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The west wing of the Purple Pub was previously the Exchange Hotel in Croydon and was relocated to Normanton. It was originally painted a light mauve in 1968, then in 1975 a few shades darker, then in 1979 - - full on purple.
Normanton, Queensland:
Normanton, situated in northwest Queensland, is 40km southeast of the mouth of the Norman River on the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is the administrative centre of the Carpentaria Shire.
The coastline in the vicinity of the mouth of the Norman River was explored by Abel Tasman (1644), Matthew Flinders (1802), and Commander John Stokes (1841), but it was the failure of the Burke and Wills expedition in 1861 which concentrated exploratory activity in the area. Prior to then, the only land exploration had been by Ludwig Leichhardt who reached the Norman River in 1844.
Search parties for Burke and Wills comprised overland expeditions led by William Landsborough and Frederick Walker and a maritime attempt commanded by Captain W.H. Norman. Landsborough explored the river in 1861 and named it after the maritime commander. Landsborough's expedition report precipitated a pastoral invasion of the Gulf Country, and by 1867 a European settlement was established on the site of the future Normanton township. The town was proclaimed in August 1868 and town allotments were put up for sale. Interest in the new town was helped by outbreaks of fever in the Albert River (Burketown) settlement, whose population moved to a healthier Normanton.
The Norman River was navigable by shallow draught vessels as far as Normanton, and in late 1867, a dray load of Cloncurry copper ore was dispatched from the new settlement. Smelted metal from the Etheridge Goldfield (Georgetown) was dispatched through Normanton, and the Croydon Goldfield (1886 - 1913) made Normanton both an inwards and outwards freight terminal. The usual civic growth can be traced through these years: post office (1868), telegraph connection to Cardwell (1872), a school (1872), and formation of a borough council (1886). A Church of England began its services in the school of arts, and a railway line was opened from Croydon in 1891. The line was unique, with the use of ant-proof iron sleepers. Two shipping lines ran weekly services between Normanton and Brisbane. A meatworks was opened in 1892.
By the early 1900s Normanton's population was quickly falling as the Croydon field fell away. The economy's mainstay became pastoralism, but many of the holdings were part of national chains such as the Kidman estates which moved cattle over vast distances, dictated by drought and fodder reserves. Throughput of stock in Normanton was highly variable. Normanton was nevertheless the region's administrative centre, and an inaugural connecting flight in 1927 to Cloncurry ushered in a permanent aerial service.
Shortly after reticulated electricity was laid on in the town in 1955 Normanton began a slow increase in population. In 1966 the river punt was replaced with the W. H. Norman bridge, and since 1970 the town's population has doubled to about 1450.
The railway to Croydon has survived as a weekly tourist service; the Gulflander. The station is on the Queensland Heritage Register, as is the Westpac (former New South Wales) Bank, the old Normanton Gaol, and Burns Philp Building. By far the most imposing building, resembling a Queenslander hotel, is the Carpentaria Shire's office. Normanton has local shops - but no longer the Burns Philp emporium for every need - a hospital, golf, and bowls venues, a racecourse and rodeo ground, an aerodrome, a TAFE, a State primary-secondary school and the Gulf Christian College (1990). There is hotel, motel, and caravan park accommodation and a Savannah Guide touring network. The shire library and visitor information centre are in the Burns Philp building.
Source: Carpentaria Shire & Queensland Places (www.queenslandplaces.com.au/normanton).
Cuteness overload. Red squirrel (Eurasian squirrel) relocating at least 4 youngsters from one tree to another. First attempt to jump did not work out, so it is climbing down and up with the precious load.
Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum e. V.: located in Rebstock Park in the Bockenheim district of Frankfurt am Main, this museum houses a vast collection of over 70 locomotives and some 200 carriages and wagons, all on 600 mm gauge track. The association was founded in 1975 and, after four relocations, finally settled permanently in Rebstock. There, it has three buildings to house its collection and a small 1.3 km long track. It opens to the public approximately once a month, offering running trains pulled by steam, diesel, or gasoline locomotives.
Here we see a passenger train headed by steam locomotive number 13, a Mallet 0-4-0+0-4-0T (construction type B'Bn4vt) built by Orenstein & Koppel in 1909 (works number 3902).
