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London Police Service, canine K96.
From the 2015 Strathroy-Caradoc International Emergency Response Day.
Greater Manchester Police Volvo S60 Unmarked Response Car, seen parked outside Manchester Town Hall Police Station.
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Taking down a perp in Oyama! An erratic driver (alcohol is suspected) got a full court press from the Lake Country and area RCMP
2006 Volkswagen Transporter T5 2.5l Special Operations Logistics Vehicle. Was used for the delivery and collection of specialised equipment from SORT bases and emergency response to resupply SORT and other paramedic units at major incidents. Also used to provide supplies and welfare at large mass gatherings.
One of TVP's newer armed response units seen at their open day at their Sulhamstead training college, Berkshire. These volvos have replaced the S-max ARV's. some of which still remain in service. An example of one of the S-max ARV's can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/110046047@N08/11248464904/in/set-72...
Metropolitan Police Mitsubishi Outlander Unmarked Response Car, seen attending an unknown incident in Victoria Embankment Gardens, WC2N.
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American Medical Response Central Texas. Official healthcare provider of the University of Texas Longhorn Athletics.
West Mercia & Warwickshire Police | Armed Response Vehicle | BMW X5 | VO63 EYV sitting in traffic and getting a call literally the second I photographed it in Worcester, UK
To see a playlist of videos featuring police vehicles from across the UK, such as Metropolitan, British Transport, West Midlands, West Mercia & Warwickshire Police, responding, click here.
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Private Ambulance Service's lovely Ford Mondeo Titanium X Rapid Response Vehicle is seen here parked up at their base. My thanks go to the company for allowing us to visit for photos and positioning some of the vehicles for us!
20th May 2015
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West Midlands Police [BWR137] | Birmingham West Response | Vauxhall Insignia | BX14 FLD at Newtown Police Station, Birmingham
Thanks to the officers for the advice and for allowing us to get take during such a tense time for the police.
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N67019 - Douglas C-54P (DC-4) - Air Response
marked as Tanker 157
at Mesa Falcon Field (FFZ) in 1994
c/n 10.520 - built in 1945 for the USAF, later operated by the US Navy -
operated by Air Response between 1986 and 2000,
sold to Brooks Fuel for spares
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
Founded in 1976 the company has changed its name to International Air Response and currently owns, maintains, and operates a large fleet of Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft.
West Midlands Police Skoda Octavia Unmarked Response Car, seen parked nearby to former Steelhouse Lane Police Station, Birmingham.
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ABERDEEN, UK – Atlantic Offshore Rescue has commissioned the Ocean Troll emergency response and rescue vessel after a £2 million ($3 million) conversion and overhaul.
The vessel becomes a UK Class A EERV with tanker assist and fire fighting capabilities. It is the most powerful such vessel in the UK.
The 78-m (256-ft) long Ocean Troll is equipped with rescue craft including two daughter craft and two fast response craft. It complies with Norwegian legislation and can carry 300 people. With fire fighting capabilities of 4 x 1,800 cu m/hour (63,566 cu ft/hour), it has bollard pull of 150 metric tons (165.3 tons) and 12,560 BHP.
Atlantic Offshore Rescue also has placed orders for two high-specification TAV/ERRVs with one due to join the fleet in January 2014 and the other scheduled for completion in 2015.
The Ohio State University Department of Environmental Health and Safety Emergency Response Team (EHS ERT).
1970 Range Rover Carmichael 6-wheeled rapid response airport fire tender.
Last taxed and last MoT test expired in May 2014.
