Handing it down

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by chris vickery

Perhaps between todays modern science and technology, someone who has a copy can get it to those whose are in the know and maybe scrub the soundtrack and/or establish a transcript of somesort and have a modern voiceover put in place of the original???
I believe in todays world, soundtracks also have a transcript done in black and white to avoid such problems later on in production...Was there ever a transcript made of the seminar?

Chris..
Do you know if Brian Cox is still around..??Didn't he live next door to Bill G.//??
He may have more info on this but I haven't been in touch with him for the past 5-6 years..maybe longer..
He was into motorcycles and may still be on MLU but I haven't seen him around lately.If you or Brian Asbury know of him maybe he has something..

Alex

[Marc Montgomery]

wow this brings up memories.

When I first became involved with CMPs, I corresponded at length with Peter Ford, and much later, we had a great day together when he came to Montreal only a very short time before his untimely death.

He knew quite simply truly massive amounts of historical information, not just CMPs but indeed all kinds of things related to the war effort and production. His passing was a great loss to the hobby. I hope someone comes up with a copy of the meeting, and I agree entirely with Keith re voiceover...possibly captioning if the dialogue can be determined.

Perhaps instead of being a touchy subject for the Gregg family, they may be glad someone is still interested in his work, and view this as a legacy to his memory. Thats been my experience in media.

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Marc Montgomery

wow this brings up memories.

When I first became involved with CMPs, I corresponded at length with Peter Ford, and much later, we had a great day together when he came to Montreal only a very short time before his untimely death.

He knew quite simply truly massive amounts of historical information, not just CMPs but indeed all kinds of things related to the war effort and production. His passing was a great loss to the hobby. I hope someone comes up with a copy of the meeting, and I agree entirely with Keith re voice over...possibly captioning if the dialogue can be determined.

Perhaps instead of being a touchy subject for the Gregg family, they may be glad someone is still interested in his work, and view this as a legacy to his memory. That s been my experience in media.

Marc.
After Peter left your place he stopped in Ottawa here and he and Elizabeth had dinner with us..
It was a memorable visit and Peter had a second helping of Dotty's home made lemon pie..his favourite..

They then left heading home to the prairies and not a week later Elizabeth contacted me with the shocking news of Peters passing..
He was fighting a cold and congestion when he was here ..
But over all seemed in good health.
I miss him..we lost a CMP jewel in the crown..

RIP Peter.

[Randy Croke]

I talked to a gentleman some time ago who was in attendance and has a copy of the tapes - I have no idea about the sound quality, but did encourage him to proceed with what would be an amazing project.

It's not my place to identify him here, but will try to make contact with him and see if anything can be done.

Randy

[derk derin]

Hi All,
I have a copy of this tape and watched all of it.I thought because my tape was a copy of a tape that was the reason of the poor quality sound.There must be alot of information discussed at this event that we all would enjoy to hear about.There was one fact discussed by a gentleman at the head table that said not too many people knew about but the Canadian Army had all brand new fighting vehicles for the Normandy invasion to use instead of vehicles that had already seen hard use up until then.I found that interesting and wish I could have heard more but was unable to hear the conversation clearly.I am currently trying to find the tape as I watched it last winter and haven't seen it since then.It is here and if nobody beats me to it,I will try and find it and pass it onto whoever is up to the challenge of working on it.
Regards,Derk.

[Keith Webb]

We have a full sound studio here.

Originally Posted by derk derin

Hi All,
I have a copy of this tape and watched all of it.I thought because my tape was a copy of a tape that was the reason of the poor quality sound.There must be alot of information discussed at this event that we all would enjoy to hear about.There was one fact discussed by a gentleman at the head table that said not too many people knew about but the Canadian Army had all brand new fighting vehicles for the Normandy invasion to use instead of vehicles that had already seen hard use up until then.I found that interesting and wish I could have heard more but was unable to hear the conversation clearly.I am currently trying to find the tape as I watched it last winter and haven't seen it since then.It is here and if nobody beats me to it,I will try and find it and pass it onto whoever is up to the challenge of working on it.
Regards,Derk.

[Larry Hayward]

Bill Gregg was a great guy. I wrote to him in Canada in 1980 /81 and asked if there were any books available on Canadian vehicles in WW2 and by return he sent me a copy of Canada's Fighting Vehicles Europe 1943-45, with a note saying send me CAN$5 when you get a chance - what a trusting guy I thought! He certainly got his CAN$5 and I later had a few other off him in similar fashion.

I still have the above as a great reference book, and so far not it's not been matched for the amount of AFVs wheeled vehicles and trailers, even by Bart.

Quite a rare book now I think