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How we get the
material?
A lot of the material presented here as you might have noticed is in
fact gleaned from the net, some book, or magazine in some form or
another. Much of the photo material in fact has ebay as its source! In
most cases we attempt to contact by email the owner of website the
source material came from and ask permission to reprint. However many
times the email link bounces, it gets binned by some spam handler or no
reply is received back. If there is no specific copyright and we believe
the material is public domain and not proprietary we use the information
anyway and credit the source by way or links and names.
In some instances an image robot gathers material and its then
difficult to credit the author. Nor is it always possible to verify
whether the previous owner of the material is in fact the original
author. In some form or another most of the material here is a
duplication of resource that has been produced and reproduced over
the past sixty or seventy years. In other instances users email me
material that I assume is their work but in fact may have been gathered
elsewhere.
Objections: If however I have material on this site which you
have sole ownership and object to me using it here, please
contact me to remove it or put up
appropriate acknowledgements etc. Its certainly not my intention to
profit from someone else's work and
I make no claims that all material here is my own original work, though
of course a lot of it is.
Copyright
Material
Note there is no copyright or reserved rights as such to this site
except for site design and layout. All
my own original works and photos I present freely to the public domain -
All other work remains the property of the original holder.
Commercial or
Not?, Why donations?
No despite professional appearances this site is NOT commercial, nor am
I doing this for monetary gains but this huge site takes a great deal of
time and money. Your donations help offset this but only to a
small degree. And what price do you put on your own time?,
this effort is for the love of the hobby not for the love of money.
Note: The donations to this site are to offset it's continued
development and hosting costs, you are NOT paying for the material
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