Pete,
The first owner of the B&C S1 Elan was Michael Laird of Edinburgh. He was an architect, I believe, not a doctor. The new owner, Michael’s son, is Sam Laird.
You may be able to reach him through Matthewson’s, who must get a fair number of similar requests, so will, I hope, be helpful.
Good luck!
Tim
Thanks, I’ve sent them a note.
Hi Tim,
From watching the “show” I understood that Labinjoh built the car but Laird was the owner- I’ll report back if I get a response.
This very early car (78th?) had black bezels on the instruments; is this correct? Apart from that query everything looked pretty good. Considering how much had be “spent” on the resto, it looked like something of a bargain to me.
Great to see it going back to the family.
63rd by Unit No, Pete.
Yes, black bezels were period correct for the Elan 1600.
Tim
I got in touch with Edward, he had no recollection of building my car: must have been two doctors in Edinboro’ who built Elans back then. 
That is a shame. Dr Finlay?
Tim