Starting restoration of Lotus 11 Le Mans

[Bob]

Hello to all in the group. Thanks Peter for all of your work,and to
all of the other contributers. I have started to restore my 11 and
will have a lot of questions. I have owned it since the late 60"s only
to find that it has been a huge battery for all of these years. There
is a lot more corrosion than I had imagined. It was originaly a dark
blue. Can anyone tell me the name, number or supplier of this color?
Also I have not been able to find a source for the brass nuts that
hold the windscreen to the aluminum tonneau? Thanks,please write if
you have any questions for me. Bob

[Peter Yeomans]

The Brass screw and nuts as used in connecting windscreens were commonly
used for book binding work with the threaded shaft section available in a
variety of lengths to match the thickness of the paper to be bound - suggest
you try a library or someone in the book restoration game-otherwise if you
can not locate come back to me and I will track down where I got them from
in Australia many years ago (1998)when I restored my car.
Yeoey (LM#262)

[Elton E. (Tony) Clark]

On a visit to Pritchard's shop, in the 80s,  to order new front bodywork for my Eleven, I asked about those strange brass nuts and screws . . Pritchard searched around and found a few and gave them to me.  He informed me that these were very rare items, the last ones he had and there'd be no more.  A few days later, I proudly showed them to Victor Thomas and Victor said: "Wot?  They're bookkeeping ledger bolts and every office store has a bin full of them"!  
Tony in Texas

[Vic Thomas]

Dear Bob
The brass scews are made in England by GILMEX Ltd.
Try Google.
Regards
VFT