15-02-2020, 11:16 AM
Steve,
are you a member of an Austin Seven Club and, if so, which one please?
The drawings in the link were scanned back in 2003 (under the steerage of Hayden Morgan, A7CA Sec. at that time), following some push to digitise the archive material held by the A7CA - the first efforts were done on my old scanner whilst away with a group of 11 year olds on a school trip (the evenings were long as they rarely slept before 3am, I had planty of time)! My test piece (see here: http://archive.a7ca.org/wp-content/uploa...ook1-5.pdf) was one of Stanley Edge's notebooks - I also scanned a number of brochures - these were copied to DVD and a copy was given to each member Club.
The result was rather underwhelming in so far as the idea died a death. That was until the Archive room suffered a flood in 2015 and some material was damaged - this potential disaster acted as smelling salts and, after some (spirited?) lobbying (see here: http://pub25.bravenet.com/forum/static/s...=show&cp=1) a small group headed up by Hugh Barnes and Nick Turley was formed. This team began work on digitising in earnest whilst Chris Charles built a website to house it all (see here:http://archive.a7ca.org/).
Many have contributed since and the Archive is now truly accessible to all.
are you a member of an Austin Seven Club and, if so, which one please?
The drawings in the link were scanned back in 2003 (under the steerage of Hayden Morgan, A7CA Sec. at that time), following some push to digitise the archive material held by the A7CA - the first efforts were done on my old scanner whilst away with a group of 11 year olds on a school trip (the evenings were long as they rarely slept before 3am, I had planty of time)! My test piece (see here: http://archive.a7ca.org/wp-content/uploa...ook1-5.pdf) was one of Stanley Edge's notebooks - I also scanned a number of brochures - these were copied to DVD and a copy was given to each member Club.
The result was rather underwhelming in so far as the idea died a death. That was until the Archive room suffered a flood in 2015 and some material was damaged - this potential disaster acted as smelling salts and, after some (spirited?) lobbying (see here: http://pub25.bravenet.com/forum/static/s...=show&cp=1) a small group headed up by Hugh Barnes and Nick Turley was formed. This team began work on digitising in earnest whilst Chris Charles built a website to house it all (see here:http://archive.a7ca.org/).
Many have contributed since and the Archive is now truly accessible to all.