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Fine examples of what where known as "Top shops" the large rear windows allow daylight into the rooms above the family homes of the workers making components for watches - in this case - or ribbon weaving in other areas of the then town such as Hillfields on the other side of the city centre.
Components where placed into boxes and carried to the master watchmakers up the street who made the finished product. Cheap imports from Switzerland along with the lifting of import taxes on cloth threw the town into decline.
This was reversed by a number of factors, firstly,
intervention: Lord Leigh's founding of a Worsted cloth mill in the next street (1862) which marked the beginning of factories as we know them today.
Luck: The start in licenced production of American sewing machines (1861) just as that nation turned over all it's industry to arms production for the civil war.
Opportunism: The start of production of French designed velocipedes just as that country started a war with Prussia (1870-71) setting the french cycle manufacturers back for a while, but propelling Coventry on the road to industrial recovery and the start of the Cycle/Motorcycle/Car industry that still exists in one form or another to this day.
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The daily Decatur & Eastern Illinois local out of Decatur crosses a rural road est of Tuscola, Illinois, on track that once was owned by the Baltimore & Ohio.
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Brand: Maisto
Series: N/A
Livery: Black/white stripes, Tonka
Scale: 1/64
Base: Black plastic - ©1998 Tonka / Hasbro
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Country of manufacture: China
Place/date of purchase: Value Village 2021
Condition: A few nicks 9/10
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Egg + Light, No Condiments
For the technically-inclined, see companion pic -- mini studio made from a cardboard box and tracing paper, two strobes on the bg through paper, one strobe inside the box, focused and popping up and through the egg from behind. All triggered by Phottix Ares. Fuji kits lens w/a +4 diopter.
(I have no idea why the EXIF says the flash did not fire...)
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Abel Chane, 6, smiles holding his little black board after writing numbers on it. Abel loves to school and because he gets to “play with his friends”. Like Abel, children enrolled in at least one year of pre-primary education are more likely to develop the critical skills they need to succeed in school. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2019/Mulugeta Ayene
An alternate model for 42106 Stunt Show Truck & Bike.
Inspired by typical three axle road graders
Comes with four manual functions, which are HoG steering, front and main blades and rear ripper.
Front blade can be raised with a lever. Main blade is operated by a gear rack. Rear ripper is operated by lever located in the cab
Model comes with instructions and they can be bought on Sellfy and Rebrickable:
📗https://sellfy.com/m1longer
📙https://rebrickable.com/users/M_longer/mocs/
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSSsFHW4nzk
More pictures can be found at:
bricksafe.com/pages/M_longer/42106-road-grader
All lights are mounted on half pins, which means that they will spin freely. To avoid that oddly looking lamps, you can add few stripes of paper on each pin, locking it securely.
Traveling between the airport in Greenville, SC and my work location west of Asheville, NC allowed me to drive past the steepest standard-gauge mainline railroad grade in the United States. On my way back to the airport to fly home, I made a detour off of I-26 to see this famous stretch of track located in Saluda, NC.
I had seen photos before but they simply do not do justice for just how steep this 2.6 miles of track actually is. What a sight (and sound) this operation must have been back when it was active. To only be able to go back in time!
Nothing could possibly take me back to being a kid than a hand full of these.
Fresh and fragrant, they are so much more than jawbreakers.
They are Atomic Fireballs! Cinnamon flavored and intense, they each are made from a single grain of sugar.
From the Ferrara Candy Company of Chicago since 1954, 15 million are now consumed each week.
They still taste the same.