I found this young dragonfly on a footpath struggling to fly - you can see the wing tips are a little curled. Hopefully this is just because they weren't quite fully pumped out (the wings were still very shiny and shimmery so she was newly emerged). She easily clambered onto a stick I was holding and was relocated somewhere I thought looked suitable and certainly a lot safer than the middle of a footpath!
During WW2 Retford train station in Retford, Nottinghamshire was on a busy railway junction, many WVS volunteers passed through the station and used its facilities, at its peak between 1940 and 1946, the station kitchen served over 1,000 meals per day.
Thanks to Jeff Wharton for photo of re enactor WVS volunteer flic.kr/p/2q5MLgB background photo from Bing Images
So I don't know what gets into me sometimes but I ended up with this conservative plaid suit and well....thought what better place to hide until the trial, than as a quiet librarian!...lol
Now relocated to an undisclosed site. Don't ask where as I won't tell. This is a very rare duck now with less than 10 wild in the UK now - see earlier post for details of why there are so few.
Rode around with a friend this past Saturday trying to get a few captures for his website.
I plowed snow myself for 4 years, so it's nice at this point to be able to enjoy a snow storm for it's beauty instead of burning myself out.
iss065e431621 (Sept. 28, 2021) --- The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft carrying three Expedition 65 crewmates is pictured during its relocation maneuver from the Rassvet module to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module.
Changement de port d'amarrage hier pour le Soyouz d'Oleg, Mark et Piotr. Il s’est désamarré du module MRM1, est allé faire un tour à l'avant de la Station spatiale pour prendre quelques photos puis est revenu s'amarrer au module MLM dont ce fut le tout premier docking !
Soyuz port relocation! Oleg, Pyotr and Mark undocked from MRM1, went Station forward to take some pictures, came back Station aft to dock with MLM. First docking with MLM ever!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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I shot this saturday for one of my last projects in Commercial 3, my instructor asked us all where we saw ourselves in the coming years, I responded by saying shooting fashion. So what do you know our assignment was too shoot whatever we said! Pretty cool idea. I'm glad i didn't say shiny metal photographer.....
I really loved the washed out look it the background on this one!
I like this bob hairstyle, and the whole look is completely different than most of my things. Its kind of fun to change it up. (smile)
Originally Ross Dress for Less. Old Navy was previously Cato Fashions and Dressbarn. Shoe Dept was a GAP Factory Outlet.
Pennsdale (Muncy), PA. December 2021.
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PFF450L, a rather nice looking Gardner powered ERF LV 6x4 tipper that until fairly recently lived in North Wales.
Seen here heading South after attending the CTP Gillingham Gathering.
5th February saw the move of Stagecoach's Dartmouth base from Venn Lane to the town's coach park next to the Park & Ride site.
Pickerings Hire of Willand were brought in to move the staff cabin, seen here being craned onto the back of Volvo FM330, KV64LCL.
Exposure: 1/200 @ f9 125ISO
Date: 5 February 2021
ODC-Procrastination
We need to move this wood further back behind the barn, it's sitting under the Silver Maple Tree at the moment. The wood is from the raised beds Stu put in the garden.
Update: It's all moved and out of the way so Kaitlin and Chris can get back to their work without this in their way!
20.8.2014. The former signal gantry at Falsgave, Scarborough is still doing its job (albeit a little narrower) - but now at the northern end of Grosmont station on the NYMR.
LNER Thompson B1 Class 4-6-0 No 61034 'Chiru' (aka 61264) pulls into Grosmont station with the 10.25 Whitby - Pickering passenger service.
Due to the terrible traffic congestion caused by Stonehenge on the A303 major trunk road it has been decided to relocate the ancient monument 8 miles west of it's current location...
(Shot with my phone..)
iss059e017006 (April 8, 2019) --- Expedition 59 Flight Engineers Anne McClain of NASA (red stripes, right) and David Saint-Jacques (no stripes, left) of the Canadian Space Agency are seen while working outside the International Space Station. In a six and a half hour spacewalk, McClain and Saint-Jacques successfully established a redundant path of power to the Canadian-built robotic arm, known as Canadarm2, and installed cables to provide for more expansive wireless communications coverage outside the orbital complex, as well as for enhanced hardwired computer network capability. The duo also relocated an adapter plate from the first spacewalk in preparation for future battery upgrade operations.
