[TR] TR4 turn signal & OD switch positions

[Michael Porter]

On 6/8/2018 7:03 AM, Geo Hahn wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:28 AM, Michael Porter <mdporter at dfn.com 
> <mailto:mdporter at dfn.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Having done technical publications for well more than a decade,
>     that's probably not exactly what happened.  The photo shows LHD,
>     not RHD, but, maybe the RHD negative was reversed to save time...
>
>
> I wondered about that, then saw that it is clearly a separate photo 
> for LHD - noting the orientation of the speedo & tach needles, pedal 
> and dipper positions and even a different ashtray.
>
All of which can be done by paste-up on a reversed negative.  You'd be 
surprised what happens when there's little time available, and paste-up 
would have been the standard process at that time--that's how the arrows 
are put into the photo, for example.

I'm not saying that's exactly how it happened.  The original is of low 
enough quality to make analysis impossible. But, I've done enough of it 
to know that when time is short, the people in pubs don't go down to the 
showroom, take new photos, have them developed and printed and then do 
new paste-up for offset printing.  They grab what they have and massage 
the hell out of it--and that's usually where mistakes creep in.  For 
example, by the two newbies who were very proud of reversing a 
right-side three-quarter view of a bus for some advertising literature 
because they thought it fit better with the text... until someone 
pointed out that the entrance and exit doors opened to the street, not 
the curb, and that we weren't trying to sell buses to Great Britain.... :)


Cheers.


-- 


Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance....

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