medieval Market, merchants in historical garments offer their goods for sale just as they did hundreds of years ago. Craftsmen like pewterers, felt-makers, tinder-makers, blacksmiths, broom-makers or glass-blowers demonstrate their craftsmanship. Furthermore, in the streets and on various stages artists fascinate their audience with juggling, music and nonsense. All around, Esslingen´s medieval half-timbered houses create a unique and spectacular backdrop. It is little wonder that crowds from Germany and all over the world flock to this spectacle, which takes the whole town back in time to the Middle Ages.
Esslingen am Neckar is a city in the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It has more than 93,000 residents and is located on the Neckar River, about 14 kilometres (9 miles) southeast of Stuttgart city centre.
There are archaeological evidences that Esslingen was settled since the Neolithic period. Traces of human settlement found at the site of the city church date back to around 1000 B.C. n the 1st century AD the Esslingen region became part of the Roman Empire. During this period a Roman warehouse was located in the area of Oberesslingen. The nearest major Roman settlements and garrisons were at Cannstatt and Koengen.
In 777, Esslingen was first mentioned in the last will of Abbot Fulrad from Saint-Denis Abbey near Paris, the chaplain of Pippin and Charlemagne. He bequeathed the church sixth cell upon the river Neckar to his monastery, Saint-Denis. He also brought the bones of Saint Vitalis to Esslingen, which made it a destination for pilgrims and led to its growth.
Around 800, Esslingen became a market town, with its market rights being certified in 866. Between 949 and 953, the town was a possession of Ludolf, Duke of Swabia. In 1181, Esslingen was made a free imperial city by Emperor Frederick I, and in 1229, the town finally received city rights from Emperor Frederick II. During the same period the still-extant Neckar bridge was built, making Esslingen a major centre for trade on the route between Italy, Switzerland, and northern Germany. Market and taxes provided by the bridge led to further growth of the town, as did the export of the highly regarded wines from the region.
In the 13th century, mendicant orders settled in these parts. Black, grey and white friars, who had received major donations, began building abbeys and churches in the city area. In 1488, the Imperial Diet, the deliberative body of the Holy Roman Empire, was hold in Esslingen. On this occasion the Swabian League was founded, which used to be a mutual defence and peace keeping association of imperial estates, like free imperial cities, prelates, principalities and knights.
During the Thirty Years War between 1618 and 1648, about half of Esslingen’s population lost their lives, mainly due to famine and epidemics. In 1803, during the Napoleonic era, the town lost its independence as a free imperial city, becoming part of the newly founded Electorate of Wuerttemberg. However, the first half of the 19th century was also characterized by the beginning industrialization. Glove manufacturing, food processing, textile production and metal working were early industries in Esslingen. On 20th November 1845 the first train ran from Cannstatt to Esslingen station.
Starting in April 1945, at the very end of World War II, Esslingen was occupied by U.S. troops. As it was peaceably surrendered by the approaching allied forces, the city suffered very little damage. Thus the medieval character of its city centre has been mostly preserved. In the post-war era, about 47,000 people moved to Esslingen, mostly refugees and displaced persons from East Germany. New housing developments had to be created to overcome the shortage of housing. In 1973, the Nuertingen district was merged with Esslingen, making the city finally the seat of a much enlarged district.
A Merry Christmas 2019 to all of you! Have a great festive season together with your families and friends!
Driven in Christine ( 1983)
120 mph
290 horsepower
24 built ( est ) "Christines"
$3067
The Petersen Automotive Museum is on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles California USA
For the video; youtu.be/WHhWjIkpdBQ
HMS NUBIAN F131
Class……………………………Type 81 Tribal Class
Builder…………………………Portsmouth Dockyard
Yard number……………….
Laid down..…………………. 7 Sep 1959
Launched….………………….6 Sep 1960
Completed.…………………..9 Oct 1962
Propulsion.…………………… 1 shaft driven by COSAG: 1 set Metrovick geared steam turbines with steam provided by 1 Babcock & Wilcox boiler + AEI G6 gas turbine
Speed..………………………….27 knots
Range……………………………..4500 nm at 12 knots
Fate…………………………….1987: 27 May : Sunk as a target in the North Atlantic.