Housing in Broken Hill is as interesting and varied as the public buildings and ranges from simple cottages to more substantial residences built in stone, brick, or iron. The need for lightweight, easily transported building materials resulted in an almost universal use of galvinised iron for roofing, and galvanised iron or rarely weatherboard for cladding of more modest houses. Entire buildings were also relocated - Silverton buildings were moved to Broken Hill after the decline of the mining there in 1885. Galvanised iron was also used for fencing. The earliest cottages were often built without verandahs, but the need for protection from the heat meant they were soon added. Roofs are generally at a 30 - 35° pitch with either straight, concave, or bull-nose verandahs at the front of the houses.
There is a variety of configurations in house plans and elevations. The typical modest cottage - a transformation of a simple tent - had one or two rooms with rear skillions added as required. The more substantial double fronted houses were two or three rooms deep and sometimes had projecting front rooms or bays. In some cases, iron cladding on front elevations was pressed to appear like stone in order to provide a greater air of solidarity to an otherwise lightweight construction. Interiors were lined with timber panelling, pressed metal ceilings, lath and plaster wall, and ceiling linings, sometimes Hessian, newspaper, and wallpaper. Usually only the front and backs of iron houses were painted, leaving the sides and roofs in unpainted galvanised iron finish.
As these iron houses were extended, the roof from the top ridge to the rear wall continued; often a single skillion slope resulted in a low ceiling at the back of the house. This long slope of the rear roof is a unique and sometimes startling element of the extension of houses in Broken Hill. Some modest homes had been clad over with "fake brick" or "plastic timber" to conceal their humble corrugated iron origins, but in more recent times, these later changes have been reversed and original details have been reinstated.
Much of Broken Hill's housing was constructed prior to World War I (WWI). The most common style was the corrugated iron "tinny" but there were also more substantial houses constructed in stone with brick dressings based on the South Australian residential vernacular style. Some of these were houses built as church rectories or for senior mining officials. The mines provided a range of company housing including the BHP flats at Proprietary Square which were added in 1938 to the offices built in 1919. The mining companies provided low interest loans for employee housing, established housing co-operatives, and constructed housing for senior staff. Community amenities and recreational facilities were also provided.
The Rainbow Avenue dwellings in South Broken Hill date from the 1920s and other company housing, often with extensive landscaping and communal facilities, was erected during the boom period at Broken Hill in the 1940s and 1950s. Examples include the residences at Junction Circle, North Mine, Zinc Mine, and NBHC Mine.
Housing built in the city between the two world wars adopted the styles used elsewhere in Australia such as the Californian Bungalow, Neo-Tudor, and Spanish Mission. However, each style was often expressed in galvanised iron with pressed metal facades that created a unique Broken Hill character.
In the 1940s and 1950s, removal of original timber verandah posts from early cottages and replacement with elaborate concrete columns was common. In the 1960s, wrought metal posts replaced the timber posts. Many of these modest houses have now been upgraded and lovingly restored by re-exposing original corrugated iron cladding and in some cases reinstating timber verandah detailing, thereby contributing to the revival of the housing areas of Broken Hill.
Source: Broken Hill: A Guide to the Silver City by Elizabeth Vines with Photography By Bruce Tindale.
Having completed their crew and power swap at Valley Falls, the local PR-3 crew is now in charge of the 79 loads of ethanol and two spacers destined for the Shell tank farm at the port of Providence. Looking like the proud independent regional I grew up with three red and brown units are on the point. GP38-2s 2007 and 2006 are original to the road having been built new for the then only 7 year independent company by EMD in Nov. and Dec. 1980 respectively), and have spent their entire careers working these rails. Trailing is GE B39-8E 3903 which was blt. Apr. 1988 as LMX 8594.
The train is arriving at MP 5 at this one time junction with shoreline main known as 'Boston Switch' five miles north of Providence Union Station. Standing at right is the crumbling tile roofed pagoda style interlocking tower that is 110 years old.
This junction came into being when what is today's Northeast Corridor (just out of sight to the right of the tower) was built as the Boston & Providence in 1847 providing a new direct route into the city from East Jct. near South Attleboro, MA. That pioneering road's original 1835 route traveled to East Providence where passengers and freight were ferried across the Providence River into downtown. From this point to Union Station the nee P&W which also opened in 1847 and thee B&P were operated a joint facility. In 1892 the P&W was leased to the New Haven and a year later the former B&P (by then in the Old Colony fold) joined the growing empire and both routes fell under the aegis of the same company.
