30-09-2017, 11:15 PM
HI have just had a reply via email from Bob Olive to which he says.
I don't know how many of you have been seduced by this publication (advertised as a Collectors' Edition of 150 - which is actually 300!), which Ray showed us in the current edition of the PC monthly mag last club night.
I received mine yesterday, and have to say that imho it is not really very good at all, very disappointing.There are many inaccuracies, sweeping generalisations and some glaring omissions... Again in my opinion... for what worth.
Even the double page spread called the Spotter's Guide to Seven Variants is just a random scattered selection of different models with no pattern of chronological order or preference to the layout (strangely, with over 300 variants known there are two depictions of the Opal, but no mention of the Pearl at all... funny that.)
Examples: 'most Sevens today have Phoenix cranks...' really?
On a Tech Specs table, there is no mention of Sevens between 1932 and 1936... and on the 'poster which comes with the mag (it is only a mag) it states that there are circa 7,000 survivors, and that the total, that is, worldwide, production was 416,000. I would certainly query these stats.
Another thing is the imbalance between models - six pages out of 84 ( there are 16 pages of ads or old posts which we all know well) on military Sevens is too much ( only two or three survive), but very little on the more important and prominent models, I.e Box and Ruby and its variants.
I could go on, but won't, and in fairness would say in mitigation that there are some excellent colour photos and articles of different restoration cases (although I think some of these maybe reprints of earlier reports in PC).
As the psychiatrist famously said in Fawlty Towers " There's enough material here for an entire conference".
There we are, rant over, but then I'm in ranting mood today.
Rating: 2 stars out of 5.
I don't know how many of you have been seduced by this publication (advertised as a Collectors' Edition of 150 - which is actually 300!), which Ray showed us in the current edition of the PC monthly mag last club night.
I received mine yesterday, and have to say that imho it is not really very good at all, very disappointing.There are many inaccuracies, sweeping generalisations and some glaring omissions... Again in my opinion... for what worth.
Even the double page spread called the Spotter's Guide to Seven Variants is just a random scattered selection of different models with no pattern of chronological order or preference to the layout (strangely, with over 300 variants known there are two depictions of the Opal, but no mention of the Pearl at all... funny that.)
Examples: 'most Sevens today have Phoenix cranks...' really?
On a Tech Specs table, there is no mention of Sevens between 1932 and 1936... and on the 'poster which comes with the mag (it is only a mag) it states that there are circa 7,000 survivors, and that the total, that is, worldwide, production was 416,000. I would certainly query these stats.
Another thing is the imbalance between models - six pages out of 84 ( there are 16 pages of ads or old posts which we all know well) on military Sevens is too much ( only two or three survive), but very little on the more important and prominent models, I.e Box and Ruby and its variants.
I could go on, but won't, and in fairness would say in mitigation that there are some excellent colour photos and articles of different restoration cases (although I think some of these maybe reprints of earlier reports in PC).
As the psychiatrist famously said in Fawlty Towers " There's enough material here for an entire conference".
There we are, rant over, but then I'm in ranting mood today.
Rating: 2 stars out of 5.
I am always interested in any information about Rosengart details or current owners.