Site Bulletin of 2004 and click here for what was new for 2005
Apart from my redesign of the website that hit the decks on April 1st (an auspicious occasion for it) we had a few excellent new additions in 2004. But firstly, having added a site counter and statistics to the site I'm pleased to say that the site had over 4,000 hits since April.
And as the site uses frames the counter is related to the banner frame that occurs only once during a visitor's session and therefore the counter definitely only counts session hits and not page hits; also web-link pass-throughs are not counted. My initial personal test visits count for a few hits but the system was soon modified to not count me. And whilst many of these will have been returnees who may have cleared their cache, I'm both amazed and pleased to have had so many visitors.
I thank you all for visiting. Please tell your friends and keep coming back!
Early in the year Patricia Larbalestier, who now lives in Vancouver, sent me a great photo of a bus that had lost its roof under a bridge after taking a wrong turning.
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Andy Knott kindly sent me a photograph of a Park Royal Railbus on the Hitchin to Bedford service circa 1960. This prompted a short article of this lesser known aspect of Park Royal.
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Bill Munro (a writer and an historian) kindly sent me details of what was destined to become the first purpose built London taxi with a diesel engine. This vehicle's coachwork was designed by my father.
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And Basil Hancock provided me his fascinating article on the Routemaster designs that were never built.
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And NEW NEW NEW for January 05 is an article by David Lang on Halifax Bomber production at Park Royal's aircraft factory that was purpose built for outer wing (and other parts) assembly during WW2.
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What more about PRV will we see in 2005? Well if you have any ideas please let me know.