Amazing Companion to my Seamaster!

Wifey needs to get you some Canadian maple syrup, complete the trifecta! 😜

when blue prints were actually "blue" prints. great find.

Love the seamaster and blueprint.. You always find such interesting stuff.

Whew, when I first sat at a drawing board 55 years ago we never saw blueprints, even in a 110 year old business copies were all dyelines. Oh the smell of ammonia in the print room!

In a later job I did have to take some 1930s originals on linen and update them 😲

There can only be one companion to a Seamaster.

Not sure if I would have got away with that at British Steel in the 1960/70s. Perhaps a bit of chatting up the ladies who ran the print room might have worked though....

..... when I was in the apprentice welding school there was a busy trade in fabricating wine racks for senior B.S. personnel. We did not make a penny out of it, just learned that life is rarely fair. Did learn a bit about making stick welding look neat I suppose.

In the late 1980s I knew the back way in to the Team Lotus base at Fawlty Towers (properly known as Ketteringham Hall) and was there to talk to Andrew Ferguson who was once team manager to the F1 team under Colin Chapman and now was now in a job with less stress. In his large office (once the built-in chapel) he had prints of design drawings strewn all across the room. He said that they were considering selling copies via the Team's supporters club and asked which did I think would sell best. I said that anything drawn or annotated by ACBC himself would go very well. Colin wrote very small letters and was very distinctive. Andrew offered to let me take any of the test prints I fancied. Whooo!

They are somewhere in my house. There is a lot of stuff in this house Haven't seen them for some years 🙁 But -- they are here somewhere.

Now, ask me about Andrew Ferguson's rapid turnover of secretarial assistants (work safe and safe for reading by Andrew's widow).