Paris Sprague-Thomson métro train set encore

Seen on the Pont de Bir Hakeim in 1972.  About this time the movie Last Tango in Paris was filmed around this area and there are some scenes of these trains passing by (we suggest using the fast-forward for most of this movie, however). See earlier posts for more.

trolleybus art, Paris, France

 
It's not clear what the top illustration is based on, however, before ordering new trolleybuses, la Compagnie du Chemin de Fer Métropolitain (CMP), which took over the surface network in 1942, tested diverse prototypes, one of which was a Vétra of the Lyon network, with three doors.

The bottom illustration was a generic one from the 1950s for trolleybus system maps by the company stated.  Ca filoche can mean it slips (folds) away, or perhaps it enables the discovery of information.  

Brill T44 trolleybus in Vancouver, Canada, 1965

The creation of Vancouver's trolleybus system (mainly conversion of streetcar routes) occurred in the same period as that of Los Angeles, with 82 units of the Brill model T44 acquired in 1947 and 1948.  These were supplemented by 245 of the larger model T48 (and variants T48A and T48SP), acquired between 1949 and 1954.

trolleybus in Leningrad (St Petersburg), Russia, mid-1949

A photo issued at the time by the Soviet Bureau of Information.

cars at Coast Boulevard and Girard, San Diego, late 1960s

Among others: 1960 Chevrolet Corvair, 1959 Impala; 1962 Pontiac Catalina; 1967 Plymouth Valiant; 1968 Dodge Charger.


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1967 Dodge Charger plus roof ornament

Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' is popular in India

Hitler in Warsaw after the conquest of the western half of Poland in September 1939; the first military stage of his attempted realisation of the plan set out in Mein Kampf

According to this story on the Daily Beast there are over a dozen Indian publishers with editions in print which sell significant quantities.

Much of Hitler’s Indian afterlife is the legacy of Bal Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena party who died on 17 November.

Thackeray freely, openly, and often admitted his admiration for Hitler, his book, the Nazis, and their methods. In 1993, for example, he gave an interview to Time magazine. “There is nothing wrong,” he said then, “if Muslims are treated as Jews were in Nazi Germany.”

Los Angeles ACF Model T46 Brill trolleybus

The Los Angeles Transit Lines trolleybus network was inaugurated on 3 August 1947; 40 ACF-Brill model TC44 trolleybuses had been delivered in 1945 and 1946. In 1948 and 1950 two more lines were opened and additional 40 model TC44 and 30 model T-46 vehicles were acquired from ACF-Brill.

The last trolleybus routes in Los Angeles were converted to bus operation on 31 March 1963 and in 1969 all Los Angeles trolleybuses were sold to Mexico City for further service; only one model TC44 was preserved at the Orange Empire Railway Museum.

Lots more LA trolleybus pics here

stage coach near Otira, 1913

Taken during the period when the Otira tunnel was being drilled, this shows a Cobb & Co. stagecoach passing underneath a rather elementary bridge with wooden piers for the construction trains, later replaced with a more substantial steel structure.  For more, see the book On the TransAlpine Trail.

early electric locomotive in the Otira tunnel

A painting commissioned by NZR (artist unrecorded) showing one of the original electric locomotives - as later modified - emerging from the Otira tunnel.  For details and much more, see the book Railway Electrification in Australia and New Zealand.