Posted By : Chris Taylor,
27-Oct-2004, 01:40pm
You've just answered a question that was going through my mind about the registration number! For 1964, the B suffix would have been in use in many
registration areas, (but not all). KV is a Coventry area registration I think and I would have thought a busy area like Coventry would have gone
over to the year letter suffix early on.
However it seems that 2413 KV was probably a factory registration number and probably appeared on a number of cars. (The 3VC, 4VC, 5VC series
certainly did, appearing on both TRs and Vitesse 6 publicity photos).
It would be interesting to know if the alternative picture of a two-tone car is a different car, a repaint, or just a retouched photo. If a
retouched photo, which was the original? The two tone or the white one?
The poster is typical of the style and tone of Triumph's 1960's adverts which seem to be some way ahead of BMC etc in the use of humour and catchy
phrases. (My favourites are the City gent getting into a 13/60 in preference to his Rolls Royce with the title "The number one number two car" and
the Vitesse "Two Seater Beater.")
What is slightly unusual about this car is that unlike other Heralds, especially saloons, there is no visible positive camber in the rear
suspension. We will never know what weight was in the boot to achieve that! Being at a channel port, perhaps smuggled booze?!!!
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Posted By : Graham Cowan, 27-Oct-2004,
02:33pm
I didnÂ’t know pictures could be retouched in days-gone-by pre-photoshop!
My favourite ad is the gent parking his 13/60 in an unfeasibly small space between two parked cars, with an overly inquisitive neighbour
peering out behind the curtains…the ad slogan being something along the lines of ‘The Herald, a cosy
parkerÂ’.
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Posted By : James Carruthers,
27-Oct-2004, 02:42pm
Colour prints would have been very much "touched up" in days gone by... so its not that surprising...
Essentially it would have been hand coloured...
James
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Posted By : Chris Taylor,
27-Oct-2004, 06:31pm
The plot thickens!
While having heard of several cases where ST publicity photos WERE retouched, I rather expected the two most similar photos (with the
hovercraft coming towards the shore in top right of the photo) to be identical, BUT THEY ARE NOT!
While the man and women appear identical, as does the hovercraft, and even the lengths of rope on the edge of the harbour, the car is
not quite in the same alignment, there is a gully or joint in the concrete disappearing under the left front wheel in the black and
white advert but not in the other two, and only in the black and white advert is there the lack of positive camber seen in most Herald
adverts, and clearly visible in the two colour pictures!
So there must either have been two different photo shoots (but how do you get even the creases in the bloke's suit identical?) or a
rather more drastic manipulation of the photograph with different car images superimposed on the same hovercraft background.
Goodness me, what a sad person I am! Must get out and drive more!
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Posted By : James
Carruthers, 27-Oct-2004, 06:57pm
You'd be amazed at what they used to be able to do with photo manipulation...
Photoshop is all the rage now - but they used to be able to do very clever things, it just took much longer... and required much
more skill.
James
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Posted By : Gary
Davey, 27-Oct-2004, 10:38pm
FYI I think the location for these photos was in front of 'Columbine Works' East Cowes, Isle of Wight, looking West toward
Cowes with Fawley oil refinery visible on the horizon in the second shot.
This was of course the birthplace of the hovercraft!
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Posted By : William
Davies, 27-Oct-2004, 11:32pm
Welcome to the world of anoraksia - some of us get obsessive about this kind of stuff!
I've attached a piece of original artwork from a large collection which came to market a few years ago (sadly I could only afford 2
pieces). This started life as a photograph of an early Estate taken outside one of the Standard-Triumph owned houses on Gibbet Hill
Road, close to Warwick University. As you can see, the car has been completely drawn over, framed with an outline in tipex! Very
intriguing - the collection I viewed had 30-40 similarly treated images, none of which I could positively identify from
contemporary adverts or brochures.
The other piece of artwork I bought with this is the Coupe forms the basis of the Rarebits4classics logo - the image subsequently
found it's way all over the internet.....
Cheers,
Bill.
Hovercrafty
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Posted By : Craig Gingell,
27-Oct-2004, 05:46pm
Chris,
That makes at least three versions of the, "Only a hovercraft has more independent suspension than a Triumph Herald" advert. Here's the other
two I've seen.
(pics to follow...)
These prints are available from the Vintage Ad Gallery at the TSSC Club Shop at -
http://www.tssc.org.uk/catalog.asp?category=200204...
Craig
