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A 1974 Pontiac Grand Ville hardtop coupe, seen under the L tracks.
(This is the "unprocessed" version of another shot which appears earlier in my photostream.)
Lakeview, Chicago, Illinois.
On Sheridan Rd., near Sheffield.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011.
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A men using his motorbike as a bakery store and ride it through every corners of Saigon to reach his customers. This kind of business is very popular in Saigon. His motorbike's number plate (36) shows that he from Thanh Hoa province, a quite poor and undeveloped province in Central Vietnam.
Body: Nikkormat EL
Lens: Nikkor-S 50-1.4
Film: FujiColor 100
Mit Hilfe eines Schwungrades können Lagekorrekturen und Positionswechsel des Landers vorgenommen werden.
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Mobility International/USA: A group shot of the 29 women with disabilities from around the world who participated in the 2010 Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability (WILD) leadership program in Eugene, Oregon. Photo Credit: www.kiefelphotography.com)
Piaggio Gita, il robot maggiordomo per la futura mobilità delle merci via www.diggita.it/v.php?id=1578923
Another of the resin military vehicle kits from Kingfisher Miniatures, this one has been heavily modified for its civilian role. The original kit represents the Foden S90 'Low Mobility' 8x4 flatbed as supplied to the British Army in the 1970s, but I have shortened it, removed an axle and fitted a generator and fifth wheel to create a freelance 6x4 showman's artic unit,
Photo : Patrice Airoldi. Reproduction autorisée avec mention de la source.
Rollout de la Re 460 094-6 avec sa publicité "Mobility".
6/22/2019 A visitor on a mobility scooter in Coney Island after the Mermaid Parade. Sony a7. 7Artisans 35mm 1:2.0.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
Fortune Brainstorm E - Austin, TX, USA
11:00 AM
INTELLIGENT WHEELS
Silicon Valley is infiltrating the transportation sector faster than anyone thought possible only a few years ago. New software-based technologies such as advanced cruise control, collision avoidance systems and self-parking are leading toward the self-driving car, which will not only reduce accidents but will also make driving more efficient. Uber, which is shaking up the taxi industry, is now working with Carnegie Mellon to build self-driving cars. Automated mobility will not only reduce accidents but also will making driving more efficient. In addition, the way we use cars is changing. Car sharing services have become popular with millennials, leading some to wonder how the auto industry will be impacted by sharing instead of buying vehicles. Where are we in this race and which technologies will prevail?
Jerome Guillen, Former Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Service, Tesla Motors
Stefan Knupfer, Director, McKinsey
Margo Oge, Former Director, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, U.S. EPA; Author, Driving the Future
Moderator: Sue Callaway, Senior Editor, Automotive, Time Inc.
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Brainstorm E
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The Tiger I was a German heavy tank of World War II deployed from 1942 in Africa and Europe usually in independent heavy tank battalions. Its final designation was Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger Ausf. E often shortened to Tiger. The Tiger I gave the Wehrmacht its first armored fighting vehicle that mounted the KwK 36 88-mm gun. Production lasted from August 1942 until August 1944, but production phased out in favor of the Tiger II.
The Tiger differed from earlier German tanks principally in its design philosophy. Its predecessors balanced mobility, armor and firepower, but were sometimes outgunned by their opponents. The Tiger I represented a new approach that emphasized firepower and armor. While heavy, this tank was not slower than the best of its opponents.
Although the general design and layout were broadly similar to the previous medium tank, the Panzer IV, the Tiger weighed more than twice as much – roundabout 50 tons. This was due to its substantially thicker armor, the larger main gun, greater volume of fuel and ammunition storage, larger engine, and more solidly built transmission and suspension.
Among the few variants of the Tiger were the BergeTiger recovery vehicle, a demolition carrier version of the Tiger I without a main gun and a heavily armored self-propelled rocket projector, today commonly known as Sturmtiger, and a self-propelled tank destroyer, the Jagdpanzer VI “Keiler”.
The latter was a response from Krupp to a request made by the Army General Staff in early 1942 to mount a 128 mm gun on a self-propelled, armored chassis. The Tiger chassis appeared to be the only available basis for such a carrier, so the Jagdpanzer VI was a logical extension of the creation of Jagdpanzer designs from combat tank designs, such as the Jagdpanther from the Panther tank.
