fbb has watched the Christmas Lectures on TV from way back in the days of steam-driven 504 lines on the BBC. Here is a bit of a silent clip of equipment being set up for examining soap film and ultimately bubbles. Ah, those were he days when real demonstrations were shown LIVE! Remember Mr Coates? Seem here whimsically deminstrating a…
Europa Road is kicking off 2024 by boosting its service for customers looking to transit goods to and from Switzerland, a country showing significant growth in trade with the UK. In November 2023, the Department for Business and Trade reported a 40 per cent increase in trade of goods between the UK and Switzerland in the four quarters to the…
Bus operators face a lot of challenges on the clock, but they say technology shouldn’t be one of them. From the reliability of newer electric buses to employee monitoring software, drivers weighed in on the demanding job. Better schedules and working conditions are some of the changes that bus operators say would make their jobs easier. That and, maybe, less…
The Mystery Of Macau Money Chinese currency is (usually) the Yuan, but can be spoken of in terms of the Remnimbi. fbb will be happy for his readers to research the complex topic. For simplicity fbb will think of things in terms of the Yuan which is about 11p in good old Blighty dough. But if you cross the border…
Sadness And Gladness Sadness in the face of the loss of King Alfred Vehicles and others in the disastrous fire at Pentin Mewsey back in December. It is not yet known what, if anything, can bee salvaged. Serious Fire at Penton Mewsey Apart from the Leyland Olympic, four Hants & Dorset buses – three double deck and one single deck…
• Eurostar Channel services restarting on Sunday as flooding is cleared (The Guardian) • Plans for direct trains from St Pancras to Germany and Switzerland (Yahoo! News) • Elizabeth line testing ways of banishing its “ghosts in the walls” (Ian Visits) • How London Was Rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666: Video (City Beautiful) • Working from home could…
Decorative Disaster : Festive Failure? With Mts fbb’s stalwart help, but given under fierce protest (“I an never doing this again” is the annual complaint), the lavish display at fbb mansions, only rivalled by the lights at Blackpool, was hauled in place under the first floor fenestration. And it promptly started falling to bits! To save time and to…
Truck engine maker Cummins Inc. has agreed in principle to pay a $1.675 billion fine for installing devices on hundreds of thousands of engines to allow them to emit excess pollution, the largest-ever civil penalty for a Clean Air Act violation, the US Justice Department said on Friday. The Department said Cummins allegedly installed so-called “defeat devices” to bypass or disable…
But First Of All … If you are a passenger, may all your buses and trains run on time (some hope!) and if you are a manager, may Government advice and financial help be useful long term (some hope!). And How’s Your Vexillology? It is the flag of here … … and it’s not a graphic for a SciFi movie,…
As promised here are the answers to the Christmas Quiz. Comments are based on a limited number of responses sent in. Please mark your own work and tell us how you got on. The limited consensus available suggests the quiz was much harder this year. Answers are highlighted in bold. If you haven’t tried the quiz and fancy doing so…