Why couldn't it have been a previous owner who wanted to immortalize
himself? This would make more sense to me, because, logistically, a guy
working on the assembly line would probably not have had time to engrave his
name on the valve cover as the engine was moving down the line, and would
probably not have had access to an engraving tool either.
Bob
>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:
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