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Quadrant (hat -- artistic class). Philadelphia Flower Show, "Holland--Flowering the World," March 11-19, 2017.
Sabec Memorial VFW Post 9582
Vandalia, OH
-Howitzer, 105mm M2?? No.???? unreadable
-NSN 1015-00-099 8248 Mechanism, Recoil, M2A5, 105mm Howitzer No.331 US VM, Rock Island Arsenal, Overhauled By LEAD 5-86
-No.1438 Carriage, How, 105mm, M2A2 No.1438, Pullman-Standard 1987
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For manually opening and closing the steam valves when starting the engine. This is done by the valve gear when the engine is running.
A very wet day on the Fraser river @ New Westminster where the tugs and other workboats got to strut their stuff BC Canada
Quadrant (hat -- artistic class). Philadelphia Flower Show, "Holland--Flowering the World," March 11-19, 2017.
Quadrant and lever installed with spacer which abuts the quadrant under screw pressure thus locating it firmly against the brazeon. The control lever and tension arm control pivot around the spacer.
In their comtemporary advertising Quadrant claim to be Britain's oldest motorcycle, the company was founded by W L Lloyd in 1901, the first models to his design were fitted with 211cc Minerva engines. The firm also produced the Quadrant forecar.
From 1903 onwards, Quadrant produced their own engines in a wide range of capabilities and types. The firm was represented in competitions for many years by Tom Silver and in May 1903, he was the only ebtrant to make a non-stop run in the SAC Glasgow-London Trial. This was described in the press report of the day as the most outstanding demonstration of the reliability of the motorcycle that has ever been made.
By 1924 Mark Newarch & Co Ltd owned Quadrant and was producing two models only - a 490cc and 624cc - both side valve singles, the 624cc model having been reduced from a previous 645cc engine.
These motorcycles had an enviable reputation as robust touring bikes but unfortunately manufacturing ceased in 1929.
Specification:
Engine - 624cc single cylinder side valve engine. Binks or Amac carburettor.
Compression ratio - not known
Power - not known
Transmission - Burman 3 speed gearbox
Tyres - 700 x 80mm
Weight - 260lbs
Top speed - not known
Price new - £55.0s.0d. or £75.0s.0d. with sidecar
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The bike on which Team Sky cyclist Chris Froome won the 2013 Tour de France came to visit our offices ahead of a Sky Ride event.
I understand this is a Pinarello Dogma 65.1 Think2 which is a carbon fibre made to measure machine costing about £10,000.
The bike weighed nothing and could be picked up wih one finger! The water bottles, when full, are heavier than the bike!
Quadrant (hat -- artistic class). Philadelphia Flower Show, "Holland--Flowering the World," March 11-19, 2017.
Porcelainous Stoneware, Wood, Steel
8” H x 12” W x 3” D
Assembled from hand built and thrown components, wood, and steel rod. Multiple firings to cone 6 and 06 in an electric kiln.
A pair of very tall brick Observation Towers dating from World War Two stand on Grimston Warren. Both of the quadrant towers are built from four brickwork columns, connected approximately half way up with steel tie rods, the columns are also connected at the top with a concrete ring beam.
Usually there is a concrete superstructure on top, used by the observers, in this case the tower probably held a wooden superstructure attached by bolts to the concrete ring beam sitting on top of the columns. Some of the wooden remains and fixings can be seen. Both of the towers show some concrete foundations at the base indicating where a staircase was mounted for access.
Nearby are some cropmarks of a large circle with a large central ''bullseye'' at reference TF 6780 2214, this is believed to represent the remains of a World War Two bomb target.
INFORMATION BOARD -
This tower and its twin, which can be seen in the distance to the north, were constructed by the army and date from the Second World War.
They were used for artillery training by the Royal Observation Corps. Guns fired shells at a target and observers measured the shell trajectories and determined the accuracy of each shot. The two view points were necessary to pi point the exact position each shell fell.
This tower was entirely hidden within a dense conifer plantation from the 1960’s. It was only the felling of trees in 2009 as part of Norfolk Wildlife Trust's heathland restoration project that has once again revealed the tower. For the first time in decades the original sight-line between the two observation towers has been opened up.
BEWARE ORDNANCE ‼️
There are also the remains of other military features dating from around the time Second World War, including slit trenches, and gun emplacements. Occasionally the remains of shells and other ordnance are found here. Should you find any metal objects which you think may be ordnance please do not handle them but safely mark the location and report your findings to Norfolk Wildlife Trust on 01603 625540.
