{"id":45700,"date":"2022-07-09T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45700"},"modified":"2022-07-09T13:49:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T12:49:23","slug":"in-pictures-double-adverts-on-manchester-metrolink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45700","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Double adverts on Manchester Metrolink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More new adverts to report on, this time on Manchester Metrolink where two trams have received identical adverts for the same sponsor. The trams involved are <strong>3081<\/strong> and <strong>3092<\/strong> which are now both carrying vinyls for Starling Bank.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With Starling Bank one of the official partners of the Women\u2019s Euro 2022 football championships \u2013 of which several matches are taking place in Manchester \u2013 the identical adverts are presumably supposed to look like a football with two tone green stripes to show where the \u201cgrass\u201d has been cut! The adverts are a simple affair with the Starling Bank logo also featuring.<\/p>\n<p>For <strong>3081<\/strong> this is its second advertising livery (following on from an ad for IKEA between June and December 2019) but this is the first ever full advert that <strong>3092<\/strong> has received \u2013 the 46<sup>th<\/sup> different M5000 to have now carried an advert.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45701\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=45701\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45701\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45701\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45701\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.3081-rb-550x393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.3081-rb-550x393.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.3081-rb-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.3081-rb-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/1.3081-rb.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3081 calls at St Peter\u2019s Square with a service to Shaw &amp; Crompton in its advert.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_45702\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=45702\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45702\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45702\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45702\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.3092-rb-550x393.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.3092-rb-550x393.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.3092-rb-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.3092-rb-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2.3092-rb.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Also at St Peter\u2019s Square we see 3092 showing off its Starling Bank ad. (Both Photographs by Roland Bull, 8th July 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More new adverts to report on, this time on Manchester Metrolink where two trams have received identical adverts for the same sponsor. The trams involved are 3081 and 3092 which are now both carrying vinyls for Starling Bank.<\/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\/45700"}],"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=45700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45703,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45700\/revisions\/45703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}