28-04-2024, 10:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 28-04-2024, 11:06 AM by Tony Griffiths.)
When I look at my large - but incomplete - stack of Grey Mags I'm always astonished that so much can be written about one car. In the early days, Mike Costigan and I used to worry that we'd run out of material and would soon discover all there was to know about the Seven. How utterly wrong we were (thankfully). I understand the complete set is now being scanned and turned into PDFs. Once this is done, the PDFs can be made searchable (though this feature, once an extra, is now automatically incorporated) and so become a valuable source of easily found information. e.g. I've scanned hundreds of pages of South Bend lathe catalogues that list every version of the lathe made. To look through them for a machine with a maker's tag of, for example, CL670Y, might take several hours but, turned into a PDF the search pulls up: "Light Ten Model A Precision Bench Lathe Horizontal Motor Drive Type CL670R 4.5-foot bed, 34.125" between centres, 670 lbs weight".