Silver for Delft The following are translations of the captions in the newspaper version of Delta, in order of appearance.Front PageThe Olympic Games of 2000 were the most successful ever for the Dutch.
On Tuesday morning, thousands of fans, friends and family members waited for hours to welcome the almost two hundred Olympic sportsmen and women at Schiphol airport. Architecture student and member of the Delft rowing club Proteus, Eretes Karin ter Beek (second on the left) and Pieta van Dishoeck (far left), silver medallist with the women’s eight, are pleasantly surprised by the overwhelming receipt.
Page 3
Abbreviated caption
Art piece ‘Mural with modular wall’
With the alteration of the Mechanical Engineering building, a mural on the first floor has been brutally cut in two by a modular wall. The largest part of the work of art is located in the future office of the Head of Technical and Domestic services. The remainder still decorates the hallway.
Page 4!
Start of photoseries ‘Dreamcars’,
Continuation on pages 4, 12, 18, 22 and 23
MG
Patricia Osseweijer insisted on polishing her vintage MG BGT, dating from 1969, in advance of the photo session. Only a week ago, she put a %for sale% signs in the window, but in the end, she didn%t have the heart to sell. Now she’s looking for a covered parking space.
Page 5
Room with a view
What now, nothing to look at in the toilet? By peeping through this hole in the ladies toilet, on the second floor of the new (!) building for Industrial Design in Leeghwaterstraat 5, you get a splendid view of the building site. The construction workers were a little too enthusiastic with demolishing the Mechanical Engineering building next door, as a result of which the tiles of the ladies toilet came tumbling down.
Page 7
King Patat
Is there a Delft inhabitant who isn%t familiar with the snack car ‘King’s Patat’, opposite the Blokker, in the town centre? The boothis always parked in the parking lot behind the Zuidplantsoen. Bertus ter Heijden (72) is busy repairing the lighting, while sitting in a 22 year-old British Leyland Sherpa, which he bought twelve years ago at a scrapyard for 225 guilders.
Continuation of the photo series ‘Dreamcars’ from page 4
Page 12
Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited
“My first car was a Mini, costing 450 guilders.” The cars of this interpreter of sign language have improved in size since then. “This isn’t my first Jeep either.” Needing a litre of petrol for every six kilometres the interpreter easily covers all the merciless ‘off the road’ areas with his Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited.
Page 18
Army Volkswagen
Twenty-five years ago, this type of Volkswagen was known as vehicle number 45,351 in the Danish army. Eva Hoeks, communication employee at the faculty of ITS, drives her son to school in it. The maintenance is hard work: “The colours are ‘Blackboard Black’ and a shade of green I have to order specially,” says Hoeks. All the doors and windows can be taken out of the car. On one side is room for a shovel. When encountering head winds, the car won’t go any faster then 85 kilometres an hour.
Page 22
Suzuki
Bastiaan Burger, third-year student Civil Engineering, received this Suzuki Alto GX (0,7 litre) from his cousin, a dentist, who got it from his assistant. Because it only needs one litre of petrol for every seventeen kilometres, Burger will survive the oil crisis. “Last week I speeded a little on the Rotterdamseweg. I was stopped by the police. In the end, I was fined, because it hadn’t been through the obligated annual test yet, while I had just made an appointment with a garage to do so.”
Page 23
Land Rover
R. Boekelman is totally in his element with one of his two jeeps. Don’t be misguided by his immaculate appearance: he certainly is a fanatic. The Chief Staff and Organisation of Civil Engineering has owned the Land Rover Defender tdi for two and a half years, resulting in the odometer showing one hundred thousand kilometres. The roof rack can carry his two ‘white water% rafts.
Page 28
Living on yourself (8)
Together with tomcat Boris (about 2 years old), Maarten Haspels (27years old) is acting tough on the showpiece of the house in Delfshaven, Rotterdam. The BMW single cylinder engine motorbike dating from 1953, belongs to his roommate Marco de Groot, who’s working in Denmark at present and will probably stay there. The eight-year Architecture student hasn’t got a motorcycle license because of lack of money. And even if he had one, driving this old-timer hasn’t been possible for years.
