Graffiti and his Car @ Worldwide Photo Walk 2009
Image by Jiaren Lau
I thought this was rather amusing how the car was parked just nicely so it looks like the drawing of the indian is coming out from the car.
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Beautiful Jaguar XK 4.2 Coupe in Mayfair, London, England, United Kingdom, a british tradition, the lines, the beauty captured and beautifully presented to you! Enjoy! FAVE!:)
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Jaguar Cars Ltd., better known simply as Jaguar (pronounced [ˈdʒæɡjuːər]), is a British luxury car manufacturer, headquartered in Coventry, England. It has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Indian company Tata Motors Ltd. and is operated as part of the Jaguar Land Rover business.[2]
Jaguar was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company by Sir William Lyons in 1922, originally making motorcycle sidecars before switching to passenger cars. The name was changed to Jaguar after World War II due to the unfavourable connotations of the SS initials.[3] Following several changes of ownership since the 1960s, Jaguar was listed on the London Stock Exchange and became a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Ford in 1989.[4] Jaguar also holds Royal Warrants from HM Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Charles.[5]
Jaguar cars today are designed in Jaguar Land Rover's engineering centres at the Whitley plant in Coventry and at Gaydon in Warwickshire, and are manufactured in two of Jaguar Land Rover's plants; Castle Bromwich assembly plant in Birmingham and Halewood Body & Assembly near Liverpool.
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More information please follow the links below for much more about Jaguar traditions:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_car
www.jaguar.com/gl/en/#/marketsel
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1924 Invoice for Indian Motorcycle
Image by rich701
This invoice was found with the previous photo of a man on a motorcycle with sidecar. Invoice says: "4/28/1924. Received from F. R. Wood .00 for a deposit on an Indian Motorcycle model 1920, as is, with side car. Balance due on cycle .00. Payed the balance on May 9, 1924."
The New Leader Garage, Philadelphia.
Rules Of The Road, Indian Style. (Photo is symbolical)
Image by artist in doing nothing
The SERIOUS PART:
A NOTE ON THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF TRAFFIC & HIGHWAYS, KARNAL
Road accidents are a human tragedy. It involves high human suffering and monetary cost in terms of premature deaths, injuries, loss of productivity etc.
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Every year more than 1.00 Lacs [= 100 000] fatal accidents occur on Indian roads, more than 4.00 Lacs [= 400 000] persons are injured and the economic loss due to road accidents is estimated to be over Rs. 36,000 crore [= 360,000,000,000 Rs or 5,200,000,000 Euro or 6,732,000,000 us$ ]. 40% of these accidents take place on National Highways.
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It will be pertinent to compare the number of people murdered and the people who die in accidents every year. About 20,000 people are murdered in a year in India. It is evident that the number of people killed in accidents is five times more than that those are murdered.
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Traffic Police Posts and the post of Superintendent of Police, Haryana Highway Patrol for Road Safety has been re-designated as Assistant Inspector General of Police, Traffic & Highways, Karnal, under the control of Police Department.
***[Remarks in square brackets are mine.]***
Read the full article on: haryanapolice.nic.in/rules_of_the_road_regulations.htm
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That means 1 dead in traffic accident every 5 minutes and 1 murdered every 25 minutes.
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The LESS SERIOUS PART:
Even more from blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/
Darwinian rules of the road.
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The best:
Disclaimer: I'll try to find out in which gloomy corner of the Internet have I stolen this excellent text ...
And voila, I found out that this article became very popular last time and you can find it on at least 50 sites. My source had the following begining : " ... When I was researching the Gurugita in Sanskrit and English, I came across this on a very scholarly Sanskrit site. I laughed my head off and asked Rajiv if I could put a copy on my site too. He say ‘Sure. Go for it’. Good Man! ... ". And alas, I couldn't find any more the source site.
But here we are:
Inevitably you should be at least some limited time in India to understand and feel the following!
Rules Of The Road, Indian Style
Traveling on Indian Roads is an almost hallucinatory potion of sound, spectacle and experience. It is frequently heart-rending, sometimes hilarious, mostly exhilarating, always unforgettable — and, when you are on the roads, extremely dangerous.
Most Indian road users observe a version of the Highway Code based on a Sanskrit text.