An undated photograph of HMS NUBIAN
The Toyota 2000GT is a limited-production, front-engine, rear-wheel drive, two-seat, hardtop coupé grand tourer designed by Toyota in collaboration with Yamaha. First displayed to the public at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1965, the 2000GT was manufactured under contract by Yamaha between 1967 and 1970. In Japan, it was exclusive to Toyota's Japanese retail sales channel called Toyota Store.
The 2000GT revolutionized the automotive world's view of Japan. The 2000GT demonstrated that Japanese auto manufacturers could produce a sports car to rival those of Europe, in contrast to Japan's image at the time as a producer of imitative and stodgily practical vehicles. Reviewing a pre-production 2000GT in 1967, Road & Track magazine summed up the car as "one of the most exciting and enjoyable cars we've driven", and compared it favorably to the Porsche 911. Today, the 2000GT is seen as the first seriously collectible Japanese car and the first "Japanese supercar". Examples of the 2000GT have sold at auction for as much as US $1,200,000.[2 Much of the work was done by Yamaha, which in addition to its wide product range of the time also did much work for other Japanese manufacturers. Many credit the German-American designer Albrecht Goertz, a protégé of Raymond Loewy, as inspiration for the car, who had previously worked with Nissan to create the Silvia. He had gone to Yamaha in Japan in the early 1960s to modernize Nissan's two-seater sports car called the Fairlady. A prototype was built, but Nissan decided not to pursue the project with Yamaha. Yamaha also contracted for Toyota, then perceived as the most conservative of the Japanese car manufacturers. Wishing to improve their image, Toyota accepted the proposal, but employed a design from their own designer Satoru Nozaki.
Styling
Toyota 2000GT from rear
Toyota 2000GT dashboard
The 2000GT design is widely considered a classic in its own right. Its smoothly flowing "coke bottle styling" bodywork was executed in aluminium and featured pop-up headlights, as well as large plexiglas covered driving lamps on either side of the grille similar to those on the Toyota Sports 800. The design scarcely featured bumpers at all, and the plexiglas driving lamp covers in particular are rather easily damaged. The car was extremely low, just 45.7 in (116 cm) to the highest point of the roof. In 1969, the front was modified slightly, making the driving lamps smaller and changing the shape of the turn signals. The rear turn signals were enlarged at the same time, and some alterations were made to modernise the interior. The last few vehicles were fitted with air conditioning and had automatic transmission as an option. These cars had an additional scoop fitted underneath the grille to supply air to the A/C unit. Two custom open-top models were built for the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, but a factory-produced convertible was never offered during the car's production run.
The interior offered comfortable, if cramped, accommodation and luxury touches like a rosewood-veneer dashboard and an auto-seeking radio tuner. At the time, Road & Track felt that the interior was up to par for a "luxurious GT", calling it an impressive car "in which to sit or ride - or simply admire."
Technical details
The 3M DOHC 2.0 liter inline six
The 2M SOHC 2.3 liter inline six
The engine was a 2.0 L (121 in³) straight-6 (the 3M) based on the engine in the top-of-the-line Toyota Crown sedan. It was transformed by Yamaha with a new double overhead camshaft head into a 112 kW (150 hp) sports car engine. Carburation was through three two-barrel Solex 40 PHH units. Nine special MF-12 models were also built with the larger but SOHC 2.3 L 2M engine. The car was available with three different final drives. Fitted with a 4.375 ratio axle, the car was said[by whom?] to be capable of reaching 135 mph (217 km/h) and achieve 7.59 L/100 km (31 mpg-US; 37 mpg-imp).[3]
The engine was longitudinally mounted and drove the rear wheels through a five-speed manual transmission. A limited slip differential was fitted, and in a first for a Japanese car, all-round power-assisted disc brakes. The atypical emergency brake gripped the rear disc directly.
Production
Only 351 (regular production cars) of the 2000GT were built, figures comparable to elite Italian supercar production of the day. According to Toyota and Yamaha data, there were 233 MF10s, 109 MF10Ls, and nine MF12Ls. All were actually built by Yamaha; it took two years for production vehicles to emerge. In America, the 2000GT sold for about $6,800, much more than contemporary Porsches and Jaguars. It is believed that no profit was made on the cars despite their high price; they were more concept cars and a demonstration of ability than a true production vehicle. About 60 cars reached North America and the others were similarly thinly spread worldwide. Most 2000GTs were painted either red or white.