In 1914 a massive grade separation and line relocation project in Pawtucket took place. This location was about the eastern limits of the work and according to Edward J. Ozog's phenomenal Railroad's of Rhode Island site:
SS 156 was built to protect the east end of the line relocation. Switches and signals were operated by electricity. The plan of the tower was similar to SS 154 built at the same time at the west end of the relocation but adjusted for its location and orientation. The tower was reduced to short hours when the depression struck and it was closed in 1935 and its duties transferred to Woodlawn Tower. In 1937 the interlocking machine was sent to Bridgeport for use in SS 60.
Remarkably some 87 years after the last shift was worked here it still stands guard as a tangible link to the Ocean State's railroading heritage
Central Falls, Rhode Island
Monday February 5, 2024
Reflected in a puddle is the neon sign for the bookshop Foyles, now relocated to a new premises nearby.
WEEK 29 – Carrollton, GA, Target (II)
Stepping back out into the rear actionway, this shot gives you some more perspective on that dividing line we were just talking about. On the other side of that aisle with the printers and ink that you see on the right edge of this pic, lies the aisle we were just standing in in the previous image with the storage buckets and the terminal point of that yellow stripe along the rear wall. As mentioned previously, menswear’s new neighbor is the electronics department – relocated from the front left corner of the store, which we’ll see later on – and the aisles seen here look impressively complete at this relatively early stage in the remodel.
(c) 2021 Retail Retell
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Not long transferred from Eastfield to Bristol Bath Road, Class 47/4 47658 approaches Cheltenham Spa while working the 1V60 15:05 Leeds to Bristol Temple Meads InterCity Cross Country service.
D1720 was delivered in March 1964 from Brush Falcon Works. As 47129, it was ETH fitted and re-liveried as illustrated in August 1986 to become 47658. In August 1989 it was re-numbered to 47813 and re-liveried to BR InterCity colours. Post BR it worked for First Great Western and Cotswold Rail before joining the DRS fleet.
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An element from a Leeds City Council show garden at Chelsea flower show. Now in Roundhay Park, Leeds.
66532 "P&O Nedlloyd Atlas" hauls TPE Mk5 stock over the Chat Moss at Glazebury on 29th June 2020 with 5Q66 1551 Longsight to Basford Hall.
The stock was heading to Crewe for unspecified modification work on the coaches by CAF. The loco had run up to Manchester earlier in the day as 0Z66.
Feed train 48T "crosses over" from the old NS track alignment to the north to the new NS alignment over the Laurel Street, Ash Street, and 5th/6th Street bridges to the south.
Eventually, NS' new double track mainline will be shifted east to the graded area on the far right side of this photo. This is needed to make room for UP's new double track mainline along the 10th Street Corridor.
Lot's of work has been completed, but much, much more will be needed to finish this massive project by late 2025.
BNSF 6151 - ES44AC
BNSF 7849 - ES44DC
BNSF 5115 - C44-9W
Laurel Street - Springfield, Illinois
November 6, 2022
The road was closed to the lighthouse, so Lamar and I hike down the beach. The next day the lighthouse was down, so I got photos before they took it down. The city is going to relocate it. Port ST. Joe Florida.(HDR)
Chassis n° 55217
Coachwork by Vanvooren
Bonhams
Les Grandes Marques du Monde à Paris
The Grand Palais Éphémère
Place Joffre
Parijs - Paris
Frankrijk - France
February 2023
Estimated : € 3.000.000 - 4.000.000
Unsold
At the end of 1931, the Parisian Bugatti agent Dominique Lamberjack (junior), a friend of both Jean Bugatti and Robert de Prandières, the director of coachbuilders Vanvooren in Courbevoie, agreed between them that most of the Bugatti Type 55 '300' chassis delivered to Lamberjack's dealership would be sent to Vanvooren for bodying. Among the seven Bugatti Type 55 chassis delivered in Paris, six would be bodied by Vanvooren and one by Figoni in Courbevoie. The register of sales and deliveries confirms that the five Type 55 chassis ordered and delivered to Lamberjack in 1932 were numbers '55204', '55208', '55214', '55217' and '55227'. They were all invoiced for 72,500 French francs. The sixth chassis, '55236', was shipped by rail to Paris in June 1935 to be bodied by Vanvooren, but was destined for the Bugatti dealership in Amsterdam.
