Contributions
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General
I'm always keen to receive contributions, however apparently minor or obscure. But do please indicate clearly if these are not for publication as I work on the basis that I may publish anything sent to me unless specifically notified to the contrary.
I'm happy to receive contributions by email or hard copy. If you wish to send any contributions as hard-copy, please Contact Me and I'll email you my home address.
Photographs
Fascinating as they are, I don't really want to swamp the site with pictures of cars that add little to our overall knowledge. Yet another picture of a well-known driver ascending Nailsworth Ladder is, for example, most definitely "out" whereas a picture which may help to identify the exact location of an "undiscovered" section is most definitely "in". Read the Photographs page.
I'm also keen to help solve the four great "Who? What? When? Where?" questions for any photograph by posting it on this website. There's generally someone "out there" who knows the answer.
I prefer to receive photographs as JPEG files, and the larger-and-higher resolution the better. I'll do all the necessary processing to make them web-friendly. Alternatively a high quality photocopy, mailed to my home address, is a lot better than nothing.
Programmes, entry lists, and route cards
Unlike photographs, I'm keen to publish all printed documents, such as programmes, entry lists, and route cards. The only exception is documents covering the three major MCC trials as I have no desire to duplicate the MCC archive unless the document is of very particular interest.
I'm happy to receive printed documents either electronically, as original-size high-resolution JPEG files or "screen" quality PDF files, or as high quality photocopies mailed to my home address - see above for details. For multi-page documents it is often easier for you to send me photocopies, and let me do the scanning and re-formatting, as we then end up with a higher-quality, and smaller-size, PDF file for web publication. Anyone with access to a "full" copy of Adobe Acrobat should Contact Me for details of how to produce the best results.
Catalogues, indexes, and collections
I'm only too well aware that many people with an interest in the historic of classic trials, particularly those who've been competing for a long time, have a vast quantity of "stuff" which they've collected over the years. In some cases this is well indexed and catalogued, but the owners do not wish to release it for a variety of perfectly understandable reasons. In other cases it's all "in boxes in the attic" and even the owners have no idea what they've got.
I'm trying to encourage everyone who's in either of these situations to, at the very least, let me have a note of what information they have. I really don't mind how this comes: as an email; as a hand-written letter; as a word-processed list; even as an Excel spreadsheet or Access database. If you're happy for me to publish the list, that's marvellous. If you're happy for me to publish your contact details, that's even better. But if the list is "for my eyes only", that's fine and I'll respect your wishes. But, if I just have a note of "Who's got What" then we'll all be immeasurably better-off than we are at present.