People movers.
Humanity has taken full advantage of the Automobile concept and has developed it in many ways. The 'Chara bang has lead to the coach for touring and long distant driving, while the bus is more of a suburban beast. Enabled to stop and start at short distant stops, wither single or double deckers.
It was in the 1960' and 70's that the concept of the mini-bus was introduced into the U.K by a van conversion with seating, but it was to be the Ford Transit van that epitomised this form of travel until the Japanese entered the market with even smaller van alternatives.
Today the people carrier and SUV has attempted to replace the mini van by offering seven seats in to the realm of the family car, but the small bus seating between 12-22 remains a very viable form of moving people in the back streets of your towns and the country side.
Speed here is not an essential factor, but rather the turning circle of the size and ability to manoeuvre in small spaces.
Hiace, Suzuki, Mercedes-Benz, Dodge, Ford, Volks Wagen and many others form the mains suppliers world-wide.
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Thursday, 6 March 2014
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Landing Craft.
LVTP 1-7. (Landing Vehicle Tracked).
The United States took great advantage of developing the amphibious vehicle during the second world war (1939-45), both for the European front and the Pacific campaign. It was the DUWK or 'Duck which was mostly seen in Europe, being a road truck, that slowely waved through water.
This was slow but it did the job, in the Pacific it was the LVTP-1 tracked landing craft, that since successfull use agains the Japanese over the years has been developed into the modern -7 type.
Both the LVTP-5/7 comprise a massive ammount of troop carrying capacity. The -5, a crew of 3/4 and 34 troops, while the -7 is more flexable with a crew of 2/3 and up to 25 troops. Russia and Czechoslovakia developed their own mass types, the BTR-50 (2+20) and OT-62/64, 2+15/20+).
But i think that the U.S, has had the better over all in this field, as proved with the two Iraqi wars.
The United States took great advantage of developing the amphibious vehicle during the second world war (1939-45), both for the European front and the Pacific campaign. It was the DUWK or 'Duck which was mostly seen in Europe, being a road truck, that slowely waved through water.
This was slow but it did the job, in the Pacific it was the LVTP-1 tracked landing craft, that since successfull use agains the Japanese over the years has been developed into the modern -7 type.
Both the LVTP-5/7 comprise a massive ammount of troop carrying capacity. The -5, a crew of 3/4 and 34 troops, while the -7 is more flexable with a crew of 2/3 and up to 25 troops. Russia and Czechoslovakia developed their own mass types, the BTR-50 (2+20) and OT-62/64, 2+15/20+).
But i think that the U.S, has had the better over all in this field, as proved with the two Iraqi wars.
Friday, 6 January 2012
Irelands Railways.
New Railway stock.
Has the modernization of the railway network and rolling stock, north and south in Ireland taken away the charm, that it once had?
Or has the newness of it all improved everything, speed, cleanness and comfort?
Ireland has that unique limited gauge of track found on the massive railway networks of Brazil, India and Australia
The Coras Impoar Eireann colour scheme of orange, black and white, latterly yellow on those predominantly American 121/141/181/071/111 and the Canadian 201 stock locomotives had seemed to mark out a difference.
Perhaps I'm getting old and have to many reminiscences that cover the sleekness and modern look of the new?
Am I right or am I wrong?
Has the modernization of the railway network and rolling stock, north and south in Ireland taken away the charm, that it once had?
Or has the newness of it all improved everything, speed, cleanness and comfort?
Ireland has that unique limited gauge of track found on the massive railway networks of Brazil, India and Australia
The Coras Impoar Eireann colour scheme of orange, black and white, latterly yellow on those predominantly American 121/141/181/071/111 and the Canadian 201 stock locomotives had seemed to mark out a difference.
Perhaps I'm getting old and have to many reminiscences that cover the sleekness and modern look of the new?
Am I right or am I wrong?
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