The following are translations of the captions in the newspaper version of Delta, in order of appearance.Front pageStrong blondTjalling van den Bos, once the strongest man in the Netherlands, is still capable of pulling a truck by himself.
Last Thursday he added lustre to the offical opening of the 22nd Lustre of the Technological Company, the student union of Chemical Engineering. Van den Bos raced other union members and challengers in a game of truck pulling.
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Come on, quit!
These two enormous cigarettes were inflated on the first floor of Civil Engineering, last Monday. The convenience bureau FM&TLO organised the action to bring the new smoking policy to the attention of students and employees. For some time now, smoking is taboo in public areas. It’s only allowed in studies when nobody objects. For incurable smokers, a special smoking room will be installed soon in the canteen on the sixth floor.
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Fire safety
Together with Delfts’ fire brigade, the housing corporation Duwo started a large fire-safety campaign in one of their student housing buildings. The building, in the Bagijnhof, was first on their list.
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Testing Centre
The Testing Centre of the Ministry of Waterways and Public Works on the Kluyverweg was officially opened last Thursday by, Minister Netelenbos, of Transport and Public Works. The opening also marked the beginning of a two-day symposium.Part of this symposium was a Market of Knowledge, where various traffic and transport organisations presented themselves. One of them was research school Trail.
Photoseries ‘Under construction’
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Freelance mechanic Kees Saas (40, on the left) and principal mechanic Piet Nouwen (50) have come all the way from Weert, near Eindhoven, to work for their awning company ‘Delta Nederland’. They’re busy assembling the sun blinds on the sixth floor of Civil Engineering. This floor has recently been renovated. By accident, the demolition contractors broke the storage bin in which the sun blinds hang. Afraid of heights? “You shouldn’t be, in this trade.”
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Anton Verdijk (27) from Vlaardingen has mixed feelings while demolishing the beautiful old cupboard in an old study at Mechanical Engineering, of which only the remains are left to be seen now. Actually Verdijk is a shipbuilder by profession but he works as a demolition contractor because things aren’t going well in that line of business.
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Crane operator Jan Hensen (60), from Rijswijk, stands on the remains of the central workshop of Mechanical Engineering. With his crane he’s pulling iron out of concrete. Afterwards, the concrete will be broken up into small pieces in a machine which can’t withstand iron. The rubble shall be used as base for new motorways.
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Armed with an automatic pistol to shoot nails, Percy Versteegh (21) is busy on the first floor of Civil Engineering. The carpenter is working on the new housing of student union Praktische Studie. On the same floor, the first public ladies urinal is installed.
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Living on yourself (6)
Jolijn Schoofs lives in the Zuiderstraat. The decoration of the toilet has been specially seen to. After a real Delfts Blue plate and a sample pot found their destination in the smallest room of the house, Schoof and her roommates decided to decorate the whole toilet in this fashion. They collected a pile of fake-blue trash at fleamarkets and even a few old Frisian skates were hung from the walls. They even discovered Delfts Blue adhesive plastic with the dimensions of bathroom tiles. The pride of the collection is a tile of the Dutch bathroom equipment manufacturer, Sphinx, which says (in old Dutch referring to old toilets): “When the humane is beneath you, still you’ll be sitting on a shelf with a hole within.”
The following are translations of the captions in the newspaper version of Delta, in order of appearance.
Front page
Strong blond
Tjalling van den Bos, once the strongest man in the Netherlands, is still capable of pulling a truck by himself. Last Thursday he added lustre to the offical opening of the 22nd Lustre of the Technological Company, the student union of Chemical Engineering. Van den Bos raced other union members and challengers in a game of truck pulling.
Page 3
Come on, quit!
These two enormous cigarettes were inflated on the first floor of Civil Engineering, last Monday. The convenience bureau FM&TLO organised the action to bring the new smoking policy to the attention of students and employees. For some time now, smoking is taboo in public areas. It’s only allowed in studies when nobody objects. For incurable smokers, a special smoking room will be installed soon in the canteen on the sixth floor.
Page 5
Fire safety
Together with Delfts’ fire brigade, the housing corporation Duwo started a large fire-safety campaign in one of their student housing buildings. The building, in the Bagijnhof, was first on their list.
Page 7
Testing Centre
The Testing Centre of the Ministry of Waterways and Public Works on the Kluyverweg was officially opened last Thursday by, Minister Netelenbos, of Transport and Public Works. The opening also marked the beginning of a two-day symposium.Part of this symposium was a Market of Knowledge, where various traffic and transport organisations presented themselves. One of them was research school Trail.
Photoseries ‘Under construction’
Page 14
Freelance mechanic Kees Saas (40, on the left) and principal mechanic Piet Nouwen (50) have come all the way from Weert, near Eindhoven, to work for their awning company ‘Delta Nederland’. They’re busy assembling the sun blinds on the sixth floor of Civil Engineering. This floor has recently been renovated. By accident, the demolition contractors broke the storage bin in which the sun blinds hang. Afraid of heights? “You shouldn’t be, in this trade.”
Page 16
Anton Verdijk (27) from Vlaardingen has mixed feelings while demolishing the beautiful old cupboard in an old study at Mechanical Engineering, of which only the remains are left to be seen now. Actually Verdijk is a shipbuilder by profession but he works as a demolition contractor because things aren’t going well in that line of business.
Page 18
Crane operator Jan Hensen (60), from Rijswijk, stands on the remains of the central workshop of Mechanical Engineering. With his crane he’s pulling iron out of concrete. Afterwards, the concrete will be broken up into small pieces in a machine which can’t withstand iron. The rubble shall be used as base for new motorways.
Page 21
Armed with an automatic pistol to shoot nails, Percy Versteegh (21) is busy on the first floor of Civil Engineering. The carpenter is working on the new housing of student union Praktische Studie. On the same floor, the first public ladies urinal is installed.
Page 24
Living on yourself (6)
Jolijn Schoofs lives in the Zuiderstraat. The decoration of the toilet has been specially seen to. After a real Delfts Blue plate and a sample pot found their destination in the smallest room of the house, Schoof and her roommates decided to decorate the whole toilet in this fashion. They collected a pile of fake-blue trash at fleamarkets and even a few old Frisian skates were hung from the walls. They even discovered Delfts Blue adhesive plastic with the dimensions of bathroom tiles. The pride of the collection is a tile of the Dutch bathroom equipment manufacturer, Sphinx, which says (in old Dutch referring to old toilets): “When the humane is beneath you, still you’ll be sitting on a shelf with a hole within.”
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