{"id":19294,"date":"2017-11-08T21:12:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=19294"},"modified":"2020-06-03T20:05:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T19:05:40","slug":"in-pictures-new-adverts-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=19294","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: New adverts in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two trams in Manchester have recently appeared in service wearing new vinyl wrap adverts with both making their first public appearances in quick succession at the start of November. The two M5000s to carry the adverts are <strong>3004<\/strong> and <strong>3018<\/strong> with the sponsors being LBC and Call of Duty.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->First to appear was <strong>3004<\/strong> which is being sponsored by LBC \u2013 now a national radio station via digital platforms. This tram has a fairly pleasing colour scheme of shaded blue with some signwriting and as always in Manchester contains full window contravision with the ends free of adverts and still in the standard fleet livery.<\/p>\n<p>Coming up quickly on the heels of <strong>3004<\/strong> was <strong>3018<\/strong> which features an advert for the latest edition of the popular Call of Duty computer game. With images of the game theme \u2013 World War II \u2013 covering the body sides the tram is not nearly as colourful as that on <strong>3004<\/strong> and once again contravision is used extensively with the body ends devoid of all adverts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34085\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=34085\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34085\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34085\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34085\" title=\"3018-de\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3018-de-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3018-de-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3018-de-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/3018-de.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3018 stands at St Peter\u2019s Square on 6th November 2017 in its new vinyl wrap advert for the recently released PS4 game Call of Duty. (Photograph by Dave Elison)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two trams in Manchester have recently appeared in service wearing new vinyl wrap adverts with both making their first public appearances in quick succession at the start of November. The two M5000s to carry the adverts are 3004 and 3018 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=19294\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34087,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294\/revisions\/34087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}