Information from the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.
Cypress tree planted by Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty (well...supposedly planted by his own hand). He's the emperor responsible for moving the capital to Beijing in the Ming Dynasty which would make this a rather old cypress -- about 600 years old.
The Beijing Working People’s Cultural Palace is a refreshing place to visit if you want to get away from tourists (or any of the other ~20 million people in Beijing). Ironically, this compound is located in the heart of downtown Beijing. It’s actually part of the Forbidden City – historically – but now, like Zhongshan Park, it’s a separate entity. For that reason, it tends to be overlooked.
I suppose, to give a clear idea of what we’re talking about, I’ll mentally lay out the Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square for you from a birds’ eye view. Tiananmen is (at least according to what I read here in China) “the largest public square in the world.” Imagine a somewhat stout rectangle standing on end. On the bottom (south) end would be Qianmen, one of the old gates to the city, and Chairman Mao’s Mausoleum. On the left (west) is the Hall of the People, which is where Chinese government convenes, etc. On the right (east) side is the National Museum. Finally, along the top (north) is the Forbidden City, across Changan Avenue (one of the widest avenues in the world).
Crossing over to the palace via the Changan underpasses, most people head straight for the Forbidden City, which is easy to find (just follow Mao’s head). A quick overview of the palace would show a rather long rectangle on end (feels like it’s about 2 km on the north-south axis and about 1 km on the east-west, but those are guesses). If you were to look at it from above, the palace grounds actually only take up about the top 2/3 of the area in question.
The other 1/3 of the area is usually overlooked by people. When you walk into the main gate at the south end of the complex, you pass through something of a medium-sized “bottleneck,” with no signage indicating what’s in the areas that you don’t see. That’s where the Workers’ Cultural Palace (and Zhongshan Park, actually) are located. In the southeast quadrant (and the entrance is actually facing Changan Avenue, but is completely nondescript otherwise), you find the entrance to this park.
At 200,000 square meters, it’s no small park by any stretch of the imagination. (Zhongshan Park, in the opposite – southwest – corner is roughly equal in size.) For a cost of 10 元 (a shade over $1.50 as of this writing), you can have practically free reign in this park.
The park is quite pleasant. Historically, it was the Imperial Ancestral Temple (Tai Miao) completed in 1420 along with the rest of the Forbidden City. Emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties made sacrifices (usually burning silk) to their ancestors here. In accordance with Chinese beliefs, the ancestors were on the left (of the main imperial throne inside the Forbidden City) and the “state” (Altar of the Soil and Grain) was on the right – where Zhongshan Park is now located.
Of the 200,000 square meters in the park, the actual temple takes up 140,000 meters and is almost concentrically located in the middle. The temple is separated from the park by three red/ochre walls. Between the temple walls and the outer park walls, there is quite a pleasant forest of old-growth cypress and pine trees. Many of the trees are a few hundred years old.
Inside, the temple is laid out symmetrically. Along the central axis, there is a glazed gate, a white marble bridge (7, actually; the center one for the emperor and the 3 on either side for “lesser” members of the royal delegation: the farther from the center, the less important to the delegation you were), a halberd gate, and three great halls. Flanking this configuration, there are well pavilions, a spirit kitchen, a spirit storehouse, and side halls.
The front hall is where the emperor performed sacrificial rites. It had a three-tiered base made of white marble. It’s 32.46 meters tall, 68.2 meters long, and 30.2 meters deep. The floor of the temple is made of “gold brick” and the temple is built using cedar pillars. It was built two meters higher than the Imperial Palace’s Hall of Supreme Harmony to show its importance.
The other two halls house the spirit tablets of deceased emperors and empresses (in the central hall) and more distant ancestors (in the rear hall). Those halls are called, respectively, the Hall of Repose and Hall of Remote Ancestors.
Upon the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, the Imperial Palace was gradually opened to the general public (in May 1950) with a name that was suggested by Zhou En-Lai.
Now complete with the rather stylish 'cuciform' chimneys.
This model is based upon the Crescent building in Buxton, Derbyshire, but is just a quadrant (quarter circle) rather than a semicircle.
Parked up on the "hard shoulder" in Swansea Quadrant bus station.
Year of manufacture : 2000
Length in metres : 10.1
Weight in tonnes : 7.2
26.6.2011. Another shot of 9600 - nice recreation of the GW era with signal box and lower quadrants.