Leica LTM The significance of George Carr

Leica M39 screw mount bodies/lenses
Valspar is still for sale (although formula may have changed over time), you can find it here.

There's an interesting bit on vintage Valspar paints on this car restoration pages, here.

Anybody feel like baking a black or gray coat onto an old Zorki top plate? 😀


I would still like to see any George Carr restorations? Anybody know of online pictures of restorations mr. Carr did?
 
...and Japlac...another brand.

Brushing cellulose...one used to keep a layer of thinner over the paint in the tin and dip through it. Then rub the results down with compound and newspaper, my Railton took ages but it worked!

Slowly, slowly, the memory starts to work. I remember Manders...and wasn't there a Campkins in Bond Street roughly opposite Wallace Heaton?

Brunnings anyone?

I have a camera that was repainted in March 1980 by T Joyce (anyone), well that was the name carefully marked within, will post pics on the conversion thread.

Michael
 
Japlac sounds even likelier than Valspar!

Ah, Brunnings. Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive.

I think the Bond Street Campkins was well after the early 70s. But then, I lived in Cambridge in 73/74 and not on the King's Road until '76 or so.

And - aaargh - a Railton. Did you ever try turning corners with it? The few Railton owners I knew said that this was not recommended. Best just to admire its gorgeous lines.

Cheers,

R.
 
Corners? What corners? I never noticed any corners. I was too involved in thinking of ways of bringing the thing to a halt. Early car, cable breaks, great fun!

Have posted pic of repaint job mentioned above on conversion thread.

Michael
 
1930 Leica I Converted and Restored by George Carr

1930 Leica I Converted and Restored by George Carr

This thread reminded me of an interesting camera I had stored away since I acquired it in the early 1980's.

It is signed in pencil "G. Carr 8/70".

I will soon be putting it up on Ebay.


-David.


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The signiicance of George Carr

The signiicance of George Carr

I met George Carr in 1938 and we remained firm friends until about 1951 when I was posted to France with the RAF. We shared a common interest in explosives and firearms. One day he came into possession of a small .22 revolver with a folding trigger. He was handling it when it fired and put a bullet through his index finger. Coolly, he blew into the entrance hole, blood spurted from the exit hole. He then wrapped a handkerchief round his hand, took a hammer and smashed the gun to pieces. Only then did he go indoors to tell his mother.
We dismantled unexploded German incendiary bombs, manufactured gunpowder and detonating powder. Chemists for miles around refused to sell us the ingredients we needed.

George's interest in photography began early during WW2 when his father gave him a Leica III. I stlll have several photos he took of scenes around Crosslee. After my departure with the RAF I learned George had been won an award from the Leica Club of Scotland for an action photo of a motor cycle race.

We lost touch, I married and my parents retired to Spain so I never returned to Crosslee until I retired in May 1995. I called to see him but his wife refused to let me into the house explaining that George was very ill. Presumably he died shortly after.

Most of my memories are boyhood recollections long before he entered into Leica repairs so I can contribute nothing to that phase of his life.
 
The signiicance of George Carr

The signiicance of George Carr

I met George Carr in 1938 and we remained firm friends until about 1951 when I was posted to France with the RAF. We shared a common interest in explosives and firearms. One day he came into possession of a small .22 revolver with a folding trigger. He was handling it when it fired and put a bullet through his index finger. Coolly, he blew into the entrance hole, blood spurted from the exit hole. He then wrapped a handkerchief round his hand, took a hammer and smashed the gun to pieces. Only then did he go indoors to tell his mother.
We dismantled unexploded German incendiary bombs, manufactured gunpowder and detonating powder. Chemists for miles around refused to sell us the ingredients we needed.

George's interest in photography began early during WW2 when his father gave him a Leica III. I still have several photos he took of scenes around Crosslee. After my departure with the RAF I learned George had been won an award from the Leica Club of Scotland for an action photo of a motor cycle race.

We lost touch, I married and my parents retired to Spain so I never returned to Crosslee until I retired in May 1995. I called to see him but his wife refused to let me into the house explaining that George was very ill. Presumably he died shortly after.

Most of my memories are boyhood recollections long before he entered into Leica repairs so I can contribute nothing to that phase of his life.
 
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