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Seen heading south on the M1 motorway at Milton Keynes is a Van Hool TX series coach of Winns Coaches of Northallerton in Leger Holidays Silver Service colours.

I have assumed these details as this registration was last photographed on a Tourliner and before that on a Bova.

w18 by wng198019

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MP Travel (W18 MPT) by Paul Transport Photography

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Volvo B12B / Van Hool Alizee

New to Highway as (CC06 NBC)

American Shuffles The Schedule... by Ben Cavers

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With the S18 schedule now in full swing, airlines are now preparing for the upcoming W18 schedule... In this case, both American Airlines and British Airways have done changes as part of their long-standing transatlantic joint-venture.

Looking at American Airlines, the airline has announced (although will not be bookable until 14th May 2018) planned changes to flights from London Heathrow to two of their largest hubs, Dallas-Fort Worth and Miami which will commence from 28th October 2018.

Currently, American Airlines operates 2 daily flights from Miami, as well as 3 daily flights from Dallas-Fort Worth (British Airways operates one), which is expected to change for the W18 schedule.

The plans will see American Airlines go to a single daily flight from Miami, swapping the second flight over to a 4th frequency from Dallas-Fort Worth, operated by a Boeing 777-300ER. Due to the capacity decrease from Miami, British Airways will introduce a 3rd daily flight replacing the American flight that has transferred over to Dallas. In regards to which specific flights are affected have not been revealed, but British Airways has published their 3rd daily flight to Miami.

Currently, American Airlines operates 67 Boeing 777s, which includes 47 Boeing 777-200ERs and 20 Boeing 777-300ERs.

November Seven One Nine Alpha November is one of 20 Boeing 777-300ERs in service with American, delivered new to the carrier in January 2013 on lease from Avolon until September 2014 and she is powered by 2 General Electric GE90-115B engines.

Boeing 777-323/ER N719AN on final approach into Runway 27R at London Heathrow (LHR) on AA78 from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW), Texas.

H.H.W18_Li10127_V1 by heidi-art

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NYC B&W18 by Sean Gunn

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New York

Atmosphere at Brading (pjs,1100) by geoff7918

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I hinted at the weather on Peter's dull light shot at Cowes but two days later it was wet, very wet. I cannot think what Peter's wife June thought about standing here whilst Peter doggedly took his pictures.

This is W18 Ningwood arriving at Brading. I was amused to see the "Mind the Gap" legend painted at the platform edge, even if it is viewed through a deep puddle. The station was Brading Junction it was where the line from Bembridge joined, Bembridge Station closed 21/09/1953.

W18 was an Adams tank built at Nine Elms, it was new in August 1892, it was withdrawn in December 1965, it is not preserved.

Peter Shoesmith 19/06/1963

Ventnor by Kevin Lane

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A candidate for the UK's most spectacular location for a station, Ventnor was to close in April 1966. W18 brews up before leaving for Ryde around 1962.

Scanned from a 6x9cm size negative in my collection.

H.H.W18_Zü20254_V1 by heidi-art

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looking for answers

H.H.W18_Sw20286_V2 by heidi-art

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sunny

H.H.W18_Sw202098_V1 by heidi-art

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train

Faustball_WDM_w18_Waibstadt009_08112019 by Bernhard Kaiser

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H.H.W18_Ba00645_V1 by heidi-art

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heidi-art - "got it"

Bassersdorfer Fasnacht 2018

H.H.W18_Sw20326_V5 by heidi-art

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heidiARTwork - "angel for sure"

W18 by FocusFlickr transport

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W18 CYM by CBN - The Welsh Connection

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Cymru Coaches,Waunarlwydd,Swansea

Volvo B7RLE/Plaxton Centro

New to Minsterley Motors,Stiperstones as DX57 JXS

Acquired from Yellow Buses as Fleet # 801 - December 2019

Gained it's Current Registration - February 2021

1937 Mercedes-Benz W18, Cité de l'Automobile, Mulhouse, Alsace, France by Billy Wilson

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"The Mercedes-Benz W18 was a six-cylinder automobile introduced as the Mercedes-Benz Typ 290 in 1933. It was a smaller-engined successor to the manufacturer’s Typ 350 / 370 Mannheim model.[1] In terms of the German auto-business of the 1930s it occupied a market position roughly equivalent to that filled by the Mercedes-Benz E-Class in the closing decades of the twentieth century. The W18 was replaced in 1937 by the manufacturer’s W142 (Typ 320).