Racing
Toyota entered the 2000GT in competition at home, coming third in the 1966 Japanese Grand Prix and winning the Fuji 24-Hour Race in 1967. In addition, the car set several FIA world records for speed and endurance in a 72-hour test. Unfortunately, the record car was destroyed in a pace car accident and eventually scrapped. These records shortly prompted Porsche to prepare a 911R especially to beat this record.
Carroll Shelby would also enter a pair of 2000GTs to compete in the SCCA production car races competing in the CP category. Initially Shelby built three cars, including one spare. Although performing well, 1968 was the only season the car competed in the US. Toyota took back one of the cars and rebuilt it into a replica of their record car, which still resides in Japan. The two remaining Shelby cars still reside in the United States.
2000GT Open-Top, the “Bond Model”
2000GT used in the James Bond film, You Only Live Twice
The 2000GT made its most famous screen appearance in the 1967 James Bond movie You Only Live Twice, most of which was filmed in Japan. Even though the car was never commercially available as a convertible, two were made specially for the film. However, they did not have roofs, just an upholstered hump at the rear of the cabin to simulate a folded top, and therefore were not fully functioning convertibles. Prior to the decision to make fully roofless cars, building the car as a targa was tried, allegedly due to Sean Connery's height not allowing him to fit into the ultra-low coupé version. This retained the hatchback of the original car, but eliminated the rear side windows. However, when the Targa was completed, Connery's head stuck out of the top to such an extent that it was decided it looked too ridiculous and that roofless versions would have to be made if the car was to be featured in the film. Toyota were able to create a convertible version in a mere two weeks after being notified of this shortcoming. The car was mainly driven by his girlfriend Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi) in the film.[4]
Today
Although not quite as well known to the general public as later Japanese sports cars like the Nissan Z, the 2000GT is regarded by many collectors as possibly the first highly collectible Japanese car. As of 2010, good examples can reach very high auction prices, though parts availability is a problem. Some combination of interesting provenance (particularly the first and second owners) and cosmetic perfection seems to be the formula for the highest auction values.
Pakenham Mill is a five storey tower mill. It has a domed cap with a gallery and is winded by a fantail. Two of the three pairs of millstones remain. The governors for the millstones are driven by chains instead of the more usual belt.
The Mill was built in 1831. and came into the ownership of the Bryant family in 1885. The mill was restored in 1950, with a new weatherbeam. At this time the swing-pot neck bearing from Buxhall mill was installed. A second-hand stock from Thurston post mill was fitted at this time and a gallery constructed around the cap. New sails were also fitted.
Further restoration took place in 1961. A new stock and two new sails were made, and the fantail rebuilt. The mill was struck by lightning in June 1971, a stock being split and a sail damaged. The sack chain saved the mill from being burnt down by giving a route for the lightning to earth. When the mill was repaired, a lightning conductor was added to the mill.
The most recent restoration of Pakenham windmill was completed in May 2000. The £60,000 cost of the work was 80% funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The work was carried out by Thompson's of Alford.
"[W]e have created an environment for us which isn't what it should be. And we're out of our depth all the time. We're living exactly on the borderline between the natural world from which we are being driven out, or we're driving ourselves out of it, and that other world which is generated by our brain cells" (W.G. Sebald).
I've worked in Brunswick, Georgia for years and driven over the Sidney Lanier Bridge hundreds of times. It is a popular place for locals to exercise and for the first time I did a workout there. It is an amazing structure. There are not many places along the Georgia coast where one can gain 185 feet of vertical in a workout. Of course, I was working out with my heavy camera bag on just in case. For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Lanier_Bridge
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AF Corse (I)
Driven by: Darryl O'Young (HK)/Piergiuseppe Perazzini (I)/Lorenzo Casè (I)
Result: 26th (43 laps behind the winner)
Grid: 51st (4:03.966)
Fleet No 1991. The first of two "new" Open Top buses for Southern Vectis, this was converted from the service fleet at the Nelson Road Depot in Newport. . Previously HW52EPK, 1991 is liveried for use on the Needles Breezer service. The second bus, 1992, was converted at Hants & Dorset Trim in Eastleigh and has just recently arrived back on the Island but is not yet in service as I post this.