Cheffins vintage and classic auction, Sutton -
"Chassis No. 35500002A. This machine was assembled as a pre-production prototype at the Solihull plant on 12th December 1969 and was finished in Lincoln Green. It was then sent to Land Rover to star in the promotional film A Car For All Seasons. The prototype was then converted to a rapid response airport fire tender having been designed by Land Rovers engineers and incorporating the distinctive third axle and suitably lengthened chassis. The modified frame was then passed to Carmichael Ltd of Worcester who produced the hand built aluminium body to Land Rovers requirements. April 1971 saw Carmichael purchase the tender for use as a demonstrator, Marshall Airport in Cambridge then purchased it in 1974 but it is related that it was rolled over on delivery and consequently recovered, repaired and fitted with a production fibre-glass body. It remained on active duty at the airport until 2003 from where the current owner purchased it. The vendor relates that this is a running, driving vehicle with all of the ancillary equipment in working order and complete with hoses and fittings. Such a rarity has naturally been extensively shown and has featured in numerous magazine articles, copies of which feature in the extensive history file which is accompanied by an MOT valid until April 2013 and current V5C documentation. A real collectors piece."
Hammer price £8000.
In response to emails I got about yesterdays kindle post I'm posting this pic. Yes, you can see the screen in direct sunlight at any angle. The kindle is lying flat on a table in midday sun, no glare. So glad there is so much interest in kindle, I'm very happy with mine. Enjoy.
Nikon D7000
Nikkor 18-105mm
Exposure 1/500 sec.
Aperture f/6.3
Focal Length 105 mm
ISO Speed 100
Don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without explicit permission from Laurarama.
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London Ambulance Service | Hazardous Area Response Team - temporary Incident Response Unit | Ford Transit | NJ13 KXT out and about in the pouring rain, London, UK
To see a video of this responding, click here.
To see a playlist of videos featuring Ambulance vehicles from across the UK, such as London, West Midlands, South Western, Welsh and St.John Ambulance services, responding, click here.
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A Northumbria Police Vauxhall Astra 24/7 response car, is pictured on patrol in Newcastle City Centre. This has received new front Police wording since being delivered from the workshops.
Roof Code: 10/UNA
Update 05/12: Confirmed Forth Banks based.
Further update 05/10/2023: vehicle now decomissioned & scrapped from fleet.
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Chartwell is a country house near Westerham, Kent, in South East England. For over forty years, it was the home of Sir Winston Churchill. He bought the property in September 1922 and lived there until shortly before his death in January 1965. During the 1930s, when Churchill was out of political office, Chartwell became the centre of his world. At his dining table, he gathered those who could assist his campaign against German re-armament and the British government's response of appeasement; in his study, he composed speeches and wrote books; in his garden, he built walls, constructed lakes — both with his own hands — and painted. During the Second World War, Chartwell was largely unused, the Churchills returning after he lost the 1945 election. In 1953, when again prime minister, the house became Churchill's refuge when he suffered a debilitating stroke. In October 1964, he left for the last time, dying at his London home, 28 Hyde Park Gate, on 24 January 1965.
The origins of the estate reach back to the 14th century; in 1382, the property (then called Well-street) was owned by William-at-Well. It passed through various owners and was auctioned in 1836, as a substantial brick-built manor. In 1848, it was purchased by John Campbell Colquhoun, whose grandson sold it to Churchill. The Campbell Colquhouns greatly enlarged the house and the advertisement for its sale at the time of Churchill's purchase described it as an imposing mansion. Between 1922 and 1924, it was rebuilt and extended by the society architect Philip Tilden. From the garden front, the house has extensive views over the Weald of Kent, "the most beautiful and charming" Churchill had ever seen, and the determining factor in his decision to buy the house.
In 1946, when financial constraints forced Churchill to consider selling Chartwell, it was acquired by the National Trust with funds raised by a consortium of Churchill's friends (led by Lord Camrose), on condition that the Churchills retained a life-tenancy. After Churchill's death, Lady Churchill surrendered her rights to the house, and it was opened to the public by the Trust in 1966 as a historic house museum. A Grade I listed building, for its historical significance rather than its architectural merit, Chartwell has become among the Trust's most popular properties; 232,000 people visited the house in 2016, the fiftieth anniversary of its opening.
