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Flying Vikings

Dec 07, 2020

This modest floatplane from 1931 was the first aircraft built by the Swedish Railroad Workshop's Airplane Department (ASJA), one of the cornerstones of today's SAAB.

Pax only

Nov 30, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has blackened many things, almost - almost! - casting its thick shadow over one of the most important transport anniversaries of 2020.

Survitec's 100th birthday

Nov 23, 2020

The global provider of survival solutions has partnered with the Museum of Godalming to curate a virtual exhibition to mark the company's centenary.

Under a wing

Nov 06, 2020

While some countries are just starting to gear towards harnessing wind energy, others are already replacing old turbines with newer models.

Everything comes to him who waits

Nov 02, 2020

A beautiful postcard of the ferry Stena Saga, from the Frederikshavn-Oslo link 'killed' by the coronavirus pandemic a while ago, reminds us of former cases of closed services and laid up ferries.

Pensioner at 111

Oct 26, 2020

Trelleborg is going to have a new monument, probably the highest in the city!

Best social distancing ever

Oct 19, 2020

Aeroplanes aren't well-suited to facilitate maintaining a proper distance in times of a pandemic. Well, at least the majority of them!

In the previous instalment of this column, we mentioned a narrow-gauge railway on one of the East Frisian Islands built in the 19th century to join a ferry harbour on the isle's south coast with a settlement located by the open sea.

Victualled trailers

Sep 21, 2020

Containers, containers, nothing but containers, enough already!

A container hospital in Kazakhstan

Sep 14, 2020

While Canadians are turning containers into leisure devices, KTZ Express has transported by rail a set of 226 box-based mobile homes for a prefabricated 280-bed-big infectious diseases hospital set up near Almaty.

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