This Type 55 chassis with engine '24' was assembled at the factory in May 1932, as were chassis with engines '17' to '23'. Chassis '55217/24' was transported by road from Molsheim to Paris on 29th July 1932 and was invoiced that same day to Lamberjack's Paris dealership for the sum of 72,500 French francs. The chassis was then sent to Vanvooren in Courbevoie to receive a two-seater cabriolet body.
Dominique Lamberjack junior has stated that the car, once back from the coachbuilder, had remained on display in his showroom at the corner of rue Bayen and boulevard des Marechaux, for more than three years without finding a single buyer. It would take four years before a loyal Bugatti customer stepped in and bought it.
The Type 55 was registered new on 12th May 1936 at the Pas de Calais prefecture, under the license plate number '3988 NA 6' in the name of Eugène Leleux (junior). Born on 17th October 1906 in Lille, Eugène Florimond Albert Leleux was a brewer by trade and ran the Croix de Grès brewery in Divion. The Leleux family's first Bugatti was a Type 40A convertible acquired on 23rd June 1932. It was replaced in October 1936 by a Type 57 cabriolet which was sold to finance the purchase of the Type 55. Lamberjack's Société Franco-Américaine d'Automobiles' original invoice for the Type 55 cabriolet is made out to 'Mr Eugène Leleux son, Divion' and is dated 6th May 1936. It details 'A Bugatti 2L300 type 55 car number 55217. New, bodied as a two-seater Vanvooren convertible. For a payment of sixteen thousand francs in cash, twenty-five thousand francs in ten installments and the trade-in of a Bugatti 57143 as it is'.
On the back of one of the original photographs of the Bugatti, taken in the courtyard of the brewery, Eugène Leleux has written: "2l 300, type 55, year 1936, 8 cyl in line 2 compressor camshafts, 18 fiscal hp 4 floor speeds, 180 km/h, Gearbox separated from the engine Cable brakes, drums incorporated in the aluminum wheels, magneto Scintilla, Connecting rods and crankshaft on ball and roller bearings. Convertible Vanvooren 2 places, Yellow, Wings and black hood." This note seems to indicate that at the time of purchase by Leleux, the car was not yet equipped with a Cotal pre-selector gearbox, otherwise this feature would have been mentioned, so detailed is the car's description.
In 1941, the Lille newspapers reported that Mr Eugène Leleux, a brewer in Divion, had filed a complaint with the police concerning the theft of his car, which he had left on rue de la Comédie. He was able to regain possession of his car, which had been discovered during a police patrol. We do not know if it was his Type 55 cabriolet, but the notion is appealing.
In 1942, the car was entrusted to the good care of the Bugatti repair workshop at 75 quai Carnot in Levallois, managed by the famous Doctor Gabriel Espanet. A first letter and invoice dated 28th August 1942 states: "Following your letter of August 24, we have the advantage of sending you a single speed, two type 55 front springs and a steering wheel. As regards the rear spring slide supports, the model of which you sent us, we are writing to our factory in Bordeaux to send us a pair as soon as possible..." The invoice for 1,053 French francs was attached. By letter of 14th October 1942, the rear slides were provided in turn for the sum of 1,318 French francs.
A final letter of 30th December 1942, relates to the repair of the cylinder block: "As we had let you hope, in our letter of the 10th instant, we have been able to take, despite the current working conditions, the arrangements which have enabled us to finally complete the perfect repair of your cylinder unit. If the delay was a little long, the execution of the work is as precise as in normal times. The valves supplied in particular are of the best pre-war special steel and we have been able to maintain the old price for one last time. You will find them mounted in their guide, broken in, ready to run.
"During the assembly of the engine, it will be necessary to take care to leave them all in their respective place in each cylinder/the clearances (which are 50 hundredths intake and 60 hundredths exhaust) must therefore be obtained, possibly, by filing on the spot and the valve stem very carefully.
"Attached is the invoice concerning the repair of the unit by autogenous welding and the rectification, as well as the supply of the valves and guides, for a total sum of 6,519 French francs."
These letters shed light on the Bugatti factory's ability to continue its activities at the Levallois repair workshop and the relocated factory in Bordeaux. Soon this factory would close and the tools would be repatriated to Alsace by the new owner, H Trippel.
