User talk:Redsimon

Morris Isis
Dear Redsimon

Saw your three photographs of the Series II Morris Isis. I used to have one of these. If I had known this one was for sal I would definitely have bought it. Wonderful to drive - despite the sloppy right-hand gear change. If you ever see it again I would LOVE to know where!

Thanks for the memories. Keep up the good work.

Angus (Dundee)

''Thanks Angus

''The Morris Isis series II was found at Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley on April 20th 2007 - I am expecting to see it again if the event is repeated. I also have pictures of a Morris Isis Series I that I shot at Hebden Bridge last summer. On Easter Sunday 2008 I photographed the ancestor to both these Morris Isis cars, the Morris Six Series MS. RedSimon

Hillman Minx
==Hillman Minx S3 or S2==

Dear Redsimon

I've been trying to make sense of the wiki Hillman Minx article. There are a lot of pictures there including this one which you have labelled Hillman Minx Series III. I am sufficiently old to remember these cars and sufficiently nerdy to have noticed some of the facelifts when they happened. Are you sure this picture shows a Series III (rather than a Series II) Minx? I do not have a workshop manual to hand, and digging out relevant copies of Motor or Autocar from the loft would take ... a long time. So I'm not too sure of my ground. I guess my question becomes only this: what, please, is your reason for having decided this super picture is of a Series III? Thanks for any thoughts you can muster on this. Regards Charles01 (talk) 17:17, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your question.

I have looked again at my collection and confirm this to be a Series III.

Series I and II Hillman Minx had a grille that was curved at the ends and contained round side/indicator lights. The grille did not wrap around the corners of the wing.

Series III Hillman Minx had a wider grille that wrapped to the side, the Series III retained round side/indicator light, whereas the Series IIIA, IIIB and IIIC had more rectangular lights.

All Series III Hillman Minx had the letters "H I L L M A N" on the front, but only the Series III had those letters BETWEEN the grille and the bonnet, later models carried the letters on the bottom of the bonnet.

Series IIIA, IIIB and IIIC had a different grille having two wide side pieces which are joined in the middle with a small central panel, whereas the series III is a continuous panel from left to right.

The Series IIIA Hillman Minx is chromed metal, whereas the IIIB and IIIC use an identical design which is made of anodised aluminium.

I found the following web page to back up my information, but there is a better page that I have lost.

http://www.theseriesminxpages.com/the%20series%20minx%20pages_004.htm


 * Thank you.  (This tends to endorse conclusions formed from other sniffing around I've been doing since I put the question.)   Best wishes  Charles01 (talk) 12:09, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I have now re-discovered the excellent Minx site which gave me useful information and this is:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andymurkin/Hillman/Hillinfo/SeriesMinx.html

(see also my photos on Morris Oxford, Austin Cambridge and their badge-engineered derivatives)

Rootes "Audax" photos
ALL my Hillman Minx (and Singer Gazelle, Sunbeam Rapier) photos have now been put into a gallery at:

http://www.simoncars.co.uk/audax/audax.html

I would happily put them into a Gallery on Wiki - but I cannot see how to do this.

Ford Zodiac Estate
Dear Red Simon

I pasted below a message that just turned up on my talk page. I THINK it concerns one of your pictures. Or rather, one of wikipedia's pictures contributed by you. Do with it as you will and enjoy the weekend. Regards Charles01 (talk) 08:52, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Charles

Have been reading the page relating to the Ford Zodiac on here and you appear to be the main contributor.

I was wondering if you took the pictures of the red Abbott Estate that have been posted. This car belongs to a friend of mine in Sheffield and I was wondering if you had took the shots....do you have the original images...before the blur was added.

The car "Bertha" has been resprayed since those shots were took and is now in a much more sombre burgandy and really looks the part.

If you do have the shots...or know who took them could you let me know... jh@jason-juliette.co.uk as I would love to pass them on the my mate.

Thanks very much.

Jason

Dear Red Simon...Have just found this post that Charles kindly moved on for me....I'm just getting the hang of this Wiki thing now!!

As mentioned above if you have the images of the red Zodiac we would love to have a copy before the blur. My friend who owns the vehicle has recently lost his wife and she appears in those shots. I'm guessing she will be visable in the side on shot where you have have blurred the windows out.

Thanks for looking at this. Jason

May 17th 2009 - Photos have been emailed as requested

Humber SS Series III or IV
Hi, Redsimon. Someone has claimed that your Series III (File:Humber Super Snipe Series III rear.jpg) on this page is really a series IV. Can you offer any substantiation other than just a difference of opinion, pls? As an ignorant Series V chap, I have to stay out of the argument but can help others sort it out. Cheers Bjenks (talk) 12:54, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Apologies, yes this photo is indeed of the short-lived Series IV (the slightly changed rear window gives it away). I accept the correction from Series III to Series IV. Sadly there is little written history of Humber Cars available, and nobody mentions this Series IV version. I am not even sure whether the Series IV only applied to the Super Snipe or whether it was also given to the Humber Hawk. Redsimon (talk) 11:49, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Series III to Series IV
I have now corrected the Series IV (red) photographs that had been incorrectly identified as being Series III when in fact they were Series IV cars. The Series IV identification is confirmed by the opening quarterlights in the rear passenger doors.

In order to achieve this correction, because Wikipedia does NOT allow photos to be deleted, I have had to substitute the incorrect photographs with others (not necessarily correct !). In fact Wikipedia appears to have NIL photographs of Series III Super Snipes.

NEW photographs of the Series IV (red) Super Snipe have been created and uploaded to Wiki Commons and into an Image Gallery on the Super Snipe page, like below. The new photos (along with some new Series II, and Series V cars) have been created in 800 x 600 format due to theft and copyright infringememeent of my larger images.

Once again, I would appeal for a better history of these Super Snipes, Imperials and Hawks.

Redsimon (talk) 11:49, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

NowCommons: File:Morris Six Series MS front.jpg
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Austin Cambridge A55
Thank you for a great picture of the black A55 in profile. My Dad had one just like that (246 PMX) and kept it going for as long as he could.

With best regards, Steve —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.71.25.200 (talk) 20:12, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Please give the following attribution when using my pictures:

"Image created by Simon GP Geoghegan"

Thanks Redsimon (talk) 21:28, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Legal resources, stealing of content, etc.
You write on your userpage that you do not want to contribute because people have plagiarized your content, and you are upset that Wikipedia is unwilling to take any action to protect the rights of its contributors. You are correct: Wikipedia generally isn't willing to do this, but surely this is because the Wikimedia Foundation is actually not a large organization, and it does not possess the resources to do so (even if it were willing, which is unclear). In any case, Wikimedia does not own the copyrights: you do. I cannot speak for British courts but in American courts, free licenses have been upheld and violators have had to pay a fine to the copyright owners. If you chose to sue for copyright infringement, it is your choice, because it is your copyright to begin with. It would be a long process to go to court, but that is the nature of the law, sadly.

One thing contributors have done in the past is put a  VERY LARGE NOTE  on their image pages explaining copyright, and what can and should be done about it. However, it's not always enough, as the internet is frankly rampant with plagiarism and piracy.

Cheers.

Magog the Ogre (talk) 02:42, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

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