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Recent additions / change log of this web site
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Over the last few month the following additions have been made:
- July 2008
- From the moment that my collection of DS420 automobilia grew past its
initial stage, some six years ago, the top of my wishlist
has been a 1:43 scale model of a DS420 hearse,
made by Cheshire Scale Models around 1992.
My collector's goal is to have at least one specimen
of each DS420 scale model that was ever manufactured.
Every now and then a new DS420 scale model is issued by a manufacturer
somewhere in the world.
But in our current global marketplace they show up in Google or on eBay
soon enough, and then it is simple to order one
and thus keep the collection complete.
But that 1992 Cheshire hearse turned out to be impossible to find.
Year after year it stayed the proverbial white spot in my collection.
I distributed flyers at swap meets, autojumbles and to "white metal"
model vendors, and even ran an advertisement in the Journal of the
British National Association of Funeral Directors.
The only result until now was that I found two people who have one,
but don't want to sell...
The quest has come to an end because I could buy one from Australia.
I have added pictures to the
scale models page.
Now I only have to rethink my wishlist.
- Bob Boston converted a hearse to a flower car in the style
of the Chicago gangster funerals of the 30's.
A photo is shown on the
converted cars page.
- Added a small magazine article, in Italian, on the
1984 Office Car.
- June 2008
- May 2008
- The latest (Chinese) manufacturer of DS420 scale models
offered me a few
specimen with experimental colours.
- The
Shenzhen Jiarun
company produced a 1:18 (!!) scale DS420 limo model,
plus added three new colours to its 1:43 scale model range.
- Oxford Diecast,
who produce Corgi-like 1:43 scale models,
will release an "old English white" limo and a black hearse in August.
Price will be under £20.-
- April 2008
- Widely published but rare to find in original form
is press photo 189656
from the introduction of the DS420 in 1968.
- On the web links page I have added a link to a 17-page
Parts Pricelist,
published by the JDHT and Unipart (PDF format).
- Neil Bottrill, free lance car body designer in Manchester,
published an 8-page portfolio proposing a successor to the DS420.
I have added a reference
to his publication.
The files for this web site are maintained on a computer at my home.
Every month a batch of new and/or modified files is transported
to the computer that serves the domain www.myDS420.info.
Minor changes and corrections are not listed.
Maintenance to the page "Limo&Wedding Hire Companies" is not recorded.
This web site currently has 5020 unique pages,
generated from 18759 files (771 Mb).
The majority consists of the four Service Manuals (1492 pages),
three Parts Catalogues (1261 pages) and seven Owner's Handbooks (658 pages).
The pages:files=1:4 ratio (approx.)
is because most of the pages take four files:
medium size html+jpeg and large size html+jpeg.
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