It is probable that the Type 55 convertible was used for another four years. A request for 'non-pledge' of the vehicle was registered in March and again in October 1947. The Bugatti was then sold in the Nord department and registered as '6803 ME' on 11th February 1948 in the name of Eugène Mulnard, an electrical engineer resident at 108 rue Grand Chemin in Roubaix. On 27th February 1951, the Type 55 was registered in the name of Miss Andrée Desplats, a secretary living at 58 rue du Molinel in Lille. The Bugatti was re-registered as '3553 AF 59'. Eugène Mulnard would later divorce his wife and marry Andrée Desplats in Lille in September 1965.
Eugène Mulnard was president of the Écurie Flandre, founded in Lille just after the war, whose notable members included the pilot/manufacturer Paul Delbarre, the Simca specialist Monnier, Jacky Pollet, Flamencourt (the team's official mechanic) and Werry the administrative director. Mulnard raced in the Monnier Spéciale with a BMW 328 engine at the Chimay Grand Prix in 1953 but retired with a gearbox problem.
In July 1988, Eugène Mulnard was kind enough to commit his Bugatti memories to paper for Bugatti authority Pierre-Yves Laugier: "The Bugatti 55217 was equipped when I bought it with a Cotal 32 mkg gearbox. I do not know if the assembly was done by Bugatti or any other mechanical workshop. The engine block was leaking some water at a spark plug cupola I repaired. In 1950, the Bugatti company rue Carnot in Levallois supplied me with pistons and rings. I completely dismantled the engine and all the parts remained detached for many years, not having time to take care of them.
"In 1975, I put everything back together. The only part that I could not find at Scintilla: the battery charge regulator. In 1980 the Bugatti was in perfect working order. This car has never been damaged, and always perfectly maintained. I did 117,000 km with it.
"Only one problem: while I was in Switzerland, around 1948, I filled up with gasoline, in this gasoline was incorporated at the time Tetra-ethyl lead. I had to drain and replace with unleaded gasoline.
"In 1949, I was in Germany. During my stay, there were heavy snowfalls, roads rutted by the war. The engine being very close to the ground. It had to stay two months in the garage. I was president of Écurie Flandres in which there were eight cars. We raced in Formula I and did rallies and hill climbs. The Bugatti has never been entered in any competition; it was the car I drove every day."
Dealer Bruno Vendiesse remembers that as a young enthusiast aged twenty in 1974, he went to see the Bugatti on display in the window of Flamencourt, who was a Simca agent in Mons en Baroel, and saw it again in the garages of the General Heating Company at 37 avenue du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny in Saint-André-lez-Lille. Mulnard had no place to park the car, which was stored at Georges Tranchet's saddlery in Lomme from 1976 to 1979, before its sale the following year.
The great Bugatti lover Marc Blanc of Montbrison bought the Type 55 cabriolet in 1980. He had known Mulnard for years, paying him frequent visits, but Mulnard was never inclined to sell the car. One day Mulnard contacted Marc Blanc, saying that he had decided to part with his Bugatti. He confided in him that he had four potential buyers but wished to visit them in turn to determine which was best able to restore the Bugatti to correct original specification. At that time Marc Blanc was reassembling his Type 35A in his garage. Mulnard was pleasantly surprised and immediately handed Blanc his business card as a bill of sale. The transaction, for a price of 250,000 French francs, satisfied both parties.
Blanc traveled to Wattrelos to take possession of the Type 55, which arrived in Montbrison towed by a Peugeot 504 belonging to the company. According to Marc Blanc, the Bugatti had had a minor collision leaving one of the wings out of line. The car remained in its garage in Montbrison between two Bugatti Grand Prix cars for nearly ten years, without being restarted. Marc Blanc then dismantled the engine, which he entrusted, together with the Cotal gearbox, to his official mechanic Marc Defour of Sury-le-Comtal for an overhaul. In 2009, the Type 55 was exhibited for the first time, at the Salon d'Avignon, and four years later was sold to collector Ton Meijer through dealers Bruno Vendiesse and Jaap Braam Ruben.
