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Text-speak was in vogue in the mid-2000s and First used ‘FTR Metro’ as a trendy way to claim this vehicle was the ‘future’. Considering they were highly specified with features like next stop announcements and real-time departure information, they genuinely were forerunners in providing amenities which have since become more widespread.
However the most futuristic thing the tram-styled-bus concept ever did is predict the similar looking Irizar iE Tram which Liverpool are currently trying to convince you is not a “bus” but a “Metro” – which seems to be more like something flashy the local politicians want to show off while unwilling to cough up the cash for a real tram system. At which point it’s just a less practical bus.
Although I knew this was a resident here, I’m surprised any of these unusual Wright Streetcars survive at all. First operated them on dedicated routes in York, Leeds and Swansea from around 2006/7 until operations petered out in 2012 (York), 2015 (Swansea) and 2016 (Leeds) – although some in Swansea did reappear in the new ‘urban’ livery with Unibus branding and no information provided about it? But otherwise these costly vehicles were removed from service after approximately 9 years.
19000 was the prototype of the FTR buses and demonstrated in various cities before settling down to work on the York FTR system, before later transferring to the Swansea one. At least that explains why most of the text down the side is in Welsh! At Swansea it gained the registration S90 FTR. Presumably all the other Streetcars in Britain have been scrapped with this the sole survivor?
Underneath the fancy bodywork they have a Volvo B7LA chassis, which I guess must’ve been adapted for the high driving position and lack of front overhang. From what I’ve read they were underpowered, which is kind of understandable when the engine was probably driving an AC compressor the whole time and Volvo’s D7C power unit being a bit on the small side for heavier duty applications anyway.
When new the Streetcars had front wheel covers which were somehow set up to turn with the steering, but apparently liked to fall off so were removed and replaced with conventional wheel trims. Funnily enough the Irizar iE Tram also has the same kind of front wheel covers, and with it mirroring the Wright Streetcar to basically the last detail I can’t help but wonder if it’s doomed to repeat the same mistakes.
The preference for double deckers (with fewer doors) in the British Isles over the multi-door, standee-type articulated buses of elsewhere has sparked many a debate over the years, which I really don’t want to get into here, but the entire ecosystem of how buses tend to operate in this country is difficult to fit articulated buses into – especially ones trying to be trams. ACTUAL trams, meanwhile, have proven to be quite successful.
With more areas moving over franchising, and more regional mayors interested in get-popular-quick transport schemes with limited budgets, perhaps the tram-bus concept really will become the “ftr” it was promised to be?
South Yorkshire Transport Trust September 2025 open day, Eastwood (Rotherham), 28.9.25
After taking some photos of Greg, I couldn't help but order one of these huge cardboard standees after seeing a Facebook ad.
(scan from 35mm negative)
(featured in the February 2008 issue of Chicago Magazine and on Gapers Block 12/23/05)
Update January 2010: Standees closes after 60 years!
© Andy Marfia 2003 All Rights Reserved
The standee display at The Fullerton Hotel for the Adventures of Grumpy Cat exhibition by Yip Yew Chong.
This shabby diner is located on Granville between Broadway and the CTA Red Line L. It's little over photographed, but there are condos going up across the street, so who knows how much longer this place will be around.
UPDATE: Standee's is apparently closing: chicagoist.com/2009/12/30/requiem_for_standees.php
Standees hold on tight as San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) cable car 5 curves from Taylor St onto Columbus Ave, operating a Powell-Mason Line service to Powell & Market. Car 5 was built by Carter Bros. in 1893, and now sports a simplified version of the original 1888 Powell car livery.
Op zaterdag 18-10-2014 reden 5 museumtrams van het HOVM (Haags Openbaar Vervoer Museum) in een kwartierdienst over de route van lijn 11 van station Hollands Spoor naar Scheveningen. PCC 1022 - gebouwd door fabrikant La Brugeoise in 1952 met de kleine bovenraampjes voor staande passagiers (Amerikaanse 'standee windows') - rijdt hier over de Conradkade ter hoogte van de Newtonstraat. De vernieuwde kademuur ziet er inmiddels weer aardig doorleefd uit met - voor het oog fraaie - vochtplekken.
On Saturday 18-10-2014 the Tramway Museum in The Hague (HOVM Haags Openbaar Vervoer Museum) put in service 5 historic tramcars on the route of line 11 to Scheveningen. PCC 1022 - built by La Brugeoise in 1952 with the so-called standee windows - is spotted here at Conradkade.
