Great series Yuri and great record keeping. Greetings all from Broome
3110.9 kms from Airport West. As the crow flies.
Peter Bruce
On Sun, 19 Jun 2022 at 21:14, Yuri Sos trams4me@...> wrote:
> I really should have checked my equipment this afternoon before venturing
> out after art tram B2.2012. Not to worry, a perfect near cloudless
> winter's day.
>
> As I pulled up at Coventry Street and St Kilda Road, I punched the number
> of the tram I wanted into my Tramtracker app .
> As I had a few minutes, I thought I'd add to my collection of rolling
> billboards.
> And there was an amazing cavalcade of these rolling billboards with
> all-over-advertising (AOA)
>
> First up was D1.3508 in "Tiger Trades" online US broker AOA:
> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2022/3508_coventry_a7r3_21728.jpg
> {2,400 x 1,500 pxl; 2.60MB}
>
> D1.3526 in "Longines" AOA:
> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2022/3526_coventry_a7r3_21735.jpg
> {2,400 x 1,500 pxl; 2.59MB}
>
> D1.3506 advertising "Binge" streaming network:
> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2022/3506_coventry_a7r3_21746.jpg
> {2,400 x 1,500 pxl; 2.81MB}
>
> D1.3527 colourfully advtising the extraordinary musical that is
> "Hamilton" at Her Majesty's theatre:
> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2022/3527_coventry_a7r3_21755.jpg
> {2,400 x 1,500 pxl; 2.70MB}
>
> D1.3529 with a side of "Wings" <g!>:
> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2022/3529_coventry_a7r3_21766.jpg
> {2,400 x 1,500 pxl; 2.84MB}
> The display on my camera started to flash - now what?
> Great only 20% battery..... of course I hadn't swapped batteries before I
> went out.
>
> Next up - D1.3513 in "Kathmandu" AOA:
> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2022/3513_coventry_a7r3_21767.jpg
> {2,400 x 1,500 pxl; 3.07MB}
>
> Quickly checked my phone for TramTracker - aah, finally the art tram is
> next!
>
> But what's this? Aaaargh, a typo: 2120 instead of 2012 and I have a
> plain Jane B2 clas:
> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2022/2120_coventry_a7r3_21769.jpg
> {2,400 x 1,500 pxl; 2.67MB}
>
> B@gg@r! as the Toyota ad used to say.
>
> Paul Kelly had warned me on the way here "I've done all the dumb things".
>
> Turned my camera off and started to walk back to the car, now typing in
> 2012 into TramTracker.
> Woohoo! B2,2012 was onl;y a couple of minutes behind.
> I quickly returned and snapped B2.2012 outbound (I presented this shot
> upthread but it gives me an excuse to show it again to complete the story):
>
> https://gallery.steam4me.net/albums/trams/2022-2023_art_trams/2012_coventry_a7r3_21772.jpg
> {2,400 x 1,500 pxl; 2.89MB}
>
> Well, a colurful 30 minutes or so.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Yuri.
> (beginning to really get into AOA covered trams - so much nicer and more
> varied than the dated Crystal Swamp livery)
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