Like the Sturmtiger, the Jagdpanzer VI was based on the late model Tiger I, keeping its hull, engine and suspension. The front of the Tiger's superstructure was removed to make room for the new fixed casemate-style fighting compartment housing a 128 mm PaK 44 L/55 cannon. The gun was fed with two-piece ammunition, the projectile and cartridge making up separate pieces. Because of this, the gun could be fired using three different sized propellant charges, a light, medium and heavy charge. The light and medium charges were only used when the gun was fulfilling an artillery piece role, where they would launch the ~28 kg projectiles to a muzzle velocity of 845 m/s and 880 m/s respectively. The heavy charge (which itself weighed ~15 kg) was used when the gun was fulfilling its intended role as an anti-tank gun, where it fired a 28.3 kg APCBC-HE projectile (PzGr.43) at a muzzle velocity of 950 m/s. With the heavy charge, and using the PzGr.43 projectile, the Pak 44 was capable of penetrating just over 200 millimetres (7.9 in) of 30 degree sloped armor at 1000 meters, and 148 millimetres (5.8 in) at 2,000 metres (2,200 yd) range
The main gun mount had a limited traverse of only 10 degrees; the entire vehicle had to be turned to aim outside that narrow field of fire. In order to withstand any frontal attack, the sloped front was 150mm thick and angled at 47°, offering formidable protection. Even the side walls of the large upper structure were 62mm thick and able to withstand angled hits.
Through the heavy gun and extra armor the overall weight rose from the Tiger I’s 60 to 68 tonnes. But this was regarded as acceptable since the Jagdpanzer VI would rather be employed in defensive/static tactics and less in a “hit and run” manner.
The first prototype, constructed from a recovered and revamped Tiger I chassis, was ready and presented in October 1943. Delivery of the first hulls would occur in December 1943, with the first three pre-production Jagdpanzer VIs completed by Alkett by 20 February 1944.
Due to delays, serial production did not start before April 1944, and the lack of new Tiger chassis led to the modification of recovered combat tanks. 12 superstructures and weapons for the Jagdpanzer VI had already been prepared, and the first production Jagdpanzer VIs were completed by Alkett in June 1944. The original order comprised 200 vehicles, but this was not fulfilled: Until the end of 1944, only 38 more Jagdpanzer VI were completed and delivered to units at the Western and Eastern front, where they served under the unofficial name “Keiler” (Wild Boar) to the end of the war.
On the production lines the Jagdpanzer VI was soon replaced by the even heavier Jagdtiger, a derivative of the Panzer VII “Königstiger” battle tank. The Jagdpanzer VI, much like its successor, suffered from a variety of mechanical and technical problems due to its immense weight and under-powered engine. The vehicle had frequent breakdowns; ultimately more Jagdpanzer VI were lost to mechanical problems or lack of fuel than to enemy action.
Specifications:
Crew: Six (commander, gunner, 2x loader, driver, radio operator/bow machine-gunner)
Weight: 68 tonnes (75 short tons; 67 long tons)
Length: 6.316 m (20 ft 8.7 in) hull; 7.02 metres (23 ft 0 in) with gun
Width: 3.57 m (11 ft 9 in)
Height: 2.84 metres (9 ft 4 in) w/o AA machine gun
Suspension: Torsion-bar
Ground clearance: 0.47 m (1 ft 7 in)
Fuel capacity: 540 l (140 US gal) including reserve
Armor:
28 –150 mm (1.1 – 5.9 in)
Performance:
Speed
- Maximum, road: 39 km/h (24 mph)
- Sustained, road: 26 km/h (16 mph)
- Cross country: 16 km/h (10 mph)
Operational range: 110–195 km (68–121 mi)
Power/weight: 10.77 PS/tonne
Engine:
V-12, water-cooled Maybach HL230P45 engine with 700 PS (690 hp, 515 kW)
Transmission:
Maybach-Olvar hydraulically controlled semi-automatic pre-selector eight-speed gearbox
Armament:
1× 12,8 cm 12.8 cm Pak 44 with 45 rounds
2× 7.92 mm Maschinengewehr 34; one in the front bow and provision for an
AA machine gun on the commander’s cupola (total 2.500 rounds)
The kit and its assembly:
Another German whif tank, and this one was inspired by the typical German procedure to build a tank destroyer variant from current combat types with turrets, but with a hull-mounted, bigger gun. While there was the Elefant/Ferdinand tank destroyer, based on the surplus Tiger I Porsche chassis and armed with the powerful 8.8cm Pak 43/2 L/71, and the "Sturer Emil" (12.8 cm Selbstfahrlafette L/61) self-propelled anti-tank gun, why not combine both?
A potential basis was already available, both in real life and in kit form: the Sturmtiger, of which two Trumpeter kits are available in 1:72.
The kit was mostly built OOB, fit is very good except for the hull front where you recognize that it’s basically a Tiger I kit with different parts – a gap had to be closed with putty, but the rest went together smoothly. Mounting all those wheels (32!) and the tight, wide track was a bit tricky, though.
A personal addition is the commander’s cupola, taken from a Panther turret, the large opening on the roof for the Sturmtiger’s large mortar rounds was sanded away and replaced by a smaller door. The original short mortar barrel was replaced with a white metal 12.8cm barrel for a Jagdtiger. In order to fit it onto the OOB base, and adapter had to be scratched from styrene tubes, and an additional, upper shield for the mantlet was added.