© Paul van Baarle - no unauthorised use. Press L to view Large.
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@ .Gacha Guild. Halftime Hunt!
The first two are little bits from the event itself. The plans are the actual doodle I did in planning to mesh the airship the event sits on top of, which I shrank down here into a tabletop model for my second prize!
The third is a character born of GG Hallows Carnivale as an attraction standee. Dipper the bear is his name and he was created for GG by my good friend ZiggyStarbat (SL name). Here, Dipper is imprisoned for who knows what, but that doesn't stop him from having very strong feelings about a special someone.
Get these as prizes in the Halftime Hunt at .Gacha Guild. this month! The hunt began today and will run until the 31st!
If you're interested in the other prizes, check out the guide~
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The standee display at The Fullerton Hotel for the Adventures of Grumpy Cat exhibition by Yip Yew Chong.
*between 1970 and 1973 I did hundreds of of "standee" cut out paintings. The idea came to me from seeing life size photographs of movie stars appearing in the featured films of the day. They were usually placed on the sidewalks in front of movie houses to attract viewers. At night time and when it rained they would be placed in the lobby. After their run, they would be discarded. I obtained several painting them over with portraits of friends and foes. When I was asked by a gallery to show my "latest works" none of the standees were selected reason being that they were too "gimmicky"
None of these wonderful collages have survived and as I once again am working in this medium I am willing to share these forgotten gems of years gone by with my flickr. friends. Kindly advise if you would enjoy seeing them, for they are on transparencies and must be scanned first.
Thank you.
P.S. We used to call art studios "living rooms" for it is there that we lived. Unlike today where we simply go to paint.
for a musical rendition, see and hear the "paris combo's version of "living rooms" in my comment box bellow, thank you !
SAVED!! by the National Save The Sign Museum. The AD Sign company's 60 year old neon sign will be going to Indiana.
Standee's Restaurant
1133 West Granville
Chicago, Illinois
Cook County, USA.
1950 – 2010 Standee’s (60 years) 👍
2011 – 2013 ? M. Henrietta ~ Chow For Now
2014 – 2018 ? Revival Social Club (Vegan food)
2019 -? Farm Bar
2022 – Vacant store front
It seems like a new business only stays in business 3 or 4 years now.
2014 Henrietta
2015 Revival
2019 Farm Bar
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cutout
cardboard
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One person at each table could purchase the motorcycle and the doll.
AML569H coming staight down the very steep Matlock Cable Tramway route, past the Gate Hotel onto Bank Road in Matlock on 9 September 1981.
With pupils clearly holding on tightly in the large front standee section, the bus had been newly introduced on the contract from Highfields Upper School to Elton, operated by J H Woolliscroft and Sons trading as Silver Service of Darley Dale.
Dubbed the cattle truck by the local paper, and safety fears from parents forced a change of route and more seats to be fitted.
This 1970 AEC Merlin 4P2R with MCW B32D body was originally London Transport MBS569.
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"A Jenna Coleman standee! Thanks! Just what I always wanted... well, not quite... I may have been hoping for something a little more 3-Dish..."
"Yeah, dream on Baghead, that's the closest you're ever going to get to her. Especially with all those court orders in place! Awww... thanks for the teddy... I've got something cute to cuddle at night with now!"
"So have I, Shell,... though I'm afraid it might get a bit bent and creased!"
And while Santa also left Shelley a whole bag of tangerines for being a good girl all year Baghead got his usual lump of coal (with a razor blade inside!).
Bi-State Development Agency PCC 1606 on the Hodiamont Loop in Saint Louis, Missouri on August 14, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. There were several PCC window configurations from Saint Louis Car Company, with and without standee windows. Apparently, the odd widow spacing in the middle of the car was to accommodate center exit doors on this side of the car, if so ordered. This car was built by the Saint Louis Car Company in 1941 on Job 1631, an order for 100 PCC cars numbered 1600-1699.
In 1970 PMT took delivery of twenty single deck 36ft long Daimler Fleetlines with Alexander 'W' type bodies in lieu of a cancelled order for more Roadliners. I think it's fair to say these substitutes were never particularly popular with road staff as they were not particularly lively or with the mechanical folks either due to structural problems encountered with body flexing. The longest serving of them, even though they were mechanically reliable, only achieved eight years with it's original owner. Some passed to (Belfast) Citybus and a handful went south to fellow NBC subsidiary East Kent where their high standing capacity was put to good use on railway station to channel port operations.
