[TR] TR4 turn signal & OD switch positions

[Geo Hahn]

Anything is possible - but one car has a different ashtray, the heater
delete option and a different horn button.

G

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 6:31 AM, Michael Porter <mdporter at dfn.com> wrote:

> 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> 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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