'an Apple Mac laptop? No, a book is better'

1952 MAN Type MKE2 trolley bus

Mercedes Benz - ruler over space and time

It sounds like the tag line of a video game. We think this depicts a 1924 Mercedes-Benz 28/95.

1960 Chrysler Crown Imperial

Scanned from a 2-page magazine advert and the two pages don't precisely match up.

NZ road fatalities in January were 2 up on January 2013 despite super-tough stance on speeders

Figures produced by the NZTA show that traffic fatalities in January were 19 compared with 17 in January last year.  In December the Police stated that anyone exceeding the speed limit by more than 4 km/h until the end of January would get a ticket, half the usual tolerance.  So did that make a difference?  Obviously not, except, no doubt, to Government revenue.

As we have said before, a lot depends on whether or not a particular speed is safe or unsafe for the conditions, and there are plenty of situations where the legal limit can be too fast, just as there are situations where the legal limit is unnecessarily slow.

redneck engineering

More examples on this webpage

mail coach near Otira, 1890s

If it looks like the Wild West, that's pretty much how it was.  For more, see the book On the Trans-Alpine Trail

tracks and steam at Boston North Station, 1930s-1940s

This station dates from 1893. More pics of historic Boston on this webpage

1960 Skoda Octavia Combi

"I told you we should have hired a van - look what's happened to our antiques"

Official publicity photos, but not necessarily taken in Czechoslovakia.  The man in the third pic looks more like a butler/chauffeur.

Sweden high speed train stamp booklet cover, 1988

Known initially as the X2000 and now just 2000, these tilting trains were launched in 1990, originally all first class and from 1995 both first and second class. They were repainted a nondescript grey in 2005. According to wikipedia "The train's designated top speed is 210 km/h (130 mph). It reached 276 km/h (171 mph) during a trial run with double locomotive units in 1993. However, the maximum speed allowed in regular traffic is 204 km/h (127 mph) for safety reasons - the signal system (and systems like the catenary) are not built for more, and it shares the track with regular trains; also, most of the lines it uses were built in the mid to late 19th century."