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I'm blessed to have some great clients. With most of them, I've shot them from the beginning, as an individual shoot, followed by an engagement, then a wedding, newborn, and then the next newborn. I was just scheduled today by my very FIRST client, for her 8th shoot with me. It started with her wanting some pretty "single lady" portraits and in October, it will be family portraits with her husband and two beautiful girls. (BTW, this is not her child!)
Green Cargo Rd2 1134 in Hallsberg with mixed freight 5640 (Hallsbergs rangerbangård - Norrköpings central) with containers on Lgjns + Habbiins, Rs, Uacns and Sgnss wagons, on April 19, 2024, 2:19.
I think I need to calibrate the colors on this laptops screen because my last 6 or so uploads are looking so much warmer than I intended when I view them on other devices... Oh well, sometimes warm is good.
03/06/2016. Reading. Late 1960s Stewart and Lloyd column, originally with curved swanneck and top entry Thorn Beta 5. The Beta 5 had been replaced with a refractor bowl Urbis ZX1 running SON, but this too has been replaced with a Holophane V-Max LED lantern.
FRD2
FRD2 was a Bristol Lodekka LD6G with Eastern Coachworks H33/27R bodywork. It formed part of W Alexander & Sons first order for Lodekkas. This comprised 25 vehicles which were delivered in 1956. These vehicles were registered GWG 977-999, HMS 9 and HMS 10 respectively.
RD1-9 went to the Fife area and passed to the Fife company at the 1961 split into the three new companies of W Alexander & Sons Fife Ltd, W Alexander & Sons Midland Ltd and W Alexander & Sons Northern Ltd.
RD10-15 went to the Southern area and passed to the Midland company at the 1961 split.
RD16-25 went to Lawsons of Kirkintilloch, an Alexander’s subsidiary. They were all delivered in Lawson’s Ayres red livery and were subsequently absorbed into the new Midland company at the time of the 1961 split. These Lawson’s vehicles appear to have been the first vehicles to be delivered in spite of their higher fleet numbers.
Interestingly, although Alexanders had amassed a total of 152 new Lodekkas prior to the 1961 split, not one of these vehicles went to the Northern Division which became W Alexander & Sons Northern Ltd. Indeed, Northern’s very first Lodekkas took the form of six FLF6Gs which arrived as late as 1979/80, all six having been new to Eastern National and swapped for Alexander Midland Bristol VRs in 1971.
Anyway, back to FRD2. According to a W Alexander & Sons fleet list it was registered GWG978 on 1st June 1956, initially carrying fleet number RD2. The ‘F’ prefix was added following transfer to the Fife group after the May 1961 split of the Alexander company.
The ‘D’ plate below the fleet number indicates that FRD2 is allocated to Dunfermline’s St Leonards Garage, the location of this photograph. Although the view is undated, some indication of its vintage can be gleaned from presence of AEC Reliance FPE50 peering out of the depot. FPE50, new in October 1966, is displaying a 56 Edinburgh via South Queensferry destination display. This was one of the routes introduced in September 1964 when the Forth Road Bridge opened. Prior to that, there were no direct bus services between Edinburgh and Fife and the only way to get to Edinburgh was by train. Theoretically, it was possible to take the 300 to North Queensferry, catch the ferry across the River Forth then an SMT bus into Edinburgh. When new RD2 was one of the buses regularly allocated to the 300 along with sister vehicles RD1 and RD3.
FRD2 was withdrawn in 1971 and disposed of via Muir’s of Kirkcaldy in November of that year.
Original negative by Tony Guyett.
2019 Gibraltar International Chess Festival: Masters, Round 2, 23 January 2019. Photos by John Saunders