Queen’s Daimler for sale

You may be one of them who has already decided to get rid of the present automobile and go in for a brand new one. But without buying a new car don’t you like to be the owner of limousine which had been owned and driven by the Queen of England.

If you are interested now is the chance for such a royal treat! A Daimler car once owned by the Queen and featuring special modifications including a handbag holder is to come up for auction.

Driven by the Queen, the Daimler Super V8 LWB limousine was in royal ownership from 2001 to 2004.

Being sold with its original documentation and with photographs of the Queen driving it, the four-litre engined car is being auctioned by classic car auction specialist Historics at Brooklands, at Brooklands Museum in Surrey, on August 31.

The Daimler which is likely to fetch between £25,000 and £30,000, was taken on 2,500 miles of pre-delivery journeys before the Queen took ownership.

A further 11,000 miles were clocked up before the vehicle was returned in 2004 to the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust with whom it is still registered.

The specially-requested modifications made to the car include a factory-adapted centre armrest that features a sliding holder specifically designed for the Queen's handbag. The vehicle's ashtray was crafted to house the security lighting controls, which remain fully functioning. This includes a set of blue flashing strobes occupying the front fog lamp inserts, alternate flashing headlamps and alternate flashing rear lights.

A further feature is a pair of neon blue lights by the rear view mirror, which were used to identify the vehicle in which the Queen was travelling when approaching her destination.

The car is being sold with its original tyres, with its full-service history and with its original registration number.

Hurry up folks! Its up for grabs.!

Shark’s meal was another shark

A human being taking another human as his meal!

We have heard such stories from all over the world and all those incidents may have happened most probably due to complications in their minds or maybe due to being in extreme state of hunger. But a shark taking another shark as its meal is a normal happening but very rarely seen. Daniela Ceccarelli and David Willimson from the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies while conducting a fish census on the fringing reef off Great Keppel Island, were lucky to capture on camera how a shark was taking another shark as its meal. The pictures show a tasseled wobbegong halfway through swallowing a brown-banded bamboo shark.

“The first thing that caught my eye was the almost translucent white of the bamboo shark,” Ceccarelli said. Expecting to find the front part of the bamboo shark hidden under a coral ledge, Ceccarelli swam closer - and the highly camouflaged wobbegong materialised. “It became clear that the head of the bamboo shark was hidden in its mouth,” she said. “The bamboo shark was motionless and definitely dead.” Previous analyses of the shark species’ stomach contents had shown that wobbegongs do eat other sharks. “I doubt that this is the first time such a thing has been seen,” said Ceccarelli, who added that she does think this is the first published photograph of a wobbegong swallowing another shark.