The facsimile seats arrive

This week we gained the seats which are supposed to be exact facsimiles of the pre-Victor originals.

It's been a long saga; from the initial surprise installation of Victors seats in early 2013, to being one of the first items in this blog in July 2013, the pointless "survey" that same month, the long delays while the survey results were massaged, the admission that the survey showed that the new seats were liked only by a very few people, the agreement to re-instate the original seats, the discovery that the originals had been destroyed, the design and manufacture of the facsimiles, the series of estimates and missed dates and finally, we're back to almost where we started.  But at what cost?

What do you think of the facsimiles?

Facsimile- close enough?