The Archive Trust manages the drawings but the ownership still is retained by Peugeot. I don't know what the Archive will ultimately do about future access to the scans but since our team is comprised of members of CAT and STOA and since these clubs have financially supported the Archive, the Archive may be more generous to our club members as they already are to members of the ARRC who provides the majority of the Archive's financial support.
Our team's plan is to first complete a catalog of what we have now found, perhaps listed by Rootes part number (as listed in the Rootes Parts Manual).
Meanwhile Bill Rogers plans to do PhotoShop work on some of the drawings in order to clean them up and make them more readable. Bill shot more than 500 frames. And we scanned quite a few more as well.
Later, once we're back in California, we hope to carefully examine what data we've collected to try to connect dots. We also want to figure a way to organize the scans, perhaps following the Parts Manual's numbering system.
A DVD (perhaps even including a book with it) may be in the future but that will take a little time. First, the Archive would have to find some way of watermarking the drawings to keep someone from copying, selling, or using them without permission. The Archive has contractual restrictions imposed on them by Peugeot which may limit distribution. There are also certain restrictions on commercial use. However this is not a total prohibition and the Archive is vested with some discretion as to what may be allowed without needing to negotiate a license from Peugeot. In other words, there are some complicated issues that will need to be worked out before a DVD could be sold. There's also the possibility that individual scans may be bought and then delivered by email. I simply don't know how this will work out in the end.
BTW, the British Alpine club has put in a tremendous amount of effort into documenting their car. They have over a thousand documents digitized and estimate they might have 9,000 more to uncover and preserve. It's a huge task. Like us, they also need help in their Archive search and preservation scanning.
I have to wake up in about 5 hours to head to Coventry so I'll cut this short now. However, as far as we know, they still have a number of records stored at the Archive. We'll be guided by the head of the museum so I'll know more tomorrow (make that later today- it's almost 2am here). g-nite! g-morning? whatever...
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