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Rootes Archive Fundraising Drive Begins – NOW!
Our 2019 fundraising drive to help retire the Archive’s remaining debt was slated to begin this spring, but recent developments have weakened the British Pound considerably as compared to our dollar. To take advantage of this, the 2019 drive is beginning now!
Again this year, donations will be matched on a dollar for dollar basis! For every dollar you donate, between now and May 1st, another matching dollar will be provided to the Archive by an anonymous donor.
The easiest way to donate is to use PayPal at https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=R36A2FWT8WYGW
Other donation methods and details are described elsewhere here on the CAT Forum at https://www.catmbr.org/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=6183
The Rootes Archive is the world’s premier facility for preserving Rootes’ heritage. It houses and preserves hundreds of thousands of Rootes’ engineering drawings including an estimated ten-thousand drawings related to the Alpine and Tiger. And there’s much more than drawings in their collection.
For many years the Archive rented space to house their collection but were met with continually rising rents which caused the Trustees to purchase their own building. A structure was custom built to accommodate the Archive’s unique needs, but its cost was significant. The 2,000 sq ft building cost nearly $300,000. Funds were raised from clubs and owners world-wide and the remaining debt is now less than $60,000. Once this debt is retired, the Archive’s financial future will be secured. Please consider sending some money their way. (If every CAT member donated $20 taking advantage of this year’s matching funds offer, one-third of the debt would be erased!)
Trustee Matthew Ollman has single handedly scanned 4-thousand more drawings since the Grand Opening last April. These cover the pre-1964 time period and include much of the Audax family of Rootes cars, including the Husky and earlier Alpines. Over 20-thousand drawings have now been scanned. Each new scan is retained at the Archive while a copy is daily backed up to off-site severs.
Cataloging the thousands of oversized drawings continues. One very interesting recent find was a rolled drawing that when stretched out measured 12 feet long and about 3 ft tall. Curiously, it was not a Rootes drawing! It’s a full-sized drawing of the Mk2’s 289 which was provided by Ford to Rootes engineers in 1964.
Anyone wanting to visit or even to help with research or scanning can contact any of the Trustees. Contact information for them plus much more information on the Archive is available on the Archive’s website at https://www.rootesarchive.org/ (This site contains quite a bit of information about the Archive and the activities there – you may want to check it out.)
The Matching Donation period will continue through May 1st so please act soon. (If every CAT member took advantage of this year's matching funds offer and donated $20, one-third of the remaining debt would be erased!) I'll be pitching in. Please join in helping preserve our marques' heritage.
Buck Trippel
Our 2019 fundraising drive to help retire the Archive’s remaining debt was slated to begin this spring, but recent developments have weakened the British Pound considerably as compared to our dollar. To take advantage of this, the 2019 drive is beginning now!
Again this year, donations will be matched on a dollar for dollar basis! For every dollar you donate, between now and May 1st, another matching dollar will be provided to the Archive by an anonymous donor.
The easiest way to donate is to use PayPal at https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=R36A2FWT8WYGW
Other donation methods and details are described elsewhere here on the CAT Forum at https://www.catmbr.org/VB_forum/showthread.php?t=6183
The Rootes Archive is the world’s premier facility for preserving Rootes’ heritage. It houses and preserves hundreds of thousands of Rootes’ engineering drawings including an estimated ten-thousand drawings related to the Alpine and Tiger. And there’s much more than drawings in their collection.
For many years the Archive rented space to house their collection but were met with continually rising rents which caused the Trustees to purchase their own building. A structure was custom built to accommodate the Archive’s unique needs, but its cost was significant. The 2,000 sq ft building cost nearly $300,000. Funds were raised from clubs and owners world-wide and the remaining debt is now less than $60,000. Once this debt is retired, the Archive’s financial future will be secured. Please consider sending some money their way. (If every CAT member donated $20 taking advantage of this year’s matching funds offer, one-third of the debt would be erased!)
Trustee Matthew Ollman has single handedly scanned 4-thousand more drawings since the Grand Opening last April. These cover the pre-1964 time period and include much of the Audax family of Rootes cars, including the Husky and earlier Alpines. Over 20-thousand drawings have now been scanned. Each new scan is retained at the Archive while a copy is daily backed up to off-site severs.
Cataloging the thousands of oversized drawings continues. One very interesting recent find was a rolled drawing that when stretched out measured 12 feet long and about 3 ft tall. Curiously, it was not a Rootes drawing! It’s a full-sized drawing of the Mk2’s 289 which was provided by Ford to Rootes engineers in 1964.
Anyone wanting to visit or even to help with research or scanning can contact any of the Trustees. Contact information for them plus much more information on the Archive is available on the Archive’s website at https://www.rootesarchive.org/ (This site contains quite a bit of information about the Archive and the activities there – you may want to check it out.)
The Matching Donation period will continue through May 1st so please act soon. (If every CAT member took advantage of this year's matching funds offer and donated $20, one-third of the remaining debt would be erased!) I'll be pitching in. Please join in helping preserve our marques' heritage.
Buck Trippel
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