Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

I wonder if one of the "benefits" of autonomous cars will be loading themselves up at optimal spacing on the cargo decks of those Autocarriers. They would also have to have a module of autostrapping themselves to the decks.

Another interesting fact is that most of these huge ships transporting goods around the world are powered by two stroke diesels!

REgards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

On the general subject of freight why is it that freight on the sea is called cargo, while on the road it's called a shipment?

[Gibbo2286]

On the general subject of freight why is it that freight on the sea is called cargo, while on the road it's called a shipment?

Are you sure?

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Fo ... RM=RESTAB

[mickthemaverick]

On the general subject of freight why is it that freight on the sea is called cargo, while on the road it's called a shipment?

Are you sure?

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Fo ... RM=RESTAB

Not in the slightest!
Wound myself up in knots trying to find out for sure. If you want to waste an hour of your life too have a look at https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/freight
Drove me nuts so I've decided to call it freight wherever it is

[Gibbo2286]

On the general subject of freight why is it that freight on the sea is called cargo, while on the road it's called a shipment?

Are you sure?

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Fo ... RM=RESTAB

Not in the slightest!
Wound myself up in knots trying to find out for sure. If you want to waste an hour of your life too have a look at https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/freight
Drove me nuts so I've decided to call it freight wherever it is

Cargo
1 Noun. Goods carried by a large vehicle
"the movement of cargo onto the vessel"

Noun. Freight
1 Goods carried by a large vehicle
2 Transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates

1 Verb. Transport commercially as cargo
2 Load with goods for transportation

[NewcastleFalcon]

Just having a bottle of Hopfather beer.

Its brewed in Stoke Lacy Herefordshire.

Which has a connection with a great British Car company as Wiki reveals for the curious.

screenshot

Regards Neil

[bobins]

^^^^^^^





Both images shamelessly taken from here:
http://grave-mistakes.blogspot.com/2015 ... uding.html

[Gibbo2286]

Quite a bit of motoring stuff in that area, the testing facility for Land Rover is, or was, at Eastnor Castle.

https://eastnorcastle.com/whats-on/

[NewcastleFalcon]

50 years of Testing celebrated in 2011 at Eastnor. Thought there might be some old film footage to`enjoy, but next to quite a boring video of that event was this little clip from the excellent British Pathe of landrovers playing musical oil drums and hillclimbing near Solihull in the 1960's...



Regards Neil

[white exec]

Love the Pathé music - from the same mob as Assignment P6 (1963) !

[NewcastleFalcon]

The river Derwent in County Durham, flows from the moors above Consett down to the Tyne by the MetroCentre.

While IKEA was satisfying some of our household needs, I did my usual and had a mooch around with the dog round the paths and cycleways for an hour or so, and came across this bridge across the Derwent.

Find me a more overengineered passage for a sewage pipe across a river in the entire world!

It has its own "bridge"

nf own work The worlds most beautiful sewage pipe

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Find me a more overengineered passage for a sewage pipe across a river in the entire world!

After a small amount of delving, internet search engines aren't quite geared up enough for finding pictures of sewage pipes over rivers, but one of the few which pops up is a very second division one over the River Irwell in the vicinity of the quaintly named Nob End.

Yes Nob End is a Site of Special Scientific Interest..., and also a site of FCF OTCL DMC interest...

For this

Giant Meccano Bridge At Nob End, Little Lever, Bolton



Nice seating too,

Regards Neil

[bobins]

^^^^^^^^^

They don't 'alf take their Meccano seriously up there
That bridge isn't quite accurate as some of the parts weren't originally available.... apparently !

[white exec]

Barcelona driver mistakes Metro for underground car park

[Hell Razor5543]

Typical Mercedes driver, implicitly trusting their Sat Nav over their own eyes!