[TR] Really quite OT, but not completely

Don Hiscock don.hiscock at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 18:08:35 MDT 2012


Read "destruction of the book". Fat finger error on iPhone...

On Thursday, June 21, 2012, Don Hiscock wrote:

> Scanning an image from inside a book, even in several pieces and stitching
> them together, isn't that hard with modern image editing software. It won't
> require sestruxtion of rhe book  The issue will be copyright and getting
> permission to make copies for others.
>
> Don
> 1962 TR3B TSF202L
>
> On Thursday, June 21, 2012, wrote:
>
>> Hello Listers..
>>
>> I have a book with a TR3A in it. Herein ends the on-topic part.
>>
>> This book, though, consists of some fabulous artwork of many cars, all
>> colour-painted with "holes" in bodywork so that you can see their
>> technical
>> innards. Their must be a word or term for this type of illustrating, but I
>> don't  know what it is. One of the cars illustrated is a TR3A and it is
>> such a
>> superb  and, I think, unique illustration that I would really like to
>> somehow get some  duplicates of the illustration. So, I'm seeking help
>> and/or
>> advice as to how I  get this.
>>
>> The book is called "Inside 100 Great Cars", edited by David Hodges, first
>> published 1988, this edition 1992, published by Marshall Cavendish Ltd.,
>> London  W1 (whom I have e-mailed--no answer). Few of the illustrations
>> have an
>> artists  name, but for those that do, I have conducted internet searches
>> that have  revealed nothing. I would especially like to get a copy of the
>> "cutout"  illustration of the TR3A; perhaps it could be available to
>> listers;
>> it's quite  incredible. My other option is to try to take the book apart
>> and
>> attempt copying  the illustration. The book will be wrecked, and the
>> illustration might be too,  especially as it's not in the middle pages
>> (that's
>> reserved for a cutout  illustration of a Jaguar XKSS).
>>
>> Does anyone have any comments on where I should turn, how I can make
>> copies, etc. etc. Anything, really.
>>
>> Sorry for such a weird question.
>>
>> Tim
>>
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