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[Genem]

I was talking to the Editor of one of the commercial LR magazines earlier this week, he made he very good point that with a constant turnover of new people buying the vehicles there is always a need for some rehashes of very basic stuff -  the "how to bleed the brakes story" was the example quoted. If you have a clever way of removing chassis bushes....

Personally I really enjoy reading well written stories of long-distance travel, people met, experiences had. I'd enjoy stories of vehicles in use - construction sites, hydro dams, farm hacks, whatever.
This is perhaps an opportunity to look at a wider selection of material than just recent events ?

[w3526602]

Hi,

In the days when I used to buy "Practical Motorist" (and later, it's more specialist cousins), my first "Port of Call" was the technical  Q&A pages.

And then Barbara became Press Officer at DVLA, which meant she had access to just about every vehicle orientated magazine ... too many to read at work, so she had to bring some home ... didn't she? That included and the occasional Police Review".  By the time she moved to beingt the "Contracts Manager", I'd lost the habit of buying magazines.

Are there enough "non-forum" members to warrant printing Q&As from these columns?

602

PS, I've got an idea for a short article (technical/Heath Robinson), which might use most of a page ... if I can access my photos.

[whitehillbilly64]

B2l spring arrived today.
Thanks to those involved.

whitehillbilly

[Craig T]

I have just sent an email to both the addresses in the original post but thought I'd ask here too...
What formats can you read? Are MS Word documents okay or do you need a PDF or something else?

Craig.

[Wittsend]

Speaking on behalf of Martin our Editor - we can take any format you care to send.

However - there is no need to spend time formating the the text style or font.

Plain text - Word is fine... Notepad or Wordpad, Open Office docs, etc. etc.

PDF documents are difficult as they have to be stripped back to something editable, a little more work.
And if Martin can't handle the file (which I'd be very surprised), we have tools here at Wittsend Towers.

The point being is that your article will be turned into B2Ls format/style and will be proof read by our sub editors.

So, you don't have to be a spelling or grammar expert - we'll do it for you!


 

[Craig T]

Thanks for that, I'll send something over in a Word document and see what you all think.... 

Craig.

[andyjb]

I'll be able to throw some words together and some photos from a run out the north west club did last year
Andy

[Genem]

Thanks for that, I'll send something over in a Word document and see what you all think.... 

Craig.

One point, send photos as separate files rather than embedded in a Word document.