Painting and markings:
I wanted something simple, and went for a winter camouflage – seen on a Tiger I. The scheme consists of a base in Sandgelb (I used RAL 8000, today Grünbraun, which is a bit darker and actually a German WWII desert color, Gelbbraun, used 1941 in North Africa) over which simple white horizontal stripes were painted manually. The basic tone was applied from a rattle can, the stripes painted with a brush.
On top of that a dark brown acrylic weathering wash (an irregular mix of black and Raw Sienna) was applied, the few decals added and protected with matt varnish, and then a coat of snow was applied.
As a side note: the black white rings on the gun barrel are a detail taken over from German Tiger I crews: these are kill markers, created from decals that are original intended to be wrapped around USN arrester hooks… ;)
Simulating snow is always tricky, esp. at small scales. If you use paint, it just looks like that, because the snow coat’s depth is missing. You also have to make sure that the coat primarily covers the upper/horizontal surfaces, and you need a certain “unevenness” for a good impression.
My favorite method and material is white tile grout. It is water-based, fade-resistant (plaster turns yellow over time) and can be applied just like real snow flakes. Furthermore you can mix it with water for a more or less stable slush that can be applied to mudguards, wheels or other sections that accumulate snow and slobber.
Application is easy: at first I stained the lower hull and the chassis section with tile grout slush. After thorough drying the kit was wetted with low surface tension water, gently sprayed onto it. The dry tile grout is then dusted onto the kit with the help of an improvised “shaker”: a glass covered with a nylon stocking. This “tool” offers a fine mesh that even can be adjusted, depending how tight you span it over the glass – the less tension, the finer the tile grout flakes are, and the less material you rinse over the object. It also prevents lumps and clusters of tile grout from landing on the kit.
I tried to apply the flakes evenly all over the kit directly from above, until a closed blanket of snow covered the upper hull. I also made sure that enough tile grout flakes would end on the sloped side walls. An uneven “smeared” or slumped look was welcome – actually, the whole snow coat was created through gravity with no manual interference. You can easily over-do and –manipulate the finish.
While still wet (some of the dark brown wash became liquid again, mixing with the white tile grout and creating a muddy, if not rusty look in certain areas) the snow was stabilized with hair spray. While wet, the engine’s cooling openings were emphasized with a little bit if black ink. Later, when everything had dried thoroughly, a coat of acrylic matt varnish from the rattle can fixed the coat of fake snow further. Actually, only little of the original paint scheme can be made out, but I kept the finish just the way it turned out.
The Jagdpanzer VI turned out well, even though I had to fight with the tight tracks. And I am amazed how Russian it looks, through the long gun barrel?
Anyway, the winter finish sets the kit apart from standard liveries, even though taking pictures took some extra effort because the winter bases had to be prepared accordingly. One of these, for instance, is a generic stock piece from a tabletop game, pimped with some higher grass and bushes, some murky umbra color to tone the bright grass fibers down and then covered under a coat of snow.
Typical scene in any British seaside resort. I think he is saying "mine is faster than yours and how about a drag race down the prom"
Once pushed off the end of the sliding table, the outrigger table and crosscut fence attached to it can be rotated up as shown. Be careful here: the top part of the table and the section of the crosscut fence above the pivot points is about twice the weight of the opposite end of the table, so it is very top heavy. It's easy for this to get away from you as you push the mobility cart around on it's casters - especially when trying to roll it over something like a screw, nail, air hose, crack in the floor, etc.
This was built for a souped-up moblity scooter owned by an elderly customer of ours. Pull a release catch to lower back the tray, and it will stand back up and lock into place as the scooter is loaded on. We dabbled in trailers for a little while, but no longer - it's all trolleys these days!
What? You want me to be Boris Johnson's body double??
It would be an honour and a privilege if it wasn't for the fact that I'm not a brainless blithering idiot with pretensions of grandeur and a need to push Britain as far right as possible!
How about using UKRAP's Farage he has about as much nous as Johnson and he's already aligned with Europe's right wing fascists.
This couple made me smile. The ladies mobility buggy had run out of battery power so the man had been pushing her along the pavement with his : )
I liked their England bumper stickers as well.
Why are mobility scooters nearly always metallic red?
VICTORIA STEAM EXPOSITION IV
Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery,[1] especially in a setting inspired by industrialized Western civilization during the 19th century. Therefore, steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century's British Victorian era or American "Wild West", in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam power has regained mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. Steampunk perhaps most recognizably features anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. Such technology may include fictional machines like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or the modern authors Philip Pullman, Scott Westerfeld, Stephen Hunt and China Miéville.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk
The premiere steampunk event in the Dominion of Canada returned for a fourth year in Victoria, British Columbia. Where previous years have been encased in palaces of cut-crystal and gleaming brass, this year it's the gritty back-alleys of the 19th century colonial capital which are brought to the fore – after-hours corners and upstairs dives where the paths of explorers and inventors cross with those of airship scoundrels & duplicitous courtesans.