David,
No, that possibility was discarded early on; "Mr. Lotus" Chapman was Anthony
Colin Bruce Chapman, so the initials don't match.
Jim Algar
"Webster, David" wrote:
> It wasn't Colin Chapman (Mr Lotus) was it?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Algar [mailto:JamesA@hi-torque.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 10:48 AM
> To: Dave O'Neill; MidgetSpriteClub; Spridget List
> Subject: Re: Autographed valve cover
>
> Dave,
>
> And to answer (belatedly) your question about my Sprite's "autographed"
> valve
> cover...no, never found anything out. I suspect that C.R. Chapman was just a
> worker on the engine assembly line who got fed up with being an anonymous
> cog
> in a big production process, whipped out his engraving tool and
> "immortalized"
> himself on the A-series engine passing under his hands at that moment. Well,
> if
> it made him feel better, good on him.
>
> As I say, that's just my guess..until a better (or more interesting) theory
> comes along.
>
> Jim Algar
> Valencia, CA U.S.A.
>
> Dave O'Neill wrote:
|