Slippery Anne update

[Mark Atkinson]

HI MARK.
Great Work I am assuming that you have had to rely on Photos to get prospective and measurements and that is not easy.

Cheers
Colin
NZ

Hello Colin,

Mostly, yes, I am fortunate to have a quiet sizeable collection of period pictures of the car, so will often be found pouring over a blown up section of one with vernier in hand. Once I establish a calibration measurement it usually works out, but I need to watch out for distorted images.

I was very pleased when I layed my ruler on the original O/S bonnet, with Slippery Anne painted on it, to find I had the domensions for this exactly. But, what supprised me was a grass hopper painted between Anne and Slippery, I had never observed it in the period pictures. So an implicit warning about working exclusively from pictures - not everything is evident!

It also helps that they did everything in imperial chunks of whole inches, quarters, eighths etc……

Kind regards,
                  Mark.

   

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This is the N/S, but you will see somthing dividing the name, but not a grass hopper.


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Less clear, this is the surviving drivers side in period. Unlike the grass hopper, visual distortion of the image is evident.