man_17 photos on Flickr

For the full story regarding this collection of images Please read the NEW album introduction HERE; www.flickr.com/photos/jbschofield/sets/72157632196706891/... It tells a much fuller story than that provided below.

This is a scanned print from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection consisted of 30,000 prints,20,000 negatives – and copyright! Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them.

I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jims work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work.

You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC's - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine. To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads in this Album – I didn't take them!

None of my photographs are free to use - only free to view!

Please read the album intro’ before contacting me with requests, it may answer your query.

Thank you for taking the time to look and best regards

Mark Schofield

tn_IMGP7789 by leylandmad

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The Omnibus Society Wellington www.omnibus.org.nz held a fundraising bus trip on 01-05-2011. 1508 (soon to be renumbered 2308 formerly Redbus Christchurch 695 (MAN 17.223) Reg CTP64 was the bus for the trip.

Go Wellington generously granted use of this bus which has been recently acquired from Redbus as it had become surplus to their needs, the trip was in aid of The Tramway Historical Society www.ferrymeadtramway.org.nz who after the February 22 earthquake and subsequent return of the City Tramways hired trams need to build another storage barn to enable them to be kept under cover till they can return to the streets of Christchurch's CBD.

Seen here arriving in Lambton Quay with the former Government Buildings, now Victoria University Law School in the background. This building is the 2nd largest wooden structure in the world and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.

NZBus MAN 17.223 in Auckland on 15/02/2021 by Nateydog001

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