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CrashandBern


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I'm hoping that someone on here may know the WD number of General Sir Arthur Currie's Roll Royce?

Over the years I've tracked down a few pictures of the car in question and there are tantalising glimpses of the WD number but in every photo there's always either a lot of glare on the engine cover of someone standing in the way!   

I've spent hours trawling the net looking for a clear picture or a log of the WD number assigned to it but to no avail so I'm hoping someone out there can help.

 

Thanks a lot

Bern



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Have you tried converting the photo to a negative? Sometimes that works. Or else play with the contrasts can sometimes yield a result.

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I tried looking for General Haig and looked in the background. Hope this helps.

Helen x

 



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Helen you're an absolute star, thank you so much, that's much higher resolution than the image I had and I can finally see some of the numbers.


So after playing about with brightness and contrast as brad suggested and a lot of despeckling it looks like the number is M^19977 although the last digit could be a 1?
I'd be glad to hear anyone else's opinion especially if they have better software skills or sharper eyes than me smile



-- Edited by CrashandBern on Monday 15th of February 2016 10:40:04 PM



-- Edited by CrashandBern on Tuesday 16th of February 2016 08:13:33 AM

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I vote for the last digit being a 7 - the down stroke of the last digit appears to be at the same angle (ie parallel) to the digit before.

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I fully endorse Brad and his opinions on  "le parallel"

 



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brad wrote:

I vote for the last digit being a 7 - the down stroke of the last digit appears to be at the same angle (ie parallel) to the digit before.

cheers,

bj

 Thanks brad it does look more like a 7 than a 1 to me.



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Hiya, I was have a nose through the Scottish archives and came across another version of the photo. The Image has a zoomable version and it is clearly a number seven.

http://digital.nls.uk/first-world-war-official-photographs/pageturner.cfm?id=74549242&mode=zoom



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Brilliant, Thanks Helen that's conclusive then... guess I'll have start a master now!

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