Churchill at Chartwell
1922 to 1939
Chartwell – Clementine Churchill's "magnificent aerial bower" to the left
Churchill first saw Chartwell in July 1921, shortly before the house and estate were to be auctioned.[11] He returned the same month with his wife Clementine, who was initially attracted to the property, although her enthusiasm cooled during subsequent visits.[12] In September 1922, when the house had failed to sell at auction, he was offered it for £5,500. He paid £5,000, after his first offer of £4,800, made because "the house will have to be very largely rebuilt, and the presence of dry rot is a very serious adverse factor", was rejected.[13] The seller was Captain Archibald John Campbell Colquhoun, who had inherited the house in June 1922 on the death of his brother.[14] Campbell Colquhoun had been a contemporary of Churchill's at Harrow School in the 1880s. On completion of the sale in September 1922, Churchill wrote to him, "I am very glad indeed to have become the possessor of "Chartwell".[1] I have been searching for two years for a home in the country and the site is the most beautiful and charming I have ever seen".[14] The sale was concluded on 11 November 1922.[15]
The previous 15 months had been personally and professionally calamitous. In June 1921, Churchill's mother had died, followed three months later by his youngest child, Marigold.[15] In late 1922, he fell ill with appendicitis and at the end of the year lost his Scottish parliamentary seat at Dundee.[16]
Philip Tilden, Churchill's architect, began work on the house in 1922 and the Churchills rented a farmhouse near Westerham, with Churchill frequently visiting the site to observe progress.[17] The two-year building programme, the ever-rising costs – which escalated from the initial estimate of £7,000 to over £18,000 – and a series of construction difficulties (particularly relating to damp) soured relations between architect and client;[18] by 1924, Churchill and Tilden were barely on speaking terms.[19][a][b] Legal arguments, conducted through their respective lawyers, continued until 1927.[22] Clementine's anxieties about the costs, both of building and subsequently living at Chartwell, also continued. In September 1923, Churchill wrote to her, "My beloved, I beg you not to worry about money, or to feel insecure. Chartwell is to be our home (and) we must endeavour to live there for many years."[23] Churchill finally moved into the house in April 1924; a letter dated 17 April to Clementine begins, "This is the first letter I have ever written from this place, and it is right that it should be to you".[24]
In February 1926, Churchill's political colleague Sir Samuel Hoare described a visit in a letter to the press baron Lord Beaverbrook; "I have never seen Winston before in the role of landed proprietor, ... the engineering works on which he is engaged consist of making a series of ponds in a valley and Winston appeared to be a great deal more interested in them than in anything else in the world".[25] As Hoare's presence indicated, Churchill's holidays were very rarely pure vacations. Roy Jenkins, in his study, The Chancellors, contrasted Churchill's approach to holidaying with that of his then boss, Stanley Baldwin. "Churchill went to Chartwell or elsewhere to lengthen the stride of his political work, but not greatly to reduce its quantity; far from shutting himself off, he persuaded as many as possible of his colleagues and henchmen to visit him, to receive his ever-generous hospitality."[26] In January 1928, James Lees-Milne stayed as a guest of Churchill's son Randolph. He described an evening after dinner; "We remained at that round table till after midnight. Mr Churchill spent a blissful two hours demonstrating with decanters and wine glasses how the Battle of Jutland was fought. He got worked up like a schoolboy, making barking noises in imitation of gunfire, and blowing cigar smoke across the battle scene in imitation of gun smoke".[27] On 26 September 1927, Churchill composed the first of his Chartwell Bulletins, which were lengthy letters to Clementine, written to her while she was abroad. In the bulletins, Churchill described in great detail the ongoing works on the house and the gardens, and aspects of his life there. The 26 September letter opens with a report of Churchill's deepening interest in painting; "Sickert arrived on Friday night and we worked very hard at various paintings ... I am really thrilled ... I see my way to paint far better pictures than I ever thought possible before".[28]
