Site Information & About the Author

Healey Journal

Author: The creator of the Web site is Dr. James M. Wilson, a Senior Lecturer (roughly equivalent to an Associate Professor in an American University) in the Department of Management at the University of Glasgow. His areas of expertise are project management and the history of production management.

I live in a suburb northwest of Glasgow, and have been in Scotland for 25+ years. Prior to that I lived in Houston, Texas. While in the USA I owned a 1964 MGB, and then a 1973 Triumph Spitfire when they were just used cars and not "classics"; and numerous other clunkers and mechanical challenges. I've rebuilt engines, and done all sorts of other "fixes" both mechanical and bodywork, but on a minor scale compared to the project described here.

This is my first Healey, and it is the biggest automotive project I've ever undertaken. This is also my first, and only website. I've spent a few odd hours over the past six months (as of 12/2003) creating it before placing what you see on the web, and intend to spend an hour or two every month or so in updating it. (Postscript: I'm finding I'm spending an hour or two once or twice a week on the site- it is addictive; Post-postscript: I'm now finding it harder to keep up with updating the site as conscientiously as I should, I think I'll need to make it a diary entry and stick to it, just like I've made working regularly on the cars a commitment)

Site Information: The site was created using the NAMO webeditor 5.5 (now updated to Version 6). I found the package fairly easy to understand and use, and you may be the best judge of the site created. Further information about the web editor may be available directly from NAMO: www.namo.com Update January,2010: it now seems than NAMO isn't supporting their product so much- I've been on their website to follow up on a little glitch and they're only selling the older version I have and don't seem to respond to enquiries; and other users have commented on a long standing lack of support. So it looks like I've now got an orphaned piece of software. I still like it, though....

Imaging: Three sources of images were used. Most are digital images produced using a Kodak P850 most recently and previously a CX6330 camera and uploaded. Most pictures of the car from 2002 before it was dismantled and during that process were taken with an Olympus OM-2 system (typically with the 55 mm normal lens, but 24, 35, 135 and 35-70 zoom lenses were used too). The majority of these photographs were placed on a CD when developed, but a minority were scanned from the printed pictures. The scanner used for these, and for the various documents shown, was one bundled in with our computer; more recently I've acquired a Canon 8800 scanner and have found it very effective, though it's more capable than I am....

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