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Operator: Mulleys Motorways Ltd
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Registration: AE06YYU
Body/Chassis: Optare M920 Solo
Chassis No: SAB19000000002080
Seating: B??F
New: August 2006
Ex: Dews Coaches
Livery: Allover White
Date: Saturday 22nd July 2017
Location: Bury St Edmunds Bus Station
Route: 312 (Newmarket Bus Station)
Operator: First Eastern Counties Buses Ltd
Fleet No: 33151
Registration: LR02LXK
Body/Chassis: Dennis Trident Plaxton President
Chassis No: SFD136BR22GX22185
Seating: H39/24F
New: May 2002
Ex: Centrewest London Buses Ltd
Livery: First (Standard Barbie)
Date: Monday 13th June 2016
Location: Temple Road, Great Yarmouth
Route: 8 (Caister Marram Drive via Town Centre)
Operator: Go-Ahead (Go South Coast) - (More)
Make/Model: Optare Solo (M850)
Registration Number: MX53 FEF
Fleet Number: 3715
Operator: Reading Buses
Make/Model: Scania N94UD/East Lancs OmniDekka (H51/39F)
Registration Number: YN54 AEZ
Fleet Number: 808
Operator: Finland Army
Aircraft: NHIndustries NH90 TTH
Registration: NH-220
C/n: 1261/TFIA20
Time & Location: 10.11.2025, EFTP, Finland
Operator: First (Berkshire & The Thames Valley) - (Slough)
Make/Model: Dennis Trident 2/Plaxton President
Registration Number: LR02 LXH
Fleet Number: 33149
P1160575
Operator: First Eastern Counties Buses Ltd
Fleet No: 39480
Registration: JJD480D
Body/Chassis: AEC Routemaster Park Royal
Chassis No: R2RH/1/2494
Seating: H40/32R
New: May 1966
Ex: London Transport
Livery: London Red
Date: Tuesday 9th February 2016
Location: City College Norwich, Ipswich Road
Route: --
Operator : Hanwha Chemical Corp
Aircraft : Boeing 737-7HF(BBJ)
Registration : HL7227
Airport : Zürich (ZRH / LSZH)
Photo Date : 26.01.2013
Remarks : WEF World Economic Forum 2013
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Operator- Travel Express Lets Go
Operating Area- West Midlands
Make- East Lancs
Model- Esteem
Chassie- Dennis Dart
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Reg- PN07KRZ
Location Seen- Willenhall
Service- 303 to Bilston
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Seen- 6/7/23
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Registration Number: RG55 BUS
Fleet Number: 186
History: Stagecoach (47399) - (YM55 SVL)
View: Interior
Operator: French Air Force
Aircraft: Dassault Rafale C
Registration: 140 / 7-GS & 143 / 7-GS
C/n:
Time & Location: 15.06.2019, EFTU, Finland
Remarks: Tactical performance show.
USS Ranger (CV-4)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Class overview
Operators: United States Navy
Preceded by: Lexington class
Succeeded by: Yorktown class
Built: 1931–34
In commission: 1934–46
Completed: 1
Scrapped: 1
History
United States
Name: USS Ranger
Ordered: 1 November 1930
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.[1]
Laid down: 26 September 1931[2]
Launched: 25 February 1933[2]
Sponsored by: Lou Henry Hoover (the wife of the President of the United States)[3]
Commissioned: 4 June 1934[4]
Decommissioned: 18 October 1946[5]
Struck: 29 October 1946[5]
Honors and
awards:
American Defense Service Medal ("A" device)
American Campaign Medal
European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal (2 stars)[6][7]
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal
Fate: Acquired for scrap for $259K on 31 January 1947[5]
General characteristics
Type: Aircraft carrier
Displacement:
As built: 14,576 long tons (14,810 t) (standard)
17,577 long tons (17,859 t) (full load)
Length:
730 ft (222.5 m) (w/l)
769 ft (234.4 m) (o/a)
Beam:
80 ft (24.4 m) (waterline)[8]
109 ft 5 in (33.4 m) (overall)
Draft: 22 ft 4.875 in (6.8 m)
Installed power: 53,500 shp (39,900 kW)
Propulsion:
2 × steam turbines
6 × boilers
2 × shafts
Speed: 29.3 kn (33.7 mph; 54.3 km/h)[8]
Range: 10,000 nmi (12,000 mi; 19,000 km) at 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h)
Complement:
216 officers and 2,245 enlisted men including embarked air group(as built)[8]
2,148 (1941)
Sensors and
processing systems: CXAM-1 RADAR[9]
Armament:
8 × 5 in (127 mm)/25 cal anti-aircraft guns
40 × .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns
Armor:
Belt: 2 in (5.1 cm)
Bulkheads: 2 in (5.1 cm)
Deck: 1 in (2.5 cm) (over steering gear)
Aircraft carried:
86 (maximum)
76 (normal)
Aviation facilities:
3 × elevators
3 × catapults
USS Ranger (CV-4) was the first ship of the United States Navy to be designed and built from the keel up as an aircraft carrier. Ranger was a relatively small ship, closer in size and displacement to the first US carrier—Langley—than later ships. An island superstructure was not included in the original design, but was added after completion. Deemed too slow for use with the Pacific Fleet's carrier task forces,[10] the ship spent most of the war in the Atlantic Ocean.
Construction
Ranger was laid down on 26 September 1931 by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia,[2] launched on 25 February 1933,[2] sponsored by Lou Henry Hoover (the wife of the President of the United States),[3] and commissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard on 4 June 1934,[4] with Captain Arthur L. Bristol in command.[11]
Service history
Ranger's ship's insignia, adopted 1938
Inter-war period
Ranger conducted her initial flight operations off the Virginia Capes on 21 June 1934[12] and departed Norfolk on 17 August[13] for a shakedown training cruise that took her to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, and Montevideo.[12] She returned to Norfolk on 4 October[14] for operations off the Virginia Capes and two stints in dry dock for post trial repairs[15] until 1 April 1935,[16] when she sailed for the Pacific. Transiting the Panama Canal on 7 April,[16] she arrived in San Diego on the 15th.[16] For nearly four years, she participated in fleet problems reaching to Hawaii,[17] the first-ever carrier cold weather test trials in Alaska,[18] and in western seaboard operations that took her as far south as Callao, Peru,[19] and as far north as Seattle, Washington. On 4 January 1939, she departed San Diego for winter fleet operations in the Caribbean based at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.[20] She then steamed north to Norfolk, arriving on 20 April.[21]
Ranger cruised along the eastern seaboard out of Norfolk and into the Caribbean Sea. In the fall of 1939, she commenced Neutrality Patrol operations,[22] operating out of Bermuda along the trade routes of the middle Atlantic and up the eastern seaboard up to NS Argentia, Newfoundland.[citation needed]
World War II
1942
In December 1941, she was returning to Norfolk from an ocean patrol extending to Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.[23] Arriving in Norfolk on 8 December,[24] she sailed on the 21st for patrol in the South Atlantic. She then entered the Norfolk Navy Yard for repairs on 21 March 1942.[25] Ranger was one of 14 ships to receive the early RCA CXAM-1 radar.[9]
Ranger served as flagship of Rear Admiral A. B. Cook, Commander, Carriers, Atlantic Fleet—until 6 April 1942, when he was relieved by Rear Admiral Ernest D. McWhorter, who also broke his flag in Ranger.[26]
Steaming to Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island, Ranger loaded 68 Curtiss P-40Es and put to sea on 22 April, launching the Army planes on 10 May to land at Accra, on the Gold Coast of Africa (Ghana).[27] She returned to Quonset Point on 28 May, made a patrol to Argentia, then steamed out of Newport on 1 July with another 72 Army P-40s, which she launched off the coast of Africa for Accra on 19 July. Both groups of P-40Es were en route to augment the American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers (soon to be redesignated as the Army Air Forces' 23rd Fighter Group) in China, to replenish their losses as well as forming a second unit, the 51st Fighter Group.[28] After calling at Trinidad,[29] she returned to Norfolk for local battle practice until 1 October, then based her training at Bermuda,[30] in the company of four new Sangamon-class escort carriers: ships converted from oil tankers to increase U.S. air power in the Atlantic Ocean.
Aircraft on Ranger's deck during Operation Torch
As the largest carrier in the Atlantic Fleet, Ranger led the task force that comprised herself and the four escort carriers. These provided air superiority during the amphibious invasion of Vichy-ruled French Morocco and the resulting Naval Battle of Casablanca, beginning on 8 November.[31]
It was still dark at 06:15 that day, when Ranger—stationed 30 mi (48 km) northwest of Casablanca—began launching her aircraft to support the landings made at three points on the Atlantic coast of North Africa (Operation Torch).[32] Nine of her Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters attacked the Rabat and Rabat-Sale aerodromes, headquarters of the French air forces in Morocco. Without loss to themselves, they destroyed seven planes at one field, and fourteen bombers at the other. Another flight destroyed seven planes on the Port Lyautey field. Some of Ranger's planes strafed four French destroyers in Casablanca Harbor, while others strafed and bombed nearby shore batteries.
The carrier launched 496 combat sorties in the three-day operation. Her attack aircraft scored two direct bomb hits on the French destroyer leader Albatros, completely wrecking her forward half and causing 300 casualties. They also attacked the French cruiser Primauguet as she sortied from Casablanca Harbor and dropped depth charges within lethal distance of two submarines.[clarification needed] They knocked out coastal defense and anti-aircraft batteries, destroyed more than 70 enemy aircraft on the ground, and shot down 15 aircraft in aerial combat. However, 16 planes from Ranger were lost or damaged beyond repair. It was estimated that 21 enemy light tanks were immobilized and some 86 military vehicles destroyed – most of them troop-carrying trucks.
Casablanca capitulated to the American forces on 11 November.[33] Ranger departed from the Moroccan coast on 12 November,[34] returning to Hampton Roads on 24 November and Norfolk on 14 December 1942.[35]
1943
Memorial for pilots lost in battle in 1943, Fagervika, Norway
Following training in Chesapeake Bay, Ranger underwent an overhaul at the Norfolk Navy Yard from 16 December 1942 – 7 February 1943. She next transported 75 P-40L fighters of the Army Air Forces' 58th Fighter Group to Africa, arriving at Casablanca on 23 February.[36] On April 25 of 1943 German radio announced "Achtung! Achtung! We are proud to announce that a German submarine has sunk the United States aircraft carrier Ranger in the North Atlantic!" Following this broadcast, German news releases reported that Commander Otto Von Bulow of the U-Boat U-404, personally decorated by Adolf Hitler with Oak Leaves to the Knight´s Cross, had "in addition to torpedoing four steamers, caught and sank the American aircraft carrier Ranger." The US Navy, concerned about the impact of the German announcement on families of Ranger crewmen, issued a denial of the German claim. In the radio broadcast dated February 15, 1944, Captain Gordon Rowe, Commander of the USS Ranger, stated: "The story that we were sunk was a coward´s trick--spreading anxiety and fear among the innocent.... The next day we issued a denial and ... on October 4 we spread panic and chaos in the Norwegian shipping lanes. Only one thing we regret. We kept looking for the Tirpitz but either she wouldn´t or couldn´t come out.... Meanwhile the Ranger, still very much afloat, is doing her job." [37] She patrolled and trained pilots along the New England coast steaming as far north as Halifax, Nova Scotia.[38] Departing from Halifax on 11 August,[39] she joined the British Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, Scotland on 19 August, with which she patrolled the approaches to the British Isles.[39]
Ranger departed from Scapa Flow with the Home Fleet on 2 October to attack German shipping in Norwegian waters (Operation Leader).[40] The objective of the force was the northern Norwegian port of Bodø.[40] The task force reached launch position off Vestfjorden before dawn on 4 October[40] completely undetected. At 06:18, Ranger launched 20 SBD Dauntless dive bombers and an escort of eight Wildcats. One division of dive bombers attacked the 8,000-long-ton (8,100 t) freighter LaPlata, while the rest continued north to attack a German ship convoy. The bombers severely damaged a 10,000-long-ton (10,000 t) tanker and a smaller troop transport. They also sank two of four small German merchant ships in the Bodø roadstead.[41]
A second attack group from Ranger—consisting of 10 Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers and six Wildcats—destroyed a German freighter and a small coastal ship, and bombed a troop-laden transport. Three of the aircraft were lost to anti-aircraft fire. On the afternoon of 4 October, Ranger was located by three German aircraft; her combat air patrol shot down two of the enemy planes and chased away the third.[41]
Ranger returned to Scapa Flow on 6 October.[42] She patrolled with the British 2nd Battle Squadron in waters extending northwestward to Iceland,[43] and then she departed from Hvalfjord on 26 November,[43] arriving at Boston on 3 December.[43]
1944–45
On 3 January 1944, Ranger became a training carrier out of Quonset Point, Rhode Island. This duty was interrupted on 20 April when she steamed to Staten Island, New York to take on 76 Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighters—together with Army, Navy, and French Navy personnel—for transportation to Casablanca.[44] Steaming out on 24 April, she arrived at Casablanca on 4 May.[45] The new aircraft were replaced with damaged U.S. Army aircraft marked for repair in the U.S., while military passengers were embarked for the return to New York City.
Ranger passing through the Panama Canal in 1945
Prior to her returning to the U.S., Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Ernest King had planned to overhaul the carrier by lengthening the hull and installing new engines. Ranger had been designed in the late 1920s, and consequently was smaller, slower, less armored, and carried fewer aircraft and ammunition supplies than the rest of the U.S. carrier fleet. Admiral King favored having the conversions done, but his staff officers pointed out that the resources required to accomplish this would impact on the construction and repair of newer, larger, and more capable aircraft carriers. Based on this information, the full project was canceled.[46] After arriving at New York Harbor on 16 May, Ranger entered the Norfolk Navy Yard to have her flight deck strengthened, new aircraft catapults installed, and radar equipment updated.[47] This provided her with the capability of night fighter-interceptor training. On 11 July, she departed from Norfolk and headed for Panama. She transited the Panama Canal five days later, embarked several hundred U.S. Army passengers at Balboa, Panama,[47] then sailed to San Diego, arriving there on 25 July.[48] After embarking the men and aircraft of Night Fighting Squadron 102 and nearly 1,000 U.S. Marines, Ranger steamed for Hawaiian waters on 28 July, reaching Pearl Harbor on 3 August.[48] During the next three months, Ranger conducted night carrier flight training operations out of Pearl Harbor.[48]
Ranger departed from Pearl Harbor on 13 October[49] to train new naval pilots for combat duty. Operating out of San Diego under the Commander, Fleet Air, Alameda, California, Ranger continued training air groups and squadrons along the California coast throughout the remainder of the war. Ranger was the only pre-war U.S. carrier to have never engaged Japanese forces in battle.
Final operations
Departing San Diego on 30 September 1945,[50] she embarked civilian and military passengers at Balboa[50] and then steamed for New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving on 18 October. Following Navy Day celebrations there, she sailed on 30 October[50] for brief operations at Pensacola, Florida. After calling at Norfolk, she entered the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 19 November for overhaul. She remained on the eastern seaboard until decommissioned at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard on 18 October 1946.[51] Struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 29 October,[52] she was sold for scrap to Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Chester, Pennsylvania on 31 January 1947.[52]
Operator: Norwegian Air Force
Aircraft: Canadair CF-104 Starfighter
Registration: 886
C/n: 683A-1182
Time & Location: 07.05.2022, ENGM, Norway
Remarks: On display outside of the Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection museum.
Stagecoach West's 15762 OU61 AUT is seen at Cribbs Causeway running the X10 on the last day before passing to Transpora and latterly to Big Lemon, still wearing the branding of its previous life with Oxford Depot
Operator: Reading Buses
Make/Model: Scania N94UD/East Lancs OmniDekka (H51/39F)
Registration Number: YN54 AFE
Fleet Number: 810
View: Interior
Operator: French Air Force
Aircraft: Lockheed C-130H-30 Hercules
Registration: 61-PD
C/n: 5140
Time & Location: 27.08.2025, EFTP, Finland
Operator: Newbury & District - (Reading Buses)
Make/Model: Scania CN230UB/OmniCity (B41F)
Registration Number: YN56 FBK
Fleet Number: 4
View: Rear
Operator: Arriva (Southern Counties) - (Gillingham)
Make/Model: Wright Streetdeck (H45/28F)
Registration Number: SL16 YPH
Fleet Number: 6801
View: Interior (Cab)
My Mother was an Operator with Bell of Pennsylvania in the late 1950's and early 1960's. Here she is modeling a headset like the one she used then.
Operator: Reading Buses - (Scania Demonstrater)
Make/Model: Scania N250UD/Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC (H49/29F)
Registration Number: YN66 BBX
Fleet Number: 775
Operator: First (Berkshire & The Thames Valley) - (Slough)
Brand: RailAir
Make/Model: Scania K360EB4/Irizar i6
Registration Number: YT68 GXE
Fleet Number: 23605
View: Interior (Cab)
Operator: Arriva (The Shires) - (Luton)
Make/Model: VDL SB200/Plaxton Centro (B45F)
Registration Number: YJ58 FFA
History: Richards Bros, Arriva UK (7920, 5997, 1498 & 9010) Arriva Malta (Bus 309), Arriva UK (01)
Operator: Richards Bros, Cardigan (Cardigan)
Make/Model: Dennis Dart SLF/Plaxton Pointer (DP29F)
Registration Number: X711 GJU
History: Felix Bus Services, Stanley
View: Interior
A class of Bus Operators graduates at the Zerega Training Facility on Thursday, July 21, 2022.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Operator | Pangasinan FiveStar Bus Co, Inc.
Fleet Number | 1105
Classification | Regular-Airconditioned Bus
Coachbuilder | Golden Dragon Bus (Trans Oriental Philippines-Assembled)
Model | Golden Dragon XML6126 "Superstar" Replica
Chassis | Man Diesel R39 18:350 HOCL
Engine | Man Diesel D2066LOH
Suspension Type |
Seat Configuration | 2x2
Maximum Capacity | 49+2
Shot Location | Rosales, Pangasinan.
Operator: Newbury & District - (Reading Buses)
Make/Model: ADL E40D/Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 (H47/33F)
Registration Number: SN11 BWC
Fleet Number: 1203
History: Weavaway Travel
View: Rear
Operator- Arriva Midlands Telford
Operating Area- Shropshire, Staffordshire & Worcestershire
Make- Wright Bus
Model- Pulsar 2
Chassie- SB200 VDL
Fleet No- 3780
Reg- FL63DXM
Location Seen- Madeley with Service 1
Info- New to Arriva Midlands Telford Garage
Seen 24/5/22
A class of Bus Operators graduates at the Zerega Training Facility on Thursday, July 21, 2022.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
SoulRider.222 / Eric Rider © 2022
2015 Kona Supreme Operator frame
2015 Fox 40 Performance Elite fork
2022 Marzocchi Bomber CR rear coil-over shock
Fox M8 x 38mm shock hardware mounting kit
Fox 400# coil spring
Jagwire Lex SL dropper post and shifting cable and housing
FSA Orbit C-40 (lower ABEC sealed cartridge bearing 36° x 45° with a 1.5 to 1.125 reducer crown race, upper ABEC sealed cartridge bearing 45° x 45° )
Wolf Tooth headset bling kit
Renthal FatBar 35mm handlebar
Cateye Enduro CC-ED400 computer
Renthal Integra II 35mm direct mount stem
ODI Rogue Lock-On grips
Hope Tech 3 E4 front and rear brakes
Hope F20 pedals
Kona seatpost collar
Wolf Tooth Dropper Remote
PNW Cascade external dropper post
SDG Radar seat
Roach top tube pad
Shimano Zee FC-M645 cranks
Burgtec Hollowtech II crank bolt
Wolf Tooth Drop-Stop chainring
Wolf Tooth chainring bolts
e. thirteen ISCG-05 chain guide (original 2006 E13 SRS mounting plate and lower guide pulley with an LG1+ upper chain guide plate)
KMC X9.99 chain (9 speed)
MicroSHIFT Advent derailleur (9 speed)
MicroSHIFT Advent Trail Trigger Pro shifter (9 speed)
MicroSHIFT Advent 11-42 tooth cassette (9 speed)
Shimano SM-RT75 203mm front rotor
Galfer Wave 180mm rear rotor
Shimano 180mm R/P180 caliper adaptor
Shimano XT M800 BB92 Hollowtech II press-fit bottom bracket
Renthal Padded Cell chainstay / swingarm protector
Rear wheel:
Custom made - hand-built by Universal Cycles
Industry Nine Hydra MTN HG (12x157mm) Super Boost hub
DT Swiss Competition 14/15/14 double butted stainless steel spokes
DT Swiss brass nipples
Spank Spoon 32 rim (32 hole, 26 inch, 32mm outer width, Schrader valve)
Maxxis High Roller II Kevlar bead tire (26 x 2.40)
Front wheel:
Custom made - hand-built by Universal Cycles
Hope Pro 4 (20x110mm) hub
DT Swiss Competition 14/15/14 double butted stainless steel spokes
DT Swiss brass nipples
Spank Spoon 32 rim (32 hole, 26 inch, 32mm outer width, Schrader valve)
Wilderness Trail Bicycles MotoRaptor (26 x 2.50)
Terre Haute road switcher J708 is coming back from Alcan Aluminum with a string of empty bulkhead flats used to transport large ingots of aluminum to the processing plant.
Operator: Azul Linhas Aéreas
Location: Aeroporto Internacional de Guarulhos - SBGR
Registration: PR-YRO
Serial Number: 8091
Year Built: 2017
Fleet name: 20 Também é Azul
P1180239
Operator: Sanders Coaches Ltd
Fleet No: 104
Registration: LJ53NHP
Body/Chassis: DAF DB250LF Wright Pulsar-Gemini
Chassis No: XMGDE02PS0H010929
Seating: H43/??F
New: October 2003
Ex: Arriva London
Livery: Sanders Services
Date: Saturday 19th March 2016
Location: St Stephen's Street, Norwich
Route: X44 (Sheringham Express via Aylsham & Cromer)
P1160103
Operator: First Eastern Counties Buses Ltd
Fleet No: 37569
Registration: AU58ECN
Body/Chassis: Volvo B9TL Wright Eclipse-Gemini
Chassis No: YV3S4J8249A129957
Seating: H45/29F
New: October 2008
Ex: --
Livery: FirstLowestoft: LOWESTOFT
Date: Tuesday 19th January 2016
Location: Bridge Street, Beccles
Route: X22 (Lowestoft via Loddon)
Operator: First Eastern Counties Buses Ltd
Fleet No: 42911
Registration: WX05RVV
Body/Chassis: Dennis Dart SLF Alexander Pointer 2
Chassis No: SFD3CACR44GW18082
Seating: B37F
New: April 2005
Ex: First South West Ltd
Livery: First (Standard Barbie)
Date: Wednesday 13th April 2016
Location: Katwijk Way Roundabout, Lowestoft
Route: --