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Category Archives: Transportation
CalMac’s U-Turn
MV Pentalina, catamaran ferry Readers who are well informed about which islands are desperate for new, mechanically reliable ferries, might have noticed an announcement from the flaky company called CalMac that, after years of dismissing catamarans as useless for its … Continue reading
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The FFS Ferry Line
Professor Alfred Baird tells a woeful tale of incompetence, arrogance and worse on the high and low seas. Manichaeism is a religion which believes there is a struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world … Continue reading
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Ferries: SNP Solution Sails On
Stuart Ballantyne, a Scottish naval architect and chairman of SeaTransport Solutions THE FERRY FIASCO – A NEW CHAPTER The Ferry fiasco contunues unabated. Scottish Government ministers stand accused of ignoring proposals for a Clyde shipbuilding revolution to solve Scotland’s ferry … Continue reading
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Renaissance of the Bubble
Been months since I wrote about cars and car development, or reposted existing articles, other than tweets. For almost three years I produced a mid-week ‘Car Culture’ column in reponse to readers who didn’t want to wait to the weekend … Continue reading
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A Ferry, Scotland to Europe
SNP MP Douglas Chapman’s cheery face was presented to us on the front pages of some Unionist newspapers, most prominently The National, proclaiming the return of a continental ferry service from Rosyth to a European port “sometime in 2023”. Good … Continue reading
Posted in Scottish Politics, Transportation
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Ferries: Scotsman To the Rescue
It might come as a shock to learn that one of the world’s most successful ferry designers happens to be a Scotsman, yet his repeated offers to build and invest in ferries in Scotland have been rejected by the Scottish Government and its hapless ferry agencies CMAL and CalMac. Dr. Stuart Ballantyne, chairman of … Continue reading
Posted in Scottish Politics, Transportation
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Dr William Gordon Stables
An ocasional series on eminent Scots forgotten or largely ignored This is the tale of a travelling man who invented the caravan to make his life on the road more comfortable, a Scot, a man who without knowing it, was … Continue reading
Posted in Great Scots, Transportation
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Car Culture: Sustainability or Scrap
A weekly look at what sucks in the our car world, and some good bits Car makers are lobbying the UK government again with the insistence of a starving calf nudging a dry cow for milk. They are restarting production … Continue reading
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Car Culture: Petrol TV Shows
A weekly look at what sucks in our world of cars, plus some good bits Back in the day as a stressed out BBC executive producer going nowhere, I sat around a table with colleagues and endless cups of coffee … Continue reading
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Car Culture: Fall of the Giants
A weekly look at what sucks in our car world, plus some good bits UK car production all but stopped last month. Only 197 vehicles were produced, an unheard of figure since cars moved from horse and carriage to bespoke … Continue reading
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