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*[http://bmiht.com/collection/contributors/index.htm Contributors to the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, including a biography of Michael Sedgwick]
 

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Introduction

Autocade is an automotive database inspired by the work of Michael C. Sedgwick, MA (1926–83). Sedgwick was reputed to have a photographic memory and recall when it came to automotive subjects. This site, which takes no part of his actual work, follows his lead in providing a useful reference on automobiles, following mostly his A–Z of Cars: 1945–1970, authored with Mark Gillies and Jon Presnell. This was serialized in Classic and Sportscar in the early 1980s.

This site goes further by expanding on the time-frame and geography. Had Mr Sedgwick lived beyond his 50s, there is no doubt that books such as A–Z would have been expanded to later decades. Autocade is an attempt to do this.

Autocade is not affiliated with the Michael Sedgwick Memorial Trust.

Autocade aims to inform the motoring press and car enthusiasts and is treated as a publication in terms of accuracy, editing and editorial integrity.

What this site isn’t meant to do

Autocade is not meant to replace Wikipedia or the specialist car sites dedicated to selected makes. Wikipedia, for example, has lengthy pieces on selected models—Autocade seeks to provide primarily summaries, akin to a dictionary. The decision of the publisher is final when it comes to disputes.

It’s also not meant to replace buyers’ guides such as cars.com, Edmunds or The Red Book in Australia, nor information sites such as Global Auto Index.

Autocade may best be thought of as a research supplement to the above.

Like Global Auto Index, Autocade attempts to take the home market information as the base, adding export details on to that. It is not biased toward any one country. Many other sites are, naturally, biased toward the location of their owner or the writer.

While Michael Sedgwick’s work had a UK point of view, this site differs in attempting to be global. A British car should be written with a British viewpoint, with other markets treated as export ones; similarly, a Japanese car should be written with a Japanese viewpoint. Hence, there is an entry for the ‘Nissan Sunny (B14)’, but no entry for a ‘Nissan Sentra (B14)’—Sunny was the home-market name; Sentra was merely used on exports.

Links, of course, to relevant specialist pages off-site are welcome.

Creative Commons and copyright

Many images used on this site are believed to fall under the fair use defence in copyright disputes and are strictly for educational and informative purposes only. However, Autocade will remove any images that are subject to a copyright dispute.

All written content on this site is governed by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-profit 3·0 licence.

Please attribute used content to Autocade and, whenever possible, provide a link back to either the home page URL or the specific page you have copied from.

JY&A Media, as the initiator and majority contributor to this site, reserves the right to reproduce Autocade content under alternative licences.


Conventions and house styles

Please refer to the page ‘Site conventions’ for information.

 

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