TVJL

24 November 2011 at 13:55 #48576

Brilliant stuff!

TVJL

12 November 2011 at 14:13 #48546

Dear Mark,

I’m very sorry to hear of your sad loss. My sincere condolences.

Thank you for taking the trouble to provide this further information about 155 – fascinating stuff. Re Edward Farr Limited, a company of that name appears to have been wound up early in 1971: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/45328/pages/2692/page.pdf. I hope this helps.

Best wishes,

Tim

TVJL

4 November 2011 at 12:25 #48535

What great news! Super history too. Thanks so much for posting the pictures. If you can possibly manage any more, please do.

Tim

TVJL

1 November 2011 at 10:43 #48529

Great stuff, Christian. Keep posting, please.

TVJL

31 October 2011 at 14:54 #48525

I appreciate that you don’t want to go down this route (patently) but I was wondering how practical fitting SUs might be as a ‘solution’. I seem to recall that Robert Edwards (in his book) made some comment to the effect that he foresaw ‘breathing’ problems with such a conversion, but I couldn’t follow the logic of the argument. Surely, twin SUs worked well on the DB4 and triple SUs on the DB5/6 are well thought of?

TVJL

17 October 2011 at 14:09 #48516

I tried to obtain the chassis numbers from the seller but had not response.

TVJL

3 September 2011 at 21:03 #48479

It may be that these are not fakes.

I think that I am right in saying (although very happy to be corrected) that two versions of badge were used on the Aston Martin Lagonda aka ‘the Wedge’ or ‘Towns’ V8 Lagonda cars. One is a ‘flat’ badge enameled in red and white with wings that are more ‘feathered’ in appearance than those of the badge in your attachment. This badge had the word ‘ASTON’ surmounting the left hand wing and ‘MARTIN’ the right hand wing.

The second type of badge looks very like those in your attachment, although impossible to tell definitively given the quality of the photograph. It, too, was enameled in red and white but was of a more simple design and without the legend(s) (as you can see).

TVJL

24 August 2011 at 10:09 #48470

@h14…

Ah, I wondered if that might be the case – all is now clear. Could you perhaps post a link to the bonnet badges, please?

Tim

TVJL

24 August 2011 at 08:26 #48468

From this picture, the item looks like a pretty faithful reproduction of a pre-war chassis plate to me, is it not? If I’m right about that, presumably Arnold will be in some difficulty in the kind of context you mention?

Also, my own personal view is that the item would not offend any intellectual property right that might be owned or enjoyed by AML (or anyone else). :

TVJL

23 August 2011 at 10:12 #48463

Colin, could you post a photograph of the badge, please?

I’m not quite sure that I understand your point on trade mark protection. Material in which copyright subsists falls into the public domain in due course by operation of law (ditto patent, btw). However, trade mark protection does not operate in that way at all, notwithstanding corporate insolvency etc.. So, copyright protection for most of ‘our’ badge designs (pre and post war) will almost certainly have ended by now. However, AML can still protect its trade marks in the usual way (via its registered rights and the law of passing off).

TVJL

12 August 2011 at 21:18 #48443

The number of missing cars shrinks by one, then. Hurrah!

TVJL

10 August 2011 at 16:10 #48435

Nice project car – and, on wires!

TVJL

1 August 2011 at 11:23 #48411

Thanks for the tip-off and help, Christian. We have acquired a set now. 😀

How are things going with your quest to have replica bumpers manufactured?

TVJL

21 July 2011 at 13:26 #48385

Indeed. 😀

TVJL

19 July 2011 at 20:40 #48372

Not much to discuss, I’m afraid. The answer is ‘none’. :crazy: