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Tal y como se pronosticó, la borrasca Odette se dejó sentir en el Pirineo, con intensas rachas de viento y nevadas en cotas relativamente bajas para la época del año en la que nos encontramos.
Día frio, muy ventoso, de muchas nubes y poco sol, con una fina capa de nieve que sirvió para condecorar el bello entorno que rodea a este clásico ibón, ideal para hacer algo de monte por encontrarse al sur de la divisoria, cuando el temporal de norte arrecia.
Pirineo Occidental.
Otoño 2020
Valle de Tena
Alto Gállego. Huesca
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Corby Clouds PLC
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DB Cargo Class 66 locomotive 66155
6V97 14.30 Stanton Gate PLC to Cardiff Tidal Terminal Complex
Catholme, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire
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TF-PLC - Airbus A-321-251NX - PLAY Airlines
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 11.345 - built in 1993
PLAY has announced the end of YHM-service on April 21th., 2025
The 4E49 11.29 Daventry to Doncaster Iport liner passes the impressive Cemex works on the outskirts of Rugby.
With its origins in the early 19th century, the company was founded in 1862 as the Rugby Lias Lime & Cement Company Ltd before being renamed the Rugby Portland Cement Company Ltd in 1872, in 1979 it was renamed the Rugby Group plc. In 2000 Rugby Cement was taken over by the RMC Group, which was itself taken over by the Mexican firm Cemex in 2005. Cement production still continues at the New Bilton site in Rugby under Cemex ownership.
The business was first started in 1825 as a small family business by two local businessmen Thomas Walker and his son George Walker when they started producing lime mortar at a site on their land at New Bilton and nearby Newbold-on-Avon, exploiting locally available deposits of what Professor H.B. Woodward described in 1898 as "the finest inland section of lower lias limestone in the country".
The first public company the Rugby Lias Lime & Cement Company Ltd was founded in 1862. In around 1870 the company began producing portland cement, and the company was renamed the Rugby Portland Cement Company Ltd. in 1872.
The next milestone in the company's history occurred in 1933 when Sir Halford Reddish became the managing director of the company. The company began to expand its activities, acquiring four plants at nearby Southam in 1934, Rochester in 1937, Gillingham in 1939, and Stockton in 1945. The first two were rebuilt and modernised with the latest technology, but the latter two were soon closed down as they competed with the Southam and Rochester plants.
In 1955, the company founded an Australian subsidiary, Cockburn Cement Ltd, in Perth, Australia, which was later merged in 1999 into Adelaide Brighton Cement.
In 1965 a 92 km pipeline was opened to transport chalk as slurry from Kensworth Chalk Pit, Bedfordshire to the Rugby plant.
By the 1980s the company branched out from its Portland cement base to offer a wider variety of cement types, including sulfate-resistant cements, cements for the offshore oil industry, and quick-drying cements.
In 1984 the company bought the Addison Corporation of Atlanta, Georgia, thus entering the American construction market, and also saw it enter the joinery market.
In the late 1990s, the plant at Rugby was upgraded at a cost of £200 million to a production capacity of 1.8 million tonnes. At the same time the plants at Southam and Rochester were closed down as production was concentrated at Rugby.
11/9/1990 Paris , La Chapelle Depot, France
CC 40100 Class, 4 voltage electric locomotive built 1964
Midland Bank opposite Lloyds of London.. in London. I did think the Lloyds building was pretty cool when it was built and impressive to see. A few years later I did get to go on a visit inside.
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11/9/1990 Paris , La Chapelle Depot, France
CC 40100 Class, 4 voltage electric locomotive built 1964
TF-PLC - Airbus A-321-251NX - PLAY Airlines
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 11.345 - built in 1993
PLAY has announced the end of YHM-service on April 21th., 2025
Matrícula UIC: -
Matrícula nacional: PLC 1 a 26 (?)
Familia: Plataformas
Propietario: Arcelor Mittal
Carga: Slabs
Mit dabei: Carl-Zeiss-Jena electric MC SONNAR 3,5/135; 2X PENTACON electric multi coating 1.8/50; Carl-Zeiss-Jena MC FLEKTOGON 2,4/35
11/9/1990 Paris , La Chapelle Depot, France
CC 40100 Class, 4 voltage electric locomotive built 1964
Matrícula UIC: -
Matrícula nacional: PLC X
Familia: Plataformas
Propietario: Arcelor Mittal
Carga: Slabs
Otros: -
On the A10 just before the start of the Melbourn bypass, this site was redeveloped as part of Dunsbridge Business Park goo.gl/maps/DfLPbJj2jASzF46r7
Once upon a time this was a Nuffield (Morris, Riley, Wolseley) dealer as in the advert on p15 here www.100yearsofcoconuts.co.uk/uploads/9/1/6/2/9162503/6601...
What we see here in the photos is not just a British Benzol forecourt—interesting as that is anyway—but one which reveals something else about the company's history: the Hickey logo on the shop-front. This was a Hickey site incorporated into the growing British Benzol business in the late 80s or early 90s. Hickey were based at Harefield Oil Terminal near Uxbridge, with a few sites to the north and west of London. This (on the A10) and one on the A40 in Buckinghamshire might have been the highest-profile ones.
British Benzol had a complicated history that I haven't quite got to the bottom of yet. It was an old-established coal distillation, mining, and coke producing company, originally based at Bedwas colliery in south Wales, and presumably supplying benzole to petrol companies, but I don't think selling it under their own name.
But by the mid-80s as the mining business declined, they branched out into lubricants and liquid fuels. British Benzol plc bought JC Abbott of Barnsley, who then became the retail petrol and lubricants arm of the company. The initial British Benzol petrol stations were I think company owned, larger sites. They only had 10. In 1987 British Benzol was reversed into by Powerscreen, a company making mobile mining/quarrying screening equipment, and pretty quickly the petrol / oil business was sold off and the company became Powerscreen International plc.
I don't know the sequence of exactly what happened at this point but the British Benzol fuels business, combined with the businesses of Hickey, and Pronto Heating Oils (based on the Uxbridge Road not far from Hickey's base), re-emerged, based at Harefield Oil Terminal (the former Hickey site), run by Dennis Woods who built it into quite a large oil (and fuel card) business, although with relatively few petrol stations, and mostly quite small dealers.
Note here also that the left-hand pump has a (very faded / washed out) newer British Benzol sticker, with the 'spike' logo.