Churchill described his life at Chartwell during the later 1930s in the first volume of his history of the Second World War, The Gathering Storm. "I had much to amuse me. I built ... two cottages, ... and walls and made ... a large swimming pool which ... could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine. Thus I ... dwelt at peace within my habitation".[29] Bill Deakin, one of Churchill's research assistants, recalled his working routine. "He would start the day at eight o'clock in bed, reading. Then he started with his mail. His lunchtime conversation was quite magnificent, ...absolutely free for all. After lunch, if he had guests he would take them round the garden. At seven he would bathe and change for dinner. At midnight, when the guests left, then he would start work ... to three or four in the morning. The secret was his phenomenal power to concentrate."[30][c] In his study of Churchill as author, the historian Peter Clarke described Chartwell as "Winston's word factory"
In the opinion of Robin Fedden, a diplomat, and later Deputy General Secretary of the National Trust and author of the Trust's first guidebook for Chartwell, the house became "the most important country house in Europe".[34] The historian Graham Stewart, in his study of Tory Party politics, Burying Caesar, described it as "a sort of Jacobite court of St Germain".[35][e] A stream of friends, colleagues, disgruntled civil servants, concerned military officers and foreign envoys came to the house to provide information to support Churchill's struggle against appeasement.[f] At Chartwell, he developed what Fedden calls, his own "little Foreign Office ... the hub of resistance".[38] The Chartwell visitors' book, meticulously maintained from 1922, records 780 house guests, not all of them friends, but all grist to Churchill's mill.[39] An example of the latter was Sir Maurice Hankey, Clerk of the Privy Council, who was Churchill's guest for dinner in April 1936. Hankey subsequently wrote, "I do not usually make a note of private conversations but some points arose which gave an indication of the line which Mr Churchill is likely to take in forthcoming debates (on munitions and supply) in Parliament".[40] A week later, Reginald Leeper, a senior Foreign Office official and confidant of Robert Vansittart, visited Churchill to convey their views on the need to use the League of Nations to counter German aggression. Vansittart wrote, "there is no time to lose. There is indeed a great danger that we shall be too late".[41]
Churchill also recorded visits to Chartwell by two more of his most important suppliers of confidential governmental information, Desmond Morton and Ralph Wigram, information which he used to "form and fortify my opinion about the Hitler Movement".[g][43] Their sharing of data on German rearmament was at some risk to their careers; the military historian Richard Holmes is clear that Morton's actions breached the Official Secrets Act.[44] Chartwell was also the scene of more direct attempts to prepare Britain for the coming conflict; in October 1939, when reappointed First Lord of the Admiralty on the outbreak of war, Churchill suggested an improvement for anti-aircraft shells; "Such shells could be filled with zinc ethyl which catches fire spontaneously ... A fraction of an ounce was demonstrated at Chartwell last summer".[45][h]
In 1938, Churchill, beset by financial concerns, again considered selling Chartwell,[47] at which time the house was advertised as containing five reception rooms, nineteen bed and dressing rooms, eight bathrooms, set in eighty acres with three cottages on the estate and a heated and floodlit swimming pool.[i] He withdrew the sale after the industrialist Henry Strakosch agreed to take over his share portfolio, which had been hit heavily by losses on Wall Street, for three years and pay off significant associated debts.[49] In September 1938, the Russian Ambassador, Ivan Maisky, made his first visit and recorded his impressions of Chartwell: "A wonderful place! A two-storey house, large and tastefully presented; the terrace affords a breathtaking view of Kent's hilly landscape; ponds with goldfish of varying size; a pavilion-cum-studio with dozens of paintings - his own creations - hanging on the walls; his pride and joy, a small brick cottage which he was building with his own hands".[j] His impression of his host was somewhat less favourable; asked what special occasion would lead Churchill to drink a bottle of wine dating from 1793 from his cellar, Churchill had replied - "We'll drink this together when Great Britain and Russia beat Hitler's Germany". Maisky's unspoken reaction was recorded in his diary, "Churchill's hatred of Berlin really has gone beyond all limits!" Wikipedia
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Northumbria Police Volvo XC70 Authorities 2.4TDI Armed Response Vehicle
KM15CCO - Roof ID; UMY
Northumbria Police Vauxhall Astra Sport Tourer 1.6CDTI
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In response to a comment I made about the Nikon Nikkor S Auto 50mm f/1.4, I thought I'd take a walk through one of my favorite cemeteries. Maybe to choose my preferred resting plot.
