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I've been hearing bits and pieces about Fleet Foxes and their new album, Helplessness Blues in the news lately and it again spurs controversy and questions about "free music dowloading" and all of that. I'm a person who spends quite alot of money on records but I will say I like to hear a record first and I also can appreciate the idea of an honor system-the songs are available and if you like them you should support the musicians/band by buying the album. I know alot of people are struggling economically but it makes sense if you value art and music to support it to me.
Thoughts?
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Out in 86, the cosmic fleet voyager was my favourite set as a kid. Here is the front part of the ship. The Lab in the back will come later.
Main picture here. ^^
The latest addition to The Big Lemon Coaches fleet is this Mercedes 814 Plaxton Cheetah Y259 NAK. Purchased from Charlton Coach Hire, this vehicle will operate school services during the week and local private hires at weekends. This now makes 5 large coaches , 1 small midicoach & 1 support van making up the coaching fleet. It’s worth noting this fleet list as The Big Lemon Coaches Limited trades separate to the The Big Lemon CIC which is now solely the bus operations.
The sole example of an ALX500 in the Network Buses fleet represents an unusual acquisition.
This is a very large bus with real crowd-shifting ability. Its appearance in red livery would suggest it will not be assigned to either the C16 or C20 college routes (the preserve of buses in a blue variant of the main fleet livery and current haunt of most of the fleets other tri-axle buses) so it may be earmarked for the imminent reintroduction of the limited stop 8X service.
This follows much the same route as the all-stops route 8 and was discontinued in 2009 due to low patronage.
Its expected to reappear in early July and this dual door, aircon bus with high-back seats and good legroom should appeal to the business customers the 8X targets.
Its photographed in Innistoige village at the terminus of the 48, presumably out on test in advance of receiving an allocation and still sporting its Hong Kong number blinds, despite being in full NB livery.
Because we can. A run out in preserved former Stagecoach Dennis Dart SLF / Plaxton Pointer 2 B37F 33306 AE51VFV in August 2024.
AEC Fleet Planner: Ergomatic Tilt Cab Vehicles for the UK.
AEC Gazette, July-August 1965.
aecsouthall.co.uk collection
Neil F.
- Fleet: 5447
- Reg: NK66 EVH
- Operator: Go North East
- Route: 16
- Depot: Consett
- Livery: Durham Diamond
- Type: Wright Streetlite DF
- Bodywork: Wright Streetlite Max Micro Hybrid
- Livery New In: Durham Diamond
- New to/ Year: Go North East / 2016
- Location: Consett Bus Station
Type: Completed Display Model.
Name: Medalusa Class Heavy Battleship Megaluda.
Series: Cosmo Fleet Special.
Origin: Space Battleship Yamato.
Brand: MegaHouse.
Scale: Non.
Material: ABS and PVC.
Release Date: Jan 2016.
*Note: Pic not by us. This is a completed display model collected by my BB or me from many years ago. More in My Collection Corner.
Between 2009-2010, close photography friends and I found ourselves monomaniacally obsessed with documenting the last days of the Suisun Bay Mothball Fleet (which is now largely scrapped). These trips were not officially sanctioned. In fact, we received a lot of grief because of it. Despite that, it was one of the proudest moments of my life. Countless volunteers, museums, and small organizations had made efforts to save these maritime time capsules to no avail - despite their monumental efforts. The ships' contribution to bay water pollution didn't help in their preservation cause.
Thousands upon thousands of seamen and women remember these ships, but only a small fraction of the ships remain to be remembered. Pictured here is the mess hall floor of the U.S.S. Glacier. The Glacier was an improved icebreaker, but only larger and more powerful. Its bow had the characteristic sloping nose, enabling the ship ride up heavy ice and break it with the weight of the vessel. When built, Glacier had the largest capacity single armature DC motors ever installed on a ship and could break ice up to 20 feet thick.
We were almost apprehended on this ship, but she protected us at a critical moment. I will always miss this majestic ship's hidden nooks and crannies, its crows' nest and the numerous hand-painted murals designed by the Coast Guard crew.
We lose things constantly. At the very least, society should allow us to document them, but that - too - rarely happens quickly enough...
Stunning new additions to the Blackpool fleet are ten of these buses such as 407 (SN16OVH) painted in the company's new livery. These are the first brand new double-deckers for the company since a batch of East Lancs bodied Alexander Dennis Tridents came in 2006 - incidentally these were some of the last Tridents built before production switched to the then new Enviro 400.
Blackpool has been upgrading its fleet and introduced the 'Palladium' brand to specify services run with higher quality vehicles. It was first introduced on a batch of Mercedes-Benz Citaro's bought in 2015 and since then has been expanded to include a batch of Plaxton Centro bodied Volvo B7RLE, which until the Merc's were the fleets newest buses and which arrived in 2010.
However, for double-deckers it has bought something very different. This was a batch of the first single-door pure diesel Enviro 400 City buses for a UK-operator. The Enviro 400 City is a variant of the MMC which uses some New Routemaster styling cues. It was developed primarily for London and met Transport for London's desire to have more of the buses having a standard look. However, unlike the Wrightbus version - The SRM based Volvo B5LH - it is a distinctly ADL product. The SRM suffers - in my opinion - for looking too much like a New Routemaster and for the lack of a back window.
The ADL Enviro 400 City I feel is a better balanced design enhanced by the livery which follows the flow of the bus. Although launched as a hybrid it was always available as a pure diesel and has already achieved what the New Routemaster didn't as its attracted an order from a fleet outside London. Buses magazine reports that a further 25 are due to arrive in 2017.
A really nice little loop of Fleet Pond. Just avoided the rain and chatted to a couple of nice old ladies. Happy day's for a Friday.