User talk:Charles01/Archive 10

Big Hillman

Here is a rare photo of a re-labelled big 4-litre Hillman which the world saw labelled Sunbeam-Talbot and very pretty it is too in the movies (the prettiest view) on show Regards, Eddaido (talk) 12:09, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

New one on me. Very stylish. I wonder how it survived the European war. Exported to "the Antipodes", maybe? Regards Charles01 (talk) 14:50, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes. It is short of a record on DVLA. It goes to meetings wearing its real licence plate? or it travels by trailer or monster truck? Glad you like it, best wishes, Eddaido (talk) 20:35, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

File:Jowett Ten style says late 1930s.jpg

The moral is always check to see the name of the photographer. I can be persuaded if you tell me you remember a large 10 on its nose but on the appearance alone it would seem to be an Eight. On top of that all the Tens have ventilation thingummies along the vertical parts of their bonnet and this has none. Please may I leave my notes there as extra information? Best regards, glad to know you are alive and well and not lost to the world of cars. Eddaido (talk) 23:00, 10 March 2016 (UTC)

Not sure about the moral, but if I ever see it again I'll try and photograph the number on the nose. At this remove, I fear I've absolutely no recollection of why I thought it was a Jowett Ten. Alas.... Best wishes Charles01 (talk) 12:49, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Plus if you have the skills and sophisticated equipment to clarify the badge...[1].... alas for me, I don't

Me too or do I mean me neither. The distinguishing mark, I have just discovered, is on the cover of the orifice for the crankhandle as may be seen here (8) and here (10) ERW255 wears none. And of course it is one of those nasty ghost cars without a record on DVLA. I just went to re-check and DVLA's site is down for maintenance but I will get round to it. Eddaido (talk) 02:46, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I shared your experience in respect of the DVLA at least twice, as in both yesterday and when I uploaded the image a few years back. Just occasionally there is an error on their database, so that if one spells the make "wrongly" you get a match. But it's hard to figure out any obvious ways to spell "Jowett" wrongly. Hmmm. Charles01 (talk) 05:30, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Turvey

Another generous collection of high quality images. Chrysler and Ghia made many cars together including short production runs all about the same period as Jensen in UK and that big luxurious French car. Anyway as Dino Martin might have said - keep those cards and letters and images coming in! Best, Eddaido (talk) 05:26, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for noticing. The Ghia was especially challenging because (1) it's black and (2) it was SURROUNDED by people (photographing it on their telephones and otherwise). In the end I just had to sit down under a tree and grab any opportunities when the sea of other folks' bottoms cleared momentarily. Sitting down is fine, of course, but I've reached the stage in life at which one is never quite sure whether all the bits will work as directed when one wants to stand up again.

You were probably not as obsessive as I in the '60s, so don't remember when that one came out as a Corgi model with opening everything - doors, boot/trunk AND bonnet/hood. And there was a plastic corgi dog curled up on the parcel shelf inside at the back which no doubt widened the potential customer base further. But with all those unusual gaps in the body shell, they made the windscreen and other pillars really thick. I've an uneasy feeling that one of the windscreen pillars on my model may nevertheless have snapped. The alloy they used for those castings was pretty soft. Anyway, I can confirm that it's much more stylish full scale and with thin pillars, though in our own age of computer aided design and subtle delicate curves, it's a bit more "in your face" than it would have been parked at a parking mall on the right side of Los Angeles back in the 1960s, surrounded by befinned and bejewelled Detroit behemoths.

I was also pleased to get a picture of one of the reworked Jaguar XFs. They were meant to be around from last September, but they've only recently started turning up on the roads here in Europe. I don't know if the first batches all got sent to China, or if they simply took longer sorting out the final glitches than scheduled. I'd managed (gloat gloat) to finding one to photograph year a ago, but that one appeared resolutely to be taking a leaf out of the book of that actress who wanted to be alone...

On with Thursday.