The following are translations of the captions in the newspaper version of Delta, in order of appearance.
Front Page
The Olympic Games of 2000 were the most successful ever for the Dutch. On Tuesday morning, thousands of fans, friends and family members waited for hours to welcome the almost two hundred Olympic sportsmen and women at Schiphol airport. Architecture student and member of the Delft rowing club Proteus, Eretes Karin ter Beek (second on the left) and Pieta van Dishoeck (far left), silver medallist with the women’s eight, are pleasantly surprised by the overwhelming receipt.
Page 3
Abbreviated caption
Art piece ‘Mural with modular wall’
With the alteration of the Mechanical Engineering building, a mural on the first floor has been brutally cut in two by a modular wall. The largest part of the work of art is located in the future office of the Head of Technical and Domestic services. The remainder still decorates the hallway.
Page 4!
Start of photoseries ‘Dreamcars’,
Continuation on pages 4, 12, 18, 22 and 23
MG
Patricia Osseweijer insisted on polishing her vintage MG BGT, dating from 1969, in advance of the photo session. Only a week ago, she put a %for sale% signs in the window, but in the end, she didn%t have the heart to sell. Now she’s looking for a covered parking space.
Page 5
Room with a view
What now, nothing to look at in the toilet? By peeping through this hole in the ladies toilet, on the second floor of the new (!) building for Industrial Design in Leeghwaterstraat 5, you get a splendid view of the building site. The construction workers were a little too enthusiastic with demolishing the Mechanical Engineering building next door, as a result of which the tiles of the ladies toilet came tumbling down.
Page 7
King Patat
Is there a Delft inhabitant who isn%t familiar with the snack car ‘King’s Patat’, opposite the Blokker, in the town centre? The boothis always parked in the parking lot behind the Zuidplantsoen. Bertus ter Heijden (72) is busy repairing the lighting, while sitting in a 22 year-old British Leyland Sherpa, which he bought twelve years ago at a scrapyard for 225 guilders.
Continuation of the photo series ‘Dreamcars’ from page 4
Page 12
Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited
“My first car was a Mini, costing 450 guilders.” The cars of this interpreter of sign language have improved in size since then. “This isn’t my first Jeep either.” Needing a litre of petrol for every six kilometres the interpreter easily covers all the merciless ‘off the road’ areas with his Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited.
Page 18
Army Volkswagen
Twenty-five years ago, this type of Volkswagen was known as vehicle number 45,351 in the Danish army. Eva Hoeks, communication employee at the faculty of ITS, drives her son to school in it. The maintenance is hard work: “The colours are ‘Blackboard Black’ and a shade of green I have to order specially,” says Hoeks. All the doors and windows can be taken out of the car. On one side is room for a shovel. When encountering head winds, the car won’t go any faster then 85 kilometres an hour.
Page 22
Suzuki
Bastiaan Burger, third-year student Civil Engineering, received this Suzuki Alto GX (0,7 litre) from his cousin, a dentist, who got it from his assistant. Because it only needs one litre of petrol for every seventeen kilometres, Burger will survive the oil crisis. “Last week I speeded a little on the Rotterdamseweg. I was stopped by the police. In the end, I was fined, because it hadn’t been through the obligated annual test yet, while I had just made an appointment with a garage to do so.”
Page 23
Land Rover
R. Boekelman is totally in his element with one of his two jeeps. Don’t be misguided by his immaculate appearance: he certainly is a fanatic. The Chief Staff and Organisation of Civil Engineering has owned the Land Rover Defender tdi for two and a half years, resulting in the odometer showing one hundred thousand kilometres. The roof rack can carry his two ‘white water% rafts.
Page 28
Living on yourself (8)
Together with tomcat Boris (about 2 years old), Maarten Haspels (27years old) is acting tough on the showpiece of the house in Delfshaven, Rotterdam. The BMW single cylinder engine motorbike dating from 1953, belongs to his roommate Marco de Groot, who’s working in Denmark at present and will probably stay there. The eight-year Architecture student hasn’t got a motorcycle license because of lack of money. And even if he had one, driving this old-timer hasn’t been possible for years.
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