The Bugatti was driven to its new home in Carpentras but the engine was running poorly. It was decided to undertake a complete restoration, which was entrusted to the Ventoux Moteurs workshop run by Laurent and Raphael Rondoni. The rebuild would take more than three years to complete. The chassis was stripped bare and all the mechanicals overhauled, with some worn parts replaced. The cam boxes and the camshafts were manufactured by Rondoni together with the water pipes and compressor mounting gear. The split cylinder block was replaced with a new block obtained from Crosthwaite & Gardiner in Buxted, UK. The original roller-bearing crankshaft was overhauled with new connecting rods with cages and rollers from Brineton Engineering of Wolverhampton.
During the replacement of the Cotal gearbox, the old Bugatti gearbox's fixing holes were found, as well as those of the levers and the braking system, which had been modified to suit the Cotal which required a special crosspiece. A new gearbox from Crosthwaite was machined by Ventoux Moteurs and fitted with dog gears from Brineton Engineering.
The lined black hood and the upholstery work were entrusted to Ventoux Saddlery in Carpentras. The backs of the seats have been reduced in thickness and the door panels have been kept; only the seats have been changed. A beige carpet, identical to that on the base of the doors, was used as the cabin carpet.
The electrical wiring harness was remade by Rondoni, while the Scintilla lighting and magneto are original. The radiator was only cleaned, and the rear axle overhauled, as were the shock absorbers and the brakes. The front axle was re-nickeled and the original cast aluminum wheels retained. The exhaust, which had been shortened, was extended by a muffler and a silencer under the running board.
Restoration of the bodywork was entrusted to the good care of renowned Dutch workshop Dijkhof in Achterveld, which also took care of the restoration of Mr Meijer's former Bugatti Type 55 roadster. The body's timber framework was changed in large part because it was rotten,and the Bugatti was finally delivered to its owner around Christmas 2018. All original mechanical parts that were replaced were returned to the owner and are offered with the car.
Among the six Type 55 cabriolets bodied by Vanvooren in Courbevoie, '55217' is the only one to have retained its original bodywork on its 1932 chassis; all the others have been modified to a greater or lesser extent, while '55227' and '55236' no longer exist.
A Corris Railway train comprised of locomotive No.3, carriage No.8, two slate wagons, and guards van No.6 runs through Dolgoch woods on the Talyllyn Railway.
Taken on a charter organised by the Talyllyn Railway.
WEEK 43 – Southaven Burlington Relocation: Old Store, Set I
(cont.) ...these sorts of scenes were present here even earlier than March; you'll see plenty more throughout this photoset, including this view looking across the store. I'm standing in one of the bath and bedding aisles for this shot. The fitting rooms are nearby, across the way on the left, with lingerie on the right. Lots of empty carpet in the foreground... not a great sign. And no, your eyes (cynical though they may be, haha!*) don't deceive you – it does indeed look even worse beyond that.
* - Yes, I know the song reference was at the previous photo, but the link worked better here, so deal with it XD
(c) 2017 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Having started off on the rocks below the cliff opposite,we decided that a change of location would increase our chances of some decent sky colour and light.I think our move paid off :)
thanks to MICK,CLIFF,SIMON,SIMON,ALISTAIR
for popping along and making it an enjoyable trip,hope to see you again soon lads.
EXIF....F16....3 SECONDS....ISO 100....11MM....LEE 0.9H+0.6S ND GRADS
explore #435 23-jul-09
Social distancing means the 3 and 3A are now diverted along Leaside Road as Rosemount goes one way. Note the bus stop sheiks has been relocated to Leaside Road from the diversion route showing 3G which was withdrawn nine months before this stop was erected.
69133 heads for Mastrick on Leaside Road. It wasn’t appearing on the FirstBus app, I wonder if a temporary fault or if it hasn’t had the ticket machine download as it was off the road at the time.
My final two pictures today come not from Southaven’s Sam’s Club but its new Burlington store, which as you can see here, has finally had the privilege of receiving its new sign! It looks pretty nice, too, and even made sure to include “baby” in its string of words underneath the logo so that a separate Baby Depot sign wouldn’t have to be included elsewhere on the exterior, as I talked about last time. I was hoping to get a better angle from a spot off to the right from where I was standing for this one so that the sun wouldn’t interfere as much with my shot, but there were too many people parking in spaces over there for me to do that. What’s funny is that they were most all parking to enter this store, only to either walk up to the door and see that they weren’t open yet or be told that by other drivers in the parking lot :P
Burlington // 225 Goodman Road W, Southaven, MS 38671
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These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)