Several different models with names incorporating the number “290” were produced by Mercedes-Benz during the 1930s, so that for the avoidance of ambiguity the car is frequently identified using the manufacturer's Works Number as the Mercedes-Benz W18.

Cité de l'Automobile, Musée national de l’automobile, Collection Schlumpf is an automobile museum located in Mulhouse, France, and built around the Schlumpf Collection of classic automobiles. It has the largest displayed collection of automobiles and contains the largest and most comprehensive collection of Bugatti motor vehicles in the world.

Brothers Hans and Fritz Schlumpf were Swiss citizens born in Italy, but after their mother Jeanne was widowed, she moved the family to her home town of Mulhouse in Alsace, France. The two brothers, who were later described as having a "Schlumpf obsession", were devoted to their mother.

In 1935 the Schlumpf brothers founded a limited company which focused on producing spun woollen products. By 1940, at the time of the German invasion of France, 34-year-old Fritz was the chairman of a spinning mill in Malmerspach. After World War II, the two brothers devoted their time to obsessively growing their business, and became wealthy.

Mulhouse (pronounced [myluz]; Alsatian: Milhüsa or Milhüse, [mɪlˈyːzə]; German: Mülhausen; meaning mill house) is a subprefecture of the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region of Eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. With a population of 109,443 in 2017 in the commune and 285,121 inhabitants in 2016 in the urban area, it is the largest city in Haut-Rhin and second largest in Alsace after Strasbourg. Mulhouse is the principal commune of the 39 communes which make up the communauté d'agglomération of Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération (m2A, population 272,712).

Mulhouse is famous for its museums, especially the Cité de l'Automobile (also known as the Musée national de l'automobile, 'National Museum of the Automobile') and the Cité du Train (also known as Musée Français du Chemin de Fer, 'French Museum of the Railway'), respectively the largest automobile and railway museums in the world. An industrial town nicknamed "the French Manchester", Mulhouse is also the main seat of the Upper Alsace University, where the secretariat of the European Physical Society is found.

Alsace (/ælˈsæs/, also US: /ælˈseɪs, ˈælsæs/; French: [alzas]; Low Alemannic German/Alsatian: 's Elsàss [ˈɛlsɑs]; German: Elsass [ˈɛlzas]; Latin: Alsatia) is a cultural and historical region in Eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2017, it had a population of 1,889,589.

Until 1871, Alsace included the area now known as the Territoire de Belfort, which formed its southernmost part. From 1982 to 2016, Alsace was the smallest administrative région in metropolitan France, consisting of the Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin departments. Territorial reform passed by the French Parliament in 2014 resulted in the merger of the Alsace administrative region with Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine to form Grand Est. Due to protests it was decided in 2019 that Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin would form the future European Collectivity of Alsace in 2021.

Alsatian is an Alemannic dialect closely related to Swabian and Swiss German, although since World War II most Alsatians primarily speak French. Internal and international migration since 1945 has also changed the ethnolinguistic composition of Alsace. For more than 300 years, from the Thirty Years' War to World War II, the political status of Alsace was heavily contested between France and various German states in wars and diplomatic conferences. The economic and cultural capital of Alsace, as well as its largest city, is Strasbourg, which sits right on the contemporary German international border. The city is the seat of several international organisations and bodies." - info from Wikipedia.

During the summer of 2018 I went on my first ever cycling tour. On my own I cycled from Strasbourg, France to Geneva, Switzerland passing through the major cities of Switzerland. In total I cycled 1,185 km over the course of 16 days and took more than 8,000 photos.

