Austin Ulsters racing

[austin]

I have put up some rather nice photos from the LAT Photographic archive, (basically Haymarket) on my site.



These were taken from glass plate negatives!

Cracking stuff.

Now just got to work on the next 100,000 or so....

[L100NYY]

austin said:

I have put up some rather nice photos from the LAT Photographic archive, (basically Haymarket) on my site.



These were taken from glass plate negatives!

Cracking stuff.

Now just got to work on the next 100,000 or so....

Come on austin, get to work!!!!

[austin]

L100NYY said:

austin said:

I have put up some rather nice photos from the LAT Photographic archive, (basically Haymarket) on my site.



These were taken from glass plate negatives!

Cracking stuff.

Now just got to work on the next 100,000 or so....

Come on austin, get to work!!!!

Sadly it's a personal project...

I have nothing to do with the archive apart from spending many a lunchtime in there.

Hopefully something will be done with them all at one point.

[tr3a]

austin said:

I have put up some rather nice photos from the LAT Photographic archive, (basically Haymarket) on my site.



These were taken from glass plate negatives!

Cracking stuff.

Now just got to work on the next 100,000 or so....

Cracking stuff indeed - wonderful.

Just out of interest, what's the (what seems like a) bit of bent rod sticking out in front of the radiator of this Seven?

[austin]

tr3a said:

Just out of interest, what's the (what seems like a) bit of bent rod sticking out in front of the radiator of this Seven?

My guess is that it some kind of overflow in case it overheats, (which they tend to do - there is no fan!). The last thing you want is a load of boiling water in your face to go along with the sand.

[pookie T5]

Looks like a starting handle to me.

Pookie

[tvrgaas]

Nice
The VSCC Newsletter front cover is often a picture from LAT.

This month is a leaping Mercedes at Donington in 1938.
(It's the SeeRed meeting next weekend.)

[williamp]

pookie T5 said:

Looks like a starting handle to me.

Pookie

yes, starting handle at the bottom (in front of the numberplate), and probably an overflow pipe at the top

[austin]

Righty ho, for those who are interested there is a shed load more stuff up there now, (been a busy boy.)

They do concentrate on the Austin TT cars, basically the works "Ulsters", of which very few were made and went like buggery - for a 75 year old 750cc car...

Supercharged fairly heavily, very light (aluminium body), 90mph on the flat and usually painted bright orange.

Pictures of Austin Ulsters racing

Feel free to leave comments, there or here.

[L100NYY]

austin,

all I can say is that you have made my day! You are a gentleman of the highest order.

[austin]

L100NYY said:

austin,

all I can say is that you have made my day! You are a gentleman of the highest order.

Why thank you.

There is a load more stuff to come as well. I'll try to remember to post up here when I put stuff up.

[L100NYY]

austin said:

L100NYY said:

austin,

all I can say is that you have made my day! You are a gentleman of the highest order.

Why thank you.

There is a load more stuff to come as well. I'll try to remember to post up here when I put stuff up.

I've joined up as a member on your site and it is now saved in my favourites, in all honesty I could look at those pictures all day long. And probably will!

[Huntsman]

austin said:

Righty ho, for those who are interested there is a shed load more stuff up there now, (been a busy boy.)

They do concentrate on the Austin TT cars, basically the works "Ulsters", of which very few were made and went like buggery - for a 75 year old 750cc car...

Supercharged fairly heavily, very light (aluminium body), 90mph on the flat and usually painted bright orange.

Pictures of Austin Ulsters racing

Feel free to leave comments, there or here.

Excellent stuff!

[LongQ]

Superb work.

As a matter of interest have you tried scanning the plates directly rather than printing first?

Just curious to know if that could work.

[RetroWheels]

Splendid stuff there, i particularly relish the pictures of the Austin team cars sat on stick thin "slicks" in the rain .

[austin]

LongQ said:

Superb work.

As a matter of interest have you tried scanning the plates directly rather than printing first?

Just curious to know if that could work.

All the recent scans are taken straight from the glass plates, they aren't as good as they would be from prints, but I think they are good enough. Probably more important to get the images into the public domain.

[LongQ]

austin said:

LongQ said:

Superb work.

As a matter of interest have you tried scanning the plates directly rather than printing first?

Just curious to know if that could work.

All the recent scans are taken straight from the glass plates, they aren't as good as they would be from prints, but I think they are good enough. Probably more important to get the images into the public domain.

Agreed about the public domain comment.

How would the Plate to Print to Scan workflow be better than direct scan? Do you have something that can help to 'repair' the image when printing that will not work with direct scanning?

Also, though I may have missed something obvious, I can't seem to spot from the posts which are the recent images you mention. No dates and times visible as far as I can see. Have I missed something? Would love to know so I can see the differences.


Grant

[austin]

LongQ said:

austin said:

LongQ said:

Superb work.

As a matter of interest have you tried scanning the plates directly rather than printing first?

Just curious to know if that could work.

All the recent scans are taken straight from the glass plates, they aren't as good as they would be from prints, but I think they are good enough. Probably more important to get the images into the public domain.

Agreed about the public domain comment.

How would the Plate to Print to Scan workflow be better than direct scan? Do you have something that can help to 'repair' the image when printing that will not work with direct scanning?

Also, though I may have missed something obvious, I can't seem to spot from the posts which are the recent images you mention. No dates and times visible as far as I can see. Have I missed something? Would love to know so I can see the differences.


Grant

It's not the workflow that is better but the quality of the scan. The image in thread above is scanned from a 10 x 8 hand print, (as is everything after page 3 on my site.) All the more recent ones are scanned straight from plate. I don't think they have the same quality, (even after a fair bit of photoshop work.)

This is of course fairly irrelevant once they get massively compressed and jpegged for web use...

[LongQ]

austin said:

It's not the workflow that is better but the quality of the scan. The image in thread above is scanned from a 10 x 8 hand print, (as is everything after page 3 on my site.) All the more recent ones are scanned straight from plate. I don't think they have the same quality, (even after a fair bit of photoshop work.)

This is of course fairly irrelevant once they get massively compressed and jpegged for web use...

Austin,

Thanks very much for that input.

Certainly there are differences between the images as you point out, though some of the recent scans look very good to me. Did the earlyier prints also come from quite badly 'discoloured' original plates?

Out of interest can you tell us which scanner(s) you are using to get the qaulity - both print and direct from plate.

Sorry to be a pain but the cars, the photos and the process are particularly interesting to me.

I also agree about shame of having to crush the results for jpeg presentation - but then better that than no presentation at all!


Grant

[austin]

LongQ said:

austin said:

It's not the workflow that is better but the quality of the scan. The image in thread above is scanned from a 10 x 8 hand print, (as is everything after page 3 on my site.) All the more recent ones are scanned straight from plate. I don't think they have the same quality, (even after a fair bit of photoshop work.)

This is of course fairly irrelevant once they get massively compressed and jpegged for web use...

Austin,

Thanks very much for that input.

Certainly there are differences between the images as you point out, though some of the recent scans look very good to me. Did the earlyier prints also come from quite badly 'discoloured' original plates?

Out of interest can you tell us which scanner(s) you are using to get the qaulity - both print and direct from plate.

Sorry to be a pain but the cars, the photos and the process are particularly interesting to me.

I also agree about shame of having to crush the results for jpeg presentation - but then better that than no presentation at all!


Grant

It's an old Epson 1200 Perfection with a lightbox on top, ie a very cheap home scanner.

The earlier prints came from the same glass plates, but as they are B&W prints they have lost the colour. I left the discolouration in purely because I liked it.