Here ex PMT 147, BEH 147H is seen going about it's new duties in downtown Dover bedecked in it's dedicated Seaspeed livery for the former BR operated Hovercraft service to France.
Of the whole batch, there's only one known survivor and 147 is that one. It passed from East Kent to a cadet brigade and thence into preservation. After several owners and restoration to PMT guise in NBC poppy red, the bus has now returned to Kent ... who says history doesn't repeat itself!
By way of a little note, having driven this bus on several occasions, it's certainly a lot more nimble and sound than their former detractors would have us believe.
VWH2204 (LK66DWW), VWH2238 (LK66EOG), VWH2207 (LK66DWY) and VWH2208 (LK66DWP) on stand at Harrow Weald Bus Garage.
A yellow and green 1956 Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster coach with colour coordinated interior on display at Circular Quay.
These bodies were known as standees as they allowed standing passengers to look out through the small fixed windows above the opening windows for seated passengers.
The Royal Tiger was one of the first European made buses with the engine placed horizontally under the floor........Sydney Bus Museum
Young Street, Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia (Tuesday 29 June 2010 @ 11:56am).
To go with yesterday's picture of BEH 147H, here's 148H in as delivered condition from an excellent negative in the PMT archive. The location of this scene is the A34 between Hanford and Trentham.
Due to the multiple window lines of the Alexander 'W Type' body,, applying two colours in a meaningful way was a challenge . . . even a white stripe in NBC days was problematic.
As a young lad of ten when these buses first appeared in 1970, I recall them turning my head in a way no other bus has ever done at first sight. Sadly they weren't popular with drivers though who found them somewhat heavy and ponderous. PMT's initial plan was to have these bodied as 80+ seat OMO double deckers, but union resistance caused them to opt for this 'standee' single deck layout.
Underneath the stylish coachwork was a 36ft long Daimler Fleetline chassis.
Hastily superimposed on today's programme was a request from Crewe Heritage Centre to move ex PMT Alexander 'W type' single deck Daimler Fleetline due to some building modifications being carried out. BEH 147H has lived there for some time now as a transport related exhibit, but is due to leave the site permanently soon for a new home 'darrn sarf'.
Arriving there armed with a couple of batteries which were fitted in between bouts of thunder, lightening and hail, the now unique standee saloon burst into life at the first touch of the button. The only casualties during it's period of 'storage' appear to be a burst fluid accelerator pipe and a similarly fractured air pipe under the front end. The latter will require attention before being driven back to our place, but 'crew' operation will overcome the lack of accelerator;-)
Here the handsome beast stands, having completed it's short move today, alongside the prototype electric powered BR Advanced Passenger Train. The APT project was abandoned by British Rail and it's political masters during the mid '80s, but only after millions of pounds had been spent on development. Nowadays it fulfils the humble roles of meeting rooms and cafeteria for which it's slightly over qualified. The train is an exhibit for which the Heritage Centre is renowned being visible from passing services on the West Coast Main Line just over the wall.
After finally being removed from it's long term lodgings at Crewe Heritage Centre, Ex PMT Alexander 'W' Type single deck Fleetline is finally on it's way to returning to the road. The above picture was taken yesterday after some work to repair burst air and fluid throttle pipes ... complimented by a good wash off. It was taken in Lower Ash Road, Kidsgrove a route occasionally worked by the type as they plodded between Butt Lane and Mow Cop on the lightly loaded 147 service lost around the time of the NBC's MAP project.. Mow Cop's 'folly' castle can be seen lit by the sunlight on top of the hill in the background.
PMT's call for such as BEH 147H came about as a result of the operator cancelling their order for more Roadliners, though ultimately these Fleetlines ended up being sold off with little more 'in service' time under their belts. Matters may have been influenced however by PMT's increasing dislike of dual door buses (or 'standees' as the type were referred to) rather than reliability issues. The batch as a whole had something of a reputation for being 'pedestrian' in their performance and heavy on the handle-bars, but to be honest, 147 displays neither trait.
... although when photographed from this angle it's difficult to tell which is which. On the left is AML 97H, an AH 505 engined 'mediumweight' Swift and on the right is VLW 444G, built with AH 691 engine but now believed to possess a 12.47 litre AH 760. London Transport latched onto AEC's initial idea of referring to the heavy duty Swift as a Merlin and it stuck (with them and nobody else!). AEC went on to simply distinguish between the two by the terms 'Swift 505' and 'Swift 691'.
AML has bodywork by Park Royal whilst VLW's came from MCW to 'standee' design and only actually seated 25, the remaining throng had to stand.