Happy days Charles01 (talk) 06:14, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Know what you mean. I'd have been aged 9 and here and convinced that the V12 Lagonda was the Most beautiful car in the world and the celluloid windscreen broke and then a bully broke off a headlight. No dog on the parcel shelf but fully detailed upholstery and instrument panel. Don't recall the precise date but pretty much everything else. The national distributor has its main showroom at the end of the street here and it looks to me as if XFs might have just landed here too. Keep up that seriously impressive edit count too. Regards, Eddaido (talk) 00:10, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Just another Godless killing machine

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/nyregion/pedals-walking-bear-new-jersey.html Eddaido (talk) 02:06, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Makes ya think. Hmmmm Tks Charles01 (talk) 06:31, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

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Talbot

I am stuck in this article because I have been unable to ascertain whether Chrysler used Talbot on any of its products or was Talbot only used once the same products were being built and sold by PSA. Do you know the answer? Hope its still summery and more than just warm where you are, Eddaido (talk) 02:16, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

As far as I know (and at least as far as Europe is concerned I think I do) the "Talbot" name was resurfaced only AFTER Peugeot had acquired what as known in France as Simca and in England as Chrysler - ie the fixed and intangible assets (plant and brands) of what had been, back in the 1960s, the Simca company.

I think it stopped being summery here a few days back, though it's still quite dry. We were in north Germany at the weekend and the maize (corn) in the fields appeared to have dried before cropping, so the second half of summer (July, August in the northern hemisphere...) must have been exceptionally dry there. Got quite a good picture of a Unimog, though. Best Charles01 (talk) 07:45, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

What a superb Unimog. Did they make toy trucks to look like it or did the Army make that part of the spec :) Heavy short beast, must be able to carry something very heavy indeed while fording Siberian rivers in flood. Thank you for your comforting connoting is what spellcheck claims I meant advice re Talbot, much needed. Have a good Tuesday. Eddaido (talk) 08:16, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

Sunbeam Alpine

Please would you help me. I like this photo very much because it is of a very rare car and in many ways (to my simple mind) a good photo. But it is of course ruined by the reflection from the front bumper. I have had a bit of a go at it with Photoshop but the result does not please me, at all. Is there any small chance I might persuade you to give it a go yourself? Very impressed by your many achievements in the field of biography, know you may find it difficult to take time to tackle something as fiddly as this. Best, Eddaido (talk) 11:48, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

I'm sure I'll have fun having "a bit of go at it". But I'm not at all sure that my Gimp expertise is up to producing a satisfactory outcome. And (as so often...) hmmmmm. Best Charles01 (talk) 11:58, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

I'm afraid it was beyond me. I guess I only really mastered maybe 5% of the tools on Gimp. The ones I need for changing license plates and grassing stuff over. But this would have needed input from several of the other 95%. Then there was my inability even to think what might be suitable for an acceptable reflection for the chrome in the bumper. Alas. But I thought I should let you know of it. Charles01 (talk) 09:16, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Know the feeling. I can remove the reflection from the bumper but somehow its ghost stays and fuzzes up the area around it. I got a rough handle on photoshop elements then they changed all the menus . . . Now I have to hunt for something I understand and cannot find what once i most often used. Wasn't meant to be easy, was it. Happy weekend, Eddaido (talk) 10:52, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

Talbot-Lago

When the French of the, say, 1930s referred to a Coach and to a Berline I gather they were both what the English then called saloons. Yet I wonder if that is sufficiently precise? I suspect a Coach might be in old-speak a fixed head coupé please would you explain the distinction(s).

Also I notice in the WP Tax horsepower item it says a CV differs from an RAC hp only because of the inexactness of conversion from inches to millimetres. I doubt this is correct because the difference is far too great. Do you know the difference in the formulas? In the 1930s, in the 2010s?

Your Talbot T4 Minor item implies it is a T4 and not a T13 because of uncomfortable associations. Did I comprehend right? What did the T4 stand for? 4 cylinders?

Looks like you have been on the European Mainland again last weekend looking at your latest upload. Best regards, Eddaido (talk) 11:18, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Although I didn't source-note it (mea culpa), I'm pretty sure the suggestion about avoiding calling it T13 came from Rene Bellu, acknowledged as a source elsewhere further along in the entry. "Unlucky 13" and all that. Lots of automakers were pretty casual about using a slightly different tax horsepower from the mathematically correct as computed tax horsepower in the 1930s, just as these days there's no guarantee that a Mercedes Benz 220 has an engine of 2.2 litres - whereas back in the 60s you knew that was exactly what it meant (subject to roundings). So - Back to the Talbot - why T4? I've no idea, but it did have four cylinders.

