digital images

We use a combination of flatbed, wide format and overhead scanners as well as our overhead DSLR camera for large items.

CASE STUDY 1

motoring drawings and posters from the 1940’s and 50’s

Conservation and digitisation of a collection of posters and drawings for the British Motor Museum - Warwickshire

As well as the posters and drawings. We have been digitising the production records held by the archives for Mini, MG and Austin Healey. After making any necessary repairs to the pages they are digitised and then re-bound. The books are stored away and the digital images are available for researchers. This has been an ongoing project since 2013.

Gillian Bardsley - Archivist - British Motor Industry Heritage Trust

“We first worked with Lancefields after suffering a catastrophic flood. Looking at the damage, we thought we would never be able to rescue much of it, especially an extensive set of negatives which were soaked and had to be kept frozen until they could be dealt with. Not only did Lancefields help us with our insurance claim, they set up a special area within their studio to work on our precious negatives and eventually returned them to us almost as good as new. Since then we have benefited from their expertise in both paper and photographic material, more recently taking advantage of their digitisation skills, as there is no better time to scan a bound volume than when it has been taken apart!”

CASE STUDY 2

photographing a large vellum map

This vellum map needed cleaning and conservation work as well as re-backing onto archival linen in order for it to lay flat. It was too thick to be put through a scanner so we had to improvise with the camera.

It had to be backed onto the linen first and photographed while still stuck completely flat onto the sheet of acrylic. It was photographed in sections and digitally joined together. The map was then pieced back together and re-attached to it’s original wooden rollers.