These 12 rules of the Indian road are published for the first time in English:
ARTICLE I:
The assumption of immortality is required of all road users.
ARTICLE II:
Indian traffic, like Indian society, is structured on a strict caste system. The following precedence must be accorded at all times. In descending order, give way to:
1-Cows,
2-elephants,
3-heavy trucks,
4-buses,
5-official cars,
6-camels,
7-light trucks,
8-buffalo,
9-jeeps,
10-ox-carts,
11-private cars,
12-motorcycles,
13-scooters,
14-auto-rickshaws,
15-pigs,
16-pedal rickshaws,
17-goats,
18-bicycles (goods-carrying),
19-handcarts,
20-bicycles (passenger-carrying),
21-dogs,
22-pedestrians.
ARTICLE III:
All wheeled vehicles shall be driven in accordance with the maxim: to slow is to falter, to brake is to fail, to stop is defeat. This is the Indian drivers’ mantra.
ARTICLE IV:
Use of horn (also known as the sonic fender or aural amulet):
Cars (IV,1,a-c):
-Short blasts (urgent) indicate supremacy, IE in clearing dogs, rickshaws and pedestrians from path.
-Long blasts (desperate) denote supplication, IE to oncoming truck: “I am going too fast to stop, so unless you slow down we shall both die”. In extreme cases this may be accompanied by flashing of headlights (frantic).
-Single blast (casual) means: “I have seen someone out of India’s 870 million whom I recognise”, “There is a bird in the road (which at this speed could go through my windscreen)” or “I have not blown my horn for several minutes.”
Trucks and buses (IV,2,a):
All horn signals have the same meaning, viz: “I have an all-up weight of approximately 12.5 tons and have no intention of stopping, even if I could.” This signal may be emphasised by the use of headlamps.
Article IV remains subject to the provision of Order of Precedence in Article II above.
ARTICLE V:
All manoeuvres, use of horn and evasive action shall be left until the last possible moment.
ARTICLE VI:
In the absence of seat belts (which there is), car occupants shall wear garlands of marigolds. These should be kept fastened at all times.
ARTICLE VII:
Rights of way:
Traffic entering a road from the left has priority. So has traffic from the right, and also traffic in the middle.
Lane discipline (VII,1):
All Indian traffic at all times and irrespective of direction of travel shall occupy the centre of the road.
ARTICLE VIII:
Roundabouts: India has no roundabouts. Apparent traffic islands in the middle of crossroads have no traffic management function. Any other impression should be ignored.
ARTICLE IX:
Overtaking is mandatory. Every moving vehicle is required to overtake every other moving vehicle, irrespective of whether it has just overtaken you.
Overtaking should only be undertaken in suitable conditions, such as in the face of oncoming traffic, on blind bends, at junctions and in the middle of villages/city centres.
No more than two inches should be allowed between your vehicle and the one you are passing — and one inch in the case of bicycles or pedestrians.
ARTICLE X:
Nirvana may be obtained through the head-on crash.
ARTICLE XI:
Reversing: no longer applicable since no vehicle in India has reverse gear.
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I don't know where did finish the Article XII but let suppose it was something like this: If you breach one or more Articles above you don't need to know any Article any more (till your reincarnation if you are a Hindu or rebirth if you are a Buddhist).
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Do visit incredible India!
OM Tat Sat OM! / ओम् तत् सत्
OM Mani Padme Hum! / ओं मणिपद्मे हूं
Be happy!
Four Wheel Drive Vehicle Making a Trip Deep Into the Doniphan County Hardwood Forest in the Extreme Northeast Corner of the State to Look for Indian Petroglyphs Mentioned in the Lewis and Clark Journals...10/1974
Image by The U.S. National Archives
Original Caption: Four Wheel Drive Vehicle Making a Trip Deep Into the Doniphan County Hardwood Forest in the Extreme Northeast Corner of the State to Look for Indian Petroglyphs Mentioned in the Lewis and Clark Journals. Also Noted on the Excursion Were Rare Ferns and Pawpaw Trees, Also Very Rare in the State 10/1974
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-14664
Photographer: Duncan, Patricia D., 1932-
Subjects:
Troy (Doniphan county, Kansas, United States) inhabited place
Environmental Protection Agency
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