Talk:Colin Chapman
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To-do list for Colin Chapman: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2007-07-28
I think organization is hard because Chapman wore many hats (when he wasn't flinging them in the air--that personal trademark should be in the article too!) simutaneously and never ceased any of them. So, it would seem chronological is out as an organizing framework. Maybe something roughly like the following would work: * Biographical information * Engineer for Bristol Aeroplane * Early trials cars and kit cars * Chapman as automobile manufacturer * Sports cars * Luxury specialty cars * Chapman as automobile racing director/designer/engineer * Sports cars and single-seater formula cars * Formula One * Chapman as industrial designer/engineer Someone with skill would then have to weave in how Chapman used racing to improve his road cars (and sometimes vice-versa). I haven't read up on it, but I can imagine that the design philosophy of a Chapman coffin would mean that it was fully capable of navigating The 2g corner. I could see having a 1950s narrative, a 1960s narrative, etc. to put in perspective all that he was simultaneously accomplishing, but I think something like the above with perhaps a bit of interweaving, would be less repetitious and more Encyclopedic.Fotoguzzi 19:31, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
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