I shot each scene at three apertures - f/1.4, f/2, and f/2.8. I've posted a few of these sequences here to illustrate how image rendering can change over these three aperture settings. While I think the differences are obvious, if you're not sure which is which, let me know.
In most cases where I've posted only a single image, it's usually where the lens was set to f/1.4.
My comment had been about the way this lens, the Nikkor S Auto, renders wide open. To me it has a number of qualities that I like in special purpose soft focus lenses. That is, images can be sharp with an overlay of spherical aberration that softens a scene behind the point of focus. I also observe that in-focus highlights can take on an interesting "glow."
So I thought I'd better get this project done and out of the way as I'm abot to enter a rather busy period of travel and the image making opportunities travel can bring. I'll be occupied for three full months before I can come back to my usual and customary boring existence where I'm looking for photo opportunities.
This is one of my latest models which replicates one of the BMW X5 vehicles that Essex Police use as Armed Response Vehicles.The model is of EU62 EOB. This is the first model I have built of Essex vehicles since they have changed their base colour back over to white in the last couple of years.
The model has been re-sprayed from it's original colour of black, had it's interior painted black, had it's rear windows tinted and full Essex Police livery applied. I've also added a clear Whelen Liberty light bar to the roof and a police comms aerial. The model has had the correct roof codes and number plates fitted. Also note the correct extra yellow markings on the bonnet and lower front bumper.
See a picture of the real vehicle here: www.flickr.com/photos/49027694@N03/8518798346/in/photolis...
West Midlands Fire Service [CO(11/12?) & CO75] | Pump Rescue Ladder & Brigade Response Vehicle | Dennis Sabre XL & Toyota Hilux Invincible | BU03 TPV & MX14 FYJ at the scene of a Make Pumps 4 high-rise fire. Two more PRLs turned up shortly afterwards.
To see all appliances responding, including police and ambulance - as well as on-scene, click here.
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Port of Liverpool Police
Roof Code: 159
Role: Incident Response Vehicle (4WD)
Make: Nissan Navara
Station: Seaforth
Res-Q has always been one of my favorite themes. This is a series of modern interpretations of the 1998 sets.
The Vulcan bomber was designed in response to a specification issued in 1947 at the height of the cold war. To help gain data for the radical new design, several 'mini-Vulcans' were built; these were the Avro Type 707s. Finally, in 1952, the first Type 698 (VX770) flew. There followed Several spectacular appearances at the Farnborough Air show including a full roll at the 1955 show (try that in a B-52!). There were various modifications before finally in 1956 the delivery of production Vulcan B.1s to the RAF began. The last Vulcan B.1A was withdrawn from service by 1968 by which time the three remaining squadrons had been re-equipped with the B.2 variant which had a longer range, the ability to carry a heavier payload and much improved self-defence measures. In November 1981, it was decided to withdraw the Vulcan from service in June 1982 and the Vulcan would have flown for its entire service life without ever dropping a bomb in anger However, the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands in the spring of 1982 gave the Vulcan an extended lease of life, and an unexpected swansong at the end of its distinguished RAF career.