Today saw hasty and intensive attention to the 'Merlin' so that it could at least move around under it's own power. A rotten and holed air tank was repaired, pipework and the air unloader valve rodded and de-coked and the fuel pump timing sorted out. I can now just listen to it tickiing over for minutes at a time, it sounds wonderful!
Found this Twilight saga mystery acrylic standee at Box lunch store and I am so happy I got an Edward one. I wish they weren't blind packs I really hate not knowing what im getting.
So I was looking at the Box lunch website beacause of the black friday sale they were having and I found these twilight mystery acrylic standees. I wish they werent blind boxes I hate not knowing what im buying but I had to get atleast 2 cuz of the sale. The price was too good to pass up. I'll be posting what I got within the next week.
Two classics that went before their time here. The AEC Merlin was basically an AEC Swift (I think!) that was developed especially for London Transport and was used in standee mode on Red Arrow services that linked the main London railway terminals with central London. The one depicted here is MBA582 (Merlin Bus Arrow) and is a Britbus model.
Up on the viaduct is a Class 35 'Hymek' Diesel Hydraulic locomotive that was rendered unemployed when British Rail decided to standardise on Diesel Electric traction. The Hydraulics were based on the former Western region and these along with the Warships and Westerns never recieved TOPS numbers, hence this one retaining its D7036 number. The livery carried is rail blue with the addition of a small yellow warning panel and white windscreen surrounds. This is a Heljan model that has been weathered after purchase.
The interior of this 1993 Wright bodied Dennis Dart, still looking very original with its London Standee configuration.
Another shot taken in the Old Melbourne Gaol with my Ned Kelly standee made for the Federation Peoplescape project in 2001.
(The picture was probably taken by a publicist. )
The original suits of makeshift Kelly Gang armour encased to either side of me have recently had their components shuffled and reidentified but the harness on the left was then traditionally regarded as belonging to Ned Kelly himself.
For more information see the master photo of this set:
www.flickr.com/photos/83287853@N00/3392304338/
Fellow Flickerite Alan Jordan (check out his beaut Photostream here: www.flickr.com/photos/alan-jordan/) has inspired me to include some more detail about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mention of Ned Kelly's armour. I've lifted it out of the Comments for inclusion in this description.
"It was left to Ned Kelly to show the world the need for body armour."
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle was certain that the Germans were preparing for war in the early years of the 20th Century, not as a result of any 'spiritualist' warnings I hasten to add (sadly, the man behind the Great Detective swallowed that guff and other absurdities probably inspired by his grief for lost loved ones) but because he'd heard rumblings from the German contingent at an international automobile event in 1911. He worked out that airplanes and submarines would be a major factor in the coming war and tried to warn the British government about the threat. They pretty much ignored him, though ironically the Germans did later use his warnings as propaganda, taunting their enemies that the idea of a submarine blockade had come to them after they'd heard Doyle's warnings. (He also supported the idea of a cross channel tunnel as one possible way of getting around submarine blockades...)
Doyle went on to use his popularity as an author to quite good effect during World War 1. After several British cruisers were sunk with tremendous loss of life in the early stages of the conflict he successfully campaigned for the War Office to introduce the forerunners of inflatable rubber life preservers for sailors. These later evolved into life jackets. Imagine how many lives that one idea has saved since then. Later, he mounted another campaign about carrying inflatable lifeboats aboard military vessels.
Doyle's own Boer War military medical experience and observations during the Great War plus his own enthusiasm about medieval knights in armour (he wrote some ripping yarns set in the Middle Ages, in addition to his better known Sherlock Holmes novels) led him to correctly deduce that soldiers on the modern battlefield were most vulnerable to shrapnel created by shell bursts and that body armour, especially metal helmets, would save lives. He also, very sensibly, thought that it was useless for unprotected troops to advance in the face of heavy machine gun fire. As you'd expect, he was also an advocate of the use of armoured fighting vehicles, which is to say, tanks...(You're welcome!) He was one of many who recommended that British tommies adopt protective kit, including helmets and bullet resistant vests. Again, something that has had a huge effect upon 20th and 21st century warfare.
"The head should be protected by a helmet such as the French have now evolved. The heart could be covered by a curved plate of highly tempered steel."
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (letter to The Times)
Ned, incidentally, didn't die directly as a result of being shot in the legs at Glenrowan, though he was captured, tried and hanged. On the day at least, his armour did indeed save his life, as the was hit multiple times by what would almost certainly have been otherwise fatal shots. Many accounts have it that he breached the siege but returned to try and rescue his mates, which was when he was ultimately taken.