Berline is indeed the French and German for what the Italians call Berlina and the anglophones call a saloon or a sedan. I don't really know what they meant by coach, but it seems to be some sort of saloon with bells and whistles - more style and/or space and/or comfort? I've never investigated it systematically. It's a phrase from the 30s and these days, alas, there aren't a lot of car nuts around who know in their bones what French car body terms from the 1930s mean. But I'll try and remember to keep an eye open in case a more authoritative explanation turns up. I couldn't find anything in French wikipedia. German wikipedia says:

Der Coach ist ein geschlossenes Auto mit einem festen Dach, zwei Türen und vier bis fünf vollwertigen Sitzen in zwei Reihen. In der Regel wird das Dach von drei Paar Fahrzeugsäulen (sogenannte A-, B- und C-Säule) getragen. .... a closed-top car with a fixed roof, two doors (... interesting) and four or five full sized seats. As a rule the roof is supported by three pairs of pillars (so-called A-pillar, B-pillar, C-pillar)

It's not impossible that that definition might work for French wiki too. But nor is it certain!

And yes, they still let us off this island, but for how much longer? The politicians seem determined to trash the currency, so that the scope for saving money by buying in Dutch supermarkets (yes, there are one or two slightly more destructive effects, I guess) is somewhat reduced, though for fresh fruit and veg and even halfway decent meat, the English shop prices still seem to be unbelievably higher, even with the debauched currency. Political direction of travel not good, though. At least in the 1920s/30s it was the Italians and then the Germans and Russians leading the charge to barbarity and war. Now it seems to be the English, who were always the good guys back when I was growing up... How times change.

Happy days Charles01 (talk) 12:03, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

You know, I think you'd do very well on one of those tv panels where they come up with instantaneous (correct) answers to arcane questions, maybe I mean questions about the arcane. Check out this Panhard which might confirm coupé but this one says coupé or coach 5 places. That seems to suggest coupé 2 (/3 bench) seats, coach if it has a back seat as well. I'm going to go with your German suggestion. Check postwar T26, T26, T23, T15, T120=12cv?. Got diverted there. Will need your help to untangle Talbot-Lago. Thanks, Eddaido (talk) 06:51, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Licensing Enquiry

Hello, I'm trying to get in contact as we'd like to use your image on a new motoring show, however I need to get proper permission from you. My email is Adrian.s@chump.tv and I can tell you more about the show and the licensing involved.

Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChumpTV (talk • contribs) 13:23, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your note, Adrian. I guess I can answer you in terms of legal stuff or in terms of courtesy. Maybe both:

Courtesy

Thank you for asking. And thank you for being sufficiently interested in an image I uploaded to wikipedia to want to use it some place else. I'm duly flattered. However, I seem to have uploaded quite a lot of pictures to wikipedia over the years. Out of interest, which is the one that interests you?

Again, purely out of interest, I would be interested if you were to tell me more about your motoring show.  ?. Have you found someone to transmit it? Where? Who?

As far as I am concerned, I used to upload pictures to wikipedia accompanied by a statement along the lines "This image is hereby released to the public domain to the full extent possible in relevant jurisdictions" which means everything and nothing, but is likely to sum up my reaction in respect of whichever picture it is that triggered your approach.

Legal stuff

In terms of copyright, use of any image I've uploaded to wikipedia is as governed by the "wiki-licence" attached to it. The more recent ones seem to have ended up under [this one]. The rubric is summarised as follows:

• You are free:

to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work

to remix – to adapt the work

• Under the following conditions:

attribution – You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

You are likely, depending on your circumstances, to have access to better legal advice on this stuff than I have. While I'm happy (as here) to tell you what it says, you should obtain your own advice on what it means.

If you think you might risk attributing "my" picture inappropriately, feel free to let me know your proposed wording and I'll let you know what I think of it. "Picture taken on [date] uploaded to Wikipedia on [date] by Wikipedia contributor Charles01" should cover it for most purposes.

Contact

If your screen is configured similarly to mine, you have a column of clickable lines down the left side of this page. If you click on the one that says "Email this user" it seems to work. But I probably spend more time looking at wikipedia than looking at my emails - too long with the same address so too much spam - and you might therefore get a quicker and / or less incoherent response by simply continuing with this "string" (if people still use that term).

Success with your project Charles01 (talk) 15:18, 13 December 2016 (UTC)