Sitting beside the A15 road just south of Lincoln at RAF Waddington stands Avro Vulcan XM607, the very first Vulcan to drop bombs on the runway at Port Stanley airfield during the 1982 Falklands war. The mission "Black Buck 1" (sometimes referred to as mission impossible) was to put a Vulcan over the Falklands to bomb a 40-yard wide target from a height of 10,000ft. Had the Falklands not been 3,886 miles away from the nearest usable airfield, this would not have been quite such a difficult task to actually carry out! Flying to the Falklands from Ascension Island, a small island near the coast of Africa, would take eight hours flying time and require multiple in-flight refuelling sessions. In all eleven Victor tankers would be needed. A carefully planned sequence had the Victors refuelling both the Vulcan (XM607) and the other tankers, with increasingly smaller numbers of tankers continuing with the Vulcan while empty tankers returned to Ascension. Due to unexpected differences in the performance of the Vulcan and Victor, many of the Victors returned with barely enough fuel to land - at one point several Victors had to land one after the other, without even enough spare fuel to allow the previous Victors to clear the end of the runway. The last Victor had to give up so much fuel to the Vulcan that it did not have enough fuel left to reach the island, so another Victor had to be scrambled to refuel the incoming Victor so it could reach the airfield! For the six-man crew of Vulcan XM607, in the early hours of May 1, it was beginning to turn into a suicide mission. Some 300 miles out from the target the final mid-air refuelling of the Vulcan was beginning, the last in an immensely complex alternation of 11 tankers and 15 fuel transfers which had been involved in getting the bomber this far. The gauge spun up to 7,000 gallons - just a fraction of its total fuel capacity of 36,000 - and then the tanker signalled that it could give them no more. The tanker was even lower on fuel than the Vulcan and had probably sacrificed its crew to give the Vulcan a fighting chance of reaching the target. Problems had come about as the last two tankers were busy fuelling each other before giving the Vulcan the fuel it would need to return from its mission when, at 40 degrees south, the convoy flew into the path of a raging electrical storm. The two Victors were thrown around and the fuel hose thrashed between them until eventually the probe sheared off one of the tankers which was due to shepherd XM607 to its last refuelling. Having come this far, although desperately short of fuel, the crew decided to press on. At 290 miles away from the target, XM607 began a shallow descent towards Port Stanley to approach low to minimise its 'footprint' and then climb upwards to 8000 or 10,000 feet to try to stay clear of the "kill zone" of the Argentinian defences.A radar contact appeared: XM607 was dead on target. It was 4.30am local time, when the Vulcan roared upwards, straight into view of the Argentine search radars. But the young radar operators were unperturbed. The bomber could only be one of theirs - this had not been a shooting war so far. During the few minutes it took the Argentinians to wake up to the fact that this was in fact an enemy aircraft, the Vulcan had soared to its 10,000ft altitude and levelled off for the bomb run. Two miles from the runway the first of the thousand-pounders fell away from the Vulcan's cavernous belly. When all 21 were away, the Vulcan turned in a steep curve, in time for the crew to see a blossom of fire as the first bomb bored deep into the centre of the runway and detonated. Other blasts hit the airfield, gouging out massive chunks of its surface. Vulcan XM607 did, in fact, have enough fuel to make the rendezvous as is evidenced by this photo. It returned to Ascension Island and a heroes' welcome. The most ambitious sortie since World War II, had by the skin of its teeth been successful.
Today seems an appropriate day to post this shot for it is the 27th anniversary of the raid.
Scent is processed through two parallel, independent pathways in many mammals. Ordinary odors are detected in the main olfactory epithelium in the nose, which sends signals to the main olfactory bulb in the brain, while pheremones are detected in the vomeronasal organ, which sends signals to the accessory olfactory bulb. To draw air into the vomeronasal organ, an animal may open its mouth and draw back its lips while sniffing deeply -- the flehmen response. You may have noticed your domestic kitty giving this sort of grimace when investigating a particularly interesting odor. Here it is seen here in a male leopard that had been investigating a scent marking in the grass below.