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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Love the cover, have never uploaded to Amazon but I bet they would be happy to help. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Bill<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>NB-Almost finished with “In The Shadow Of My Father” very enjoyable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> johnbmacartney@gmx.com [mailto:johnbmacartney@gmx.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 18, 2023 8:55 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'bill beecher' <notakitcar@yahoo.com><br><b>Cc:</b> triumphs@autox.team.net<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [TR] Rover V8 engine<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>My pleasure, Bill. Glad you enjoyed it. Actually, I got the vehicle parking details wrong as I’ve just found an article I wrote some years ago which clearly shows how it really was. THREE parallel lines of cars (not ONE) working outwards from the runway centrelines, with two single lines on each runway edge. A lot more pictures as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>FWIW I’m currently occupied in compiling all these later stories into another book as a sequel to the one I published in 1998 called ‘In The Shadow of my Father’. When it’s all done, it’ll appear (hopefully) via Amazon self-publishing as a print on demand. I might also re-publish the 1998 book in the same way at the same time. Originally, I did 1,000 copies and they sold out within a month. As the printer was still in business, he ran off another 7,000 copies of which only about 10 are still left. Can’t do that now as the guy who did the original 8,000 later sold his business, retired to live in Spain and died about two months after relocating.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>So if anyone out there can tell me the ins and outs of uploading a book manuscript to Amazon I’ll be eternally grateful as that sort of cyber-tech is usually way outside my pay grade and competence!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Jonmac<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-GB> bill beecher <<a href="mailto:notakitcar@yahoo.com">notakitcar@yahoo.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 18, 2023 4:16 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:johnbmacartney@gmx.com">johnbmacartney@gmx.com</a><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:dave@ranteer.com">dave@ranteer.com</a>; <a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [TR] Rover V8 engine<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Thank you John for a great bit of S-TR history. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Bill<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>“Shoot low sheriff, she’s riding a shetland” …B.Wills<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-GB><br>On Sep 17, 2023, at 9:25 PM, <a href="mailto:johnbmacartney@gmx.com">johnbmacartney@gmx.com</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Dave Northrup wanted to know if the former WW2 airfield I mentioned in my last post was still in existence and if so, does it have any particular use?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The answer is Yes to both queries, but not as an airfield. The original WW2 hangars are still there and very much in use by various companies involved in distribution logistics. The former Royal Air Force Control Tower at the north end has long been converted into a private house. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Attached (? Hopefully) is an aerial picture of the airfield layout as it used to be. When in use as a storage park for newly built Standard and Triumph cars, all three runways (still just visible in the pic) were used for storage with cars parked in two parallel lines down the runway centres with two further single lines on each runway edge. Mostly, they were parked by model and wherever possible by colour within each model group – always assuming there was available space. This overall layout gave two free carriageways the full length of each runway for unobstructed vehicle movements in each direction. The runway intersects were obviously not used for vehicle parking.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>If you’ve ever wondered where the rust on your Triumph first started, you’re now looking at the location!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Jonmac<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><Honeybourne airfield.jpg><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>** <a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a> **<br><br>Donate: <a href="http://www.team.net/donate.html">http://www.team.net/donate.html</a><br>Archive: <a href="http://www.team.net/pipermail/triumphs">http://www.team.net/pipermail/triumphs</a> <a href="http://www.team.net/archive">http://www.team.net/archive</a><br><br>Unsubscribe/Manage: <a href="http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/notakitcar@yahoo.com">http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/triumphs/notakitcar@yahoo.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>