USA trip, serial numbers study (was Re: [E-Type] Nuts and Bolts)

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Hi Stephan and E-TYPErs,

    As you asked publicly, here is my answer and some news & comments.

    First of all greetings from Portland/Astoria, Oregon; Phoenix/Tucson,
    Arizona; and L.A., California. Had a super trip! The E-TYPE (and

Vette) highlights:

            1. Met Thony Parkinson and his suberb E in Scottsdale,
               even had a drive :)))))))))))))))

            2. Met George in Tucson, had a great party and introduced
               George to his VetteNet peer, Bob Kaneshige 
               <khaav@asuvm.inre.asu.edu>

            3. Visited a very special private collection of ALL
               the '57 passanger cars built in the USA, a place
               called Classic Heaven -- unbeliveble!

            4. Visited the Pedersen (?) car museum in L.A., an
               interesting consept car show.

At 21.51 1998-01-23 +0100, Stephan Perthes wrote:

My idea is to in an Excel spreadsheet, The spreadsheet can then be
converted to HTML for publication on the web. I think that this
will be easier to maintain than doing it directly in HTML.

Good idea, Mike, but then the Excel sheet should be not too big.
Better try with several data first and see how it works.
Converting a XLS to HTML can result in a HUGE HTML file,
either by volume (KBs), and/or by the size which is to be viewed by
the browser.
Too much scrolling sideways and up/down makes searching and reading
pretty difficult.

I tried it also (Hi Seppo & Pekka :wink: and then quit this job …

BTW: What about your data collection, Seppo ???

    Belive it or not folks, I am making progress! I now have all 
    the data entered and I have been playing with the model quite a bit.
    I feel that I would now be willing to make the collected
    E-TYPE data public for corrections and I would also be
    willing to publish the numbers from the S1 part of my
    model. These numbers estimate the seral numbers based on
    the date of manufacture and can also be used to estimate
    the build date if one of the original serial numbers are known.
    These numbers are a small part of a rather big Excel model
    (George has a print-out and could give a comment about
    the feasibility of making parts of it public) and I would
    like to know what is the preferred way of issuing the numbers.
    My own idea would be to generate just a textual list with the
    following items:

    1. Month of manufacture
    2. Chassis number
    3. Engine number
    4. Transmission number

    Of course the following combinations would have their own
    columns (for S1) and the numbers would represent the 
    ESTIMATED first item of the month:

    OTS RHD         FHC RHD         2+2 RHD
    OTS LHD         FHC LHD         2+2 LHD

    You can probably see why table may be 9" wide ;-)

    Let me know how to proceed. Should I split the data to smaller
    pieces and if, how?

cYa,
sin~

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Seppo Nikkila wrote:>

            3. Visited a very special private collection of ALL
               the '57 passanger cars built in the USA, a place
               called Classic Heaven -- unbeliveble!

Where is the Classic Heaven museum?

            4. Visited the Pedersen (?) car museum in L.A., an
               interesting consept car show.

It’s Peterson, the original publisher of Hot Rod Magazine. Did you see his magnificent D-Type?

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Had a super trip! The E-TYPE highlights:
Congratulations! Would have loved to be with you …

    My own idea would be to generate just a textual list with

the

    following items:

    1. Month of manufacture
    2. Chassis number
    3. Engine number
    4. Transmission number

    Of course the following combinations would have their own
    columns (for S1) and the numbers would represent the
    ESTIMATED first item of the month:

    OTS RHD         FHC RHD         2+2 RHD
    OTS LHD         FHC LHD         2+2 LHD

I’m with you.

Publication in HTML is not recommended, for several reasons:

  1. An HTML converted from XLS will be too big.
    I tested again yesterday: 45 KB XLS turned to a 120 KB HTML.
    After a few changes, it grew even to 190 KB (edited with Netscape
    Composer,
    which makes normally much smaller HTML files than MS Frontpage, for
    example).

2a) Updating an HTML “spreadsheet” is more time consuming than
updating XLS.
2b) Updating XLS first, and after each update convert to a new HTML,
is
even more time consuming.

  1. XLS changed to HTML will (mostly) result in a form which is much
    bigger
    than a 15" screen (800x600 pixel => abt. the regular size which most
    users have).
    Even worse when using 14" / 640 x 480). And there should be only a few
    surfers
    who have a 20" to 22" screen, using 1280x1024 pixel.

Just wanted to mention.

Stephan
Stephan Perthes
'66 E-Type 2+2 S.I 4,2
http://www.perthes.de/e-site/
“Hope I die before I get old” © 1967 Pete Townshend.

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At 11:55 AM 1/24/98 +0000, Seppo wrote:

   These numbers are a small part of a rather big Excel model
   (George has a print-out and could give a comment about
   the feasibility of making parts of it public) and I would
   like to know what is the preferred way of issuing the numbers.
   My own idea would be to generate just a textual list with the
   following items:

   1. Month of manufacture
   2. Chassis number
   3. Engine number
   4. Transmission number

   Of course the following combinations would have their own
   columns (for S1) and the numbers would represent the 
   ESTIMATED first item of the month:

   OTS RHD         FHC RHD         2+2 RHD
   OTS LHD         FHC LHD         2+2 LHD

   You can probably see why table may be 9" wide ;-)

   Let me know how to proceed. Should I split the data to smaller
   pieces and if, how?

cYa,
sin~

Seppo-

For my self, I’d be perfectly happy to have the data in Excel file format.
Since there’s discomfort about posting to the list with attachments, how
about sending me & anyone interested a copy directly?

Thanks
Paul Baker 68 OTS S1.5
@Paul_Baker