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ExCel is very close to City Airport, and occasionally the roar of a plane muffles sound in the arenas.
A Mercedes-Benz 516CDi/Excel C19F mini-coach taking a break at Tesco's in Macclesfield
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10/2011 - new as LX61 ANF to Ludlow; Little Wenlock (SH).
01/2012 - re-registered BU53 JON.
??/???? - reverted to LX61 ANF.
09/2014 - passed to Whitegate Travel; Anderton (CH)
I've heard that there was a chance Countryliner have been using one of their Optare Excels, usually used by the Sussex operations, on school route 87.
So I went to investigate today, and bingo!
I had found a really good photo spot for it, but 12 or so minutes after it was due, I started wandering back down the road. Lo and behold, it then turned up.
Still, I didn't make the mistake of giving up on it entirely, that's a mistake I've made too many times before!
Seen here at Benham's Corner, Chobham, XL100 (R100 PAR) is returning from Collingwood College on the 87. It was 14 minutes late - I guess it got stuck leaving the school.
Vicarage Road, Benham's Corner, Chobham, Surrey.
A Mercedes-Benz 413CDi/Excel minibus that at the time was the smallest member of this immaculately presented fleet.
Location; Lymm Services, Cheshire.
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04/2002 - new to Lakeside; Ellesmere (SH).
04/2015 - passed to Jones; Flint (CN)
New to Harris Bus, Grays and then with East Thames Buses, Optare Excel P320 KAR had latterly been with South Gloucestershire of Patchway before ending up with this dealer in October 2009. It was not to run again and was stripped for spares the following year.
HRH Queen Elizabeth II in Valletta Malta Europe 1992. His Excelency President Emeritus of Malta Vincent Tabone behind. Looks very pleased.
Biography of Vincent Tabone born 30 March 1913 in Victoria, Gozo is a Maltese political figure. During World War II Tabone served as a Regimental Medical Officer and general duty officer with the Royal Malta Artillery, and later as trainee ophthalmic specialist stationed at the Military Hospital, Mtarfa. In the early days of the War, he narrowly escaped with his life when a bomb fell in St.Elmo fort and demolished a substantial part of the army barracks in which he was posted. In 1946, he obtained a diploma in Ophthalmology from the University of Oxford, followed by a diploma in Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was a clinical assistant at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.
In 1948, Tabone was entrusted with the supervision of a campaign to treat trachoma using sulfonamide tablets and drops. Through his efforts, the disease was virtually eliminated from the Island of Gozo. He helped launch similar campaigns in Taiwan, Indonesia and Iraq under the auspices of the World Health Organization, and subsequently served as a member and consultant of the WHO's International Panel of Trachoma Experts.
He served on the Council of the University of Malta, and between 1957 and 1960 he was a faculty member of the Board of Medicine, and a lecturer in Clinical Ophthalmology in the Department of Surgery. He helped found the Medical Association of Malta in 1954 and is at present its Honorary President. Dr. Tabone was nominated to the Nationalist Party Executive Committee in 1961, served as the party's Secretary General from 1962 to 1972, and as Deputy Leader from 24 June 1972 to 9 January 1977. He was first elected to Parliament in 1966, and subsequently served as a Member of Parliament for the Sliema, St. Julian's, Msida, and Gzira areas for 23 years. During his long political career, he also served as the Minister of Labour, Employment and Welfare between 1966 and 1971, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1987 and 1989. As Minister of Labour, Employment and Welfare, Tabone was responsible for the emigration portfolio, at a time when emigration from Malta to the Dominions of the British Empire and to the United States was at an all time high.
In 1968, Tabone brought a motion before the United Nations calling for an action plan in regard to the World's ageing population. In 1988, he brought a further motion before the U.N., calling for the World's climate to be declared the common heritage of mankind. He was the fourth President of Malta.
The Excel range replaced Hyundai's rear wheel drive Hyundai Pony but the Excel was sold under the Pony name in some markets - any front wheel drive Pony is actually an Excel.
Another one of those 'gradual design progression' cars, the Lotus Excel was largely based on the Lotus Eclat, which was based largely on the Lotus Elite II. But this is where that particular design chain came to an end.
The Lotus Excel was built between 1982 and 1992 as one of only a few cars on sale by the company while it was going through its difficult financial decade. At the time of production only the Esprit was really keeping the company afloat, with only these two cars being on sale until the construction of the Piazza, a joint venture with Isuzu. It wouldn't be until the return of the Elan in 1989 that the company would have developed another new Lotus.
The Excel, although not going down in history like the Esprit, has had some claim to fame with the Top Gear boys, with James May converting one into a Motorhome by simply placing an aircraft fuselage on its roof, and Richard Hammond turning one into a submarine for the James Bond 50th Anniversary special, creating a successful submersible car despite a few leaks here and there.