23-08-2021, 04:11 PM
Thank you for all the suggestions but I have moved on. Regardless of who might or might not get involved, the costs were/are real and my budget doesnt allow for that. I wont bore you with all the details of our exchanges but when I got the following:
‘Soft’ materials £300
Asbestos survey and remediation (for the loan object) estimated £1000
Asbestos survey on associated move objects
Conservation supervision x 4 days
Contractor x 2 days
Object storage x 4 days
That's when I started to lose interest as I could see the way the wind was blowing. This was in October 2020. This was followed up by:
Since the car went on display in (the gallery) asbestos legislation has tightened and we comply with the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. Our conservation team suspect internal asbestos - the concern lies over the gaskets, the brake pads, as well as other electrical items. Before the object is interacted with we are obligated to arrange a survey to have certainty over the asbestos and we must respond appropriately to the outcome of the survey. There are 10 other objects blocking the car which are also suspected of containing asbestos and would require a survey to facilitate this loan.
And by January of this year:
Unfortunately, although we have endeavoured to push this forward internally, and indeed covered a major piece of work last year identifying the resources required to access the object, it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to work on this. Now with this third lockdown in place we will need to put discussions on this matter off until our operations normalise.
And despite further emails, I have had no response. As I say, with organising something like 30 other cars to put on display and negotiating them, plus a further 5 rooms of Archive material to arrange and identify/borrow, this car really isn't worth my effort. Oh, and this doesn't include the 3, 5 page survey and other documents I had to fill in before they would sanction the loan and the site visit they would have to do (at a further cost to us).
‘Soft’ materials £300
Asbestos survey and remediation (for the loan object) estimated £1000
Asbestos survey on associated move objects
Conservation supervision x 4 days
Contractor x 2 days
Object storage x 4 days
That's when I started to lose interest as I could see the way the wind was blowing. This was in October 2020. This was followed up by:
Since the car went on display in (the gallery) asbestos legislation has tightened and we comply with the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012. Our conservation team suspect internal asbestos - the concern lies over the gaskets, the brake pads, as well as other electrical items. Before the object is interacted with we are obligated to arrange a survey to have certainty over the asbestos and we must respond appropriately to the outcome of the survey. There are 10 other objects blocking the car which are also suspected of containing asbestos and would require a survey to facilitate this loan.
And by January of this year:
Unfortunately, although we have endeavoured to push this forward internally, and indeed covered a major piece of work last year identifying the resources required to access the object, it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to work on this. Now with this third lockdown in place we will need to put discussions on this matter off until our operations normalise.
And despite further emails, I have had no response. As I say, with organising something like 30 other cars to put on display and negotiating them, plus a further 5 rooms of Archive material to arrange and identify/borrow, this car really isn't worth my effort. Oh, and this doesn't include the 3, 5 page survey and other documents I had to fill in before they would sanction the loan and the site visit they would have to do (at a further cost to us).