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Catch the moment (W18/2016 - Sydney) by Antonio AST

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Sandown_W18_sthbnd by Ernies Railway Archive

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Mercedes-Benz W18 290 Saloon (1934) by Peter Blackert

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A new Mercedes-Benz series, factory coded W18, began production in 1933 and replaced the Type 350/370 Mannheim series. The fresh motor car, more commonly known as the Type 290, heralded a number of advanced engineering features, among them were hydraulic brakes, a transverse leaf-spring/coil-spring front suspension, a coil-spring floating rear axle, and a 60 horsepower, 2,867-cubic centimetre, side-valve inline six-cylinder engine. In addition to the bare chassis for custom coach builders, six factory-built body styles and a Kuebelwagen (military) variant were available. The factory designs included a four-door touring car, a four-door saloon, and four 2-door convertibles or cabriolets (A, B, C, and D) with various seating configurations.

Mercedes-Benz produced 7,495 W18 passenger cars, of which 3,566 sat on a shorter chassis, whilst 3,929 used a longer chassis. The shorter cars’ bodies, which were on 2,870-millimetre chassis, reflected the design seen on the Type 200 (W21) models of the time, but the 290 bodies were actually a bit longer. The least expensive of the offered bodies was, ironically, a six-seat light limousine, listed at 7,950 Marks. A pricier saloon with a torpedo body, which was called a Tourenwagen, offered a more elegant option. Three convertible bodies were additionally offered and designated as Cabriolet B, Cabriolet C, and Cabriolet D. These were offered in two- or four-door configurations, with two for four-passenger seating. One more convertible was offered with a much sportier look, the Cabriolet A. It had a body that sat 190 millimetres lower than the other soft-topped versions, and it was amongst the most expensive, with it priced at 13,000 Marks.

W18NNS by trevor plackett

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winns of northallerton m1

W18 WTS NEXT GENERATION SCANIA S580 V8 of RAY WHITE , 28th August 2019 by 37271 37418

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W18 WTS NEXT GENERATION SCANIA S580 V8 of RAY WHITE , 28th August 2019

Globe Changes Houston Around... by Ben Cavers

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Now currently in the middle of the W18 schedule, airlines are now in the processing of making changes to their upcoming S19 and even W19 schedules.

The major US carriers also provide some interesting aircraft changes every year and certainly no exception... United, having one of the largest international networks amongst the carriers in the USA often provides a huge number of changes across their network.

Interestingly enough, their S19 schedule features only little changes into London Heathrow... The only major change is one of 2 daily flights operating from their Houston hub. Since the W16 schedule, both daily flights have been for the majority of time operated by Boeing 777-200ERs.

From 30th March 2019, UA4/5 will see Boeing 787-9s operating instead of Boeing 777-200ERs. UA879/880 will continue to utilise Boeing 777-200ERs, although this may be subject to change.

Currently, United operates 92 Boeing 777s, which includes 19 Boeing 777-200s, 55 Boeing 777-200ERs and 18 Boeing 777-300ERs.

November Seven Seven Zero Two Two is one of 55 Boeing 777-200ERs in service with United, delivered new to Continental Air Lines on 22nd July 2010 before transferring to United following the carrier's merger on 1st October 2010 and she is powered by 2 General Electric GE90-92B engines. She has carried Star Alliance colours since new.

Boeing 777-224/ER N77022 on final approach into Runway 27R at London Heathrow (LHR) on UA5 from Houston-George Bush Intercontinental (IAH), Texas.

2023-06-02_01-03-56 by Ian Purkess

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W18 'Ningwood ' at Ryde Esplanade Isle of Wight 18th of May 1950 .

H.H.W18_Li03378_V3 by heidi-art

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H.H.W18_Ei06511_V3 by heidi-art

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WM 2018 - hope for the best

W18 RED - by Chris Cuthill

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11.07.13 - Forgot to check the legals, anyone got an idea on the current operator?