Doyle was keen on saving lives, knew very well the value of iconography and symbolism (as seemingly, and demonstrably given the establishment of the Kelly saga in Australia), and used it to further his own cause. It would not be the first or last time that the Kelly saga was used thus.
(Thanks for inspiring me to revisit this Alan, it reminded me that I really ought to aquire a copy of Doyle's correspondence related to ths matter, which has become available since the originals were rediscovered recently. )
"Free Ride"
Pamana Transport 1553
Company/Owner: Pamana Transport Services, Inc.
Route: Baclaran-Malanday via Ayala
(Rationalized: EDSA Carousel (MMCC))
Area of Service: Metro Manila (NCR)
Type of Service: PUB City Operation Bus
Classification: Airconditioned Bus
Coachbuilder: (Xiamen) Golden Dragon Bus Automotive Ind.
Model: XML6125J28C
Chassis: LL3AH
Engine: YC6G270-40
Transmission: M/T
Speed: 6 Forward, 1 Reverse
Suspension Type: Leafspring
Seat Configuration: 2x3
Maximum Capacity: 52+1+standees
Shot Location: Manila North Road, Brgy. Potrero, Malabon City
Date Taken: May 11, 2021
*gesso covered cardboard silhouette cutout standees, acrylics mixed with sand applied with scrubbing brush.
These paintings are part of my new series of tableaus set in "living rooms". a term used to describe artists studios where artists actually "lived" unlike those of to-day where artists just go to paint.
*un amigo a quien lo encontraron boracho y desnudo en el parque Abraham Lincoln en 1982,
/nude and drunk in Lincoln Park; I was told/ youtu.be/qroThQy8wtQ as per Bernard Lavilliers who so well understands what it is to be "ni de aqui, ni de alla"
Funko POP Harry Potter Dementor - NYC - Ghosts spook spooky forty second St New York City 2016 Logo Halloween film supernatural spectral Boo marketing advertising standee ADs commercial
Whilst I was waiting for T199 only to find it's not on countdown and the 197 after that to be DW96, I accepted fate and whilst I was waiting, decided to take a picture of this as it had an advert.
Euro 6 series hybrid
Siemens electric
ZF driveline
Wright New Routemaster 11.3m
Chassis number: Wt NBFL SA9DDRXXX15141673
Body number: Wt AL772
H40/22T + 18 standees
Weighs 12360kg
New January 2016 for the 68 and will transfer along with the route to Abellio London from Walworth (WL).
2022 Shark Week Painted Billboard film Movie Poster Standee Billboard 23rd Street and Park Avenue - New York City Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten - Giant shark movie that has bounced around studios for two decades - the megalodon monster shark scary - horror terror Halloween fright creature shadow JAWS like similar NYC 07/09/2022 ocean sea adventure teeth tooth fang fangs bite biting bites
Here we see Camberwell (Q)'s latest transfer, from Sutton (A) is E58 pictured and it's sister E60.
I happened to catch this while walking....
As of 22 November 2018, this bus has been part of a fire at Orpington (MB) involving 10 other buses.
Euro 4 diesel
ZF Ecomat 5HP502? 5-speed (gearbox)
Cummins ISBe6.7 250hp (engine)
ADL Trident 10.1m (chassis)
ADL Enviro400 (body, integral)
Chassis number: AD Tt SFD15MBRA7GXB4216
Body number: AD 7400/3
Layout: H41/23D + 23 standees
Weighs 11710kg
New June 2007 to Sutton (A) for 213's contract renewal as part of E58-60. Later swapped with ex-12 B9TLs by 213's next contract renewal. This bus later entered service in Orpington (MB) to replace some Scanias.
Rowan Telmac seating
Click here to see my 23105 on 227 clip
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Again, whilst I was waiting for PVL365 to physically turn up at this stop, I was bored and took some more photos.
Euro 5 diesel
ZF EcoLife 6AP1200B 6-speed
Volvo D9B 260hp
Volvo B9TL 10.4m
Wright Eclipse Gemini 2
Chassis number: Vo B9TL YV3S4N329AA137460
Body number: Wt AD814
H39/23D + 26 standees
Weighs ~12240kg
New December 2009 for route 63/N63, once 63/N63 were retained with new B5LH Evoseti's, all the B9TLs were displaced to both 132 and 180, WVL313-331/3 for 180.