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The stylish pre-war 'Sunray' heating stove (above) made by Grangemouth Iron Co. Ltd. as shown in a 1936 catalogue from Brooks, Phillips & Co. Ltd. of Paddington Green, London. Below, for comparison, the dull and unlovely post-war version illustrated in B. Finch & Co. Ltd.'s Catalogue of Stoves and Ranges 1951.

SunRays_1b@061 by (C) HAN "the Coffee Man"

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Just another telecom tower under sunrays.

Sunrays by Sebastiano Gulisano

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dal traghetto fra Villa S. Giovanni e Messina

sunrays by monica_marisha

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sunrays by Need A Haircut

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sunrays by next_in_line

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Sunrays by Chris

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Taken with Olympus XA on Portra160 film

sunrays and flowers by Linda . A

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Jump Rope for Heart by Pasco County Schools

Sunray Elementary School

Sunray 479s by Surrey Buses

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I went to Leatherhead in the hope of seeing all three workings on the 479. In the end, the 489's no-show meant I didn't. I got to Guildford in time to see the 1630 and 1730 departures, and should have seen the 1750 arrival.

Usually, the 1750 does turn up, as there's a handful of people on it, but unless it broke down, it didn't bother yesterday. Perhaps the dire weather had put passengers off.

I'm assuming it went home early.

Since the last time I saw the 479s, the Southern Transit deckers have gone back home (two survied the ordeal, two came off less well).

There's now more Volvo B10Ms on loan from Edward Thomas to cover the route. For some reason I can't fathom, Edward Thomas cover over the destination boxes on most of their vehicles. This is despite the fact they do operate quite a lot of publicly registered school routes, which should show full details.

Anyway - the end result is that the 479 is currently using 100% paper blinds, and normal manual blinds have been wiped from existence in Guildford.

Here we see R905 XFC standing in Commercial Road between trips. This is ex-Stagecoach Hants & Surrey, so it very familiar with Guildford. This would be well demonstrated with a photo of it in Guildford with Stagecoach - but it would seem I haven't uploaded any of the photos of that! I'll have to in due course!

Commercial Road, Guildford, Surrey.

SUNRAYS BUS by MARDAGS

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