Re: Pre War Service Index Groupings
Posted by Ozstatman On 2011/5/24 1:30:53
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I've lightly perused the Service Letters, a wealth of information there. It is loose-leaf with 3 brass, split-pin type, fasteners and over 360 pages. I don't think it's a reprint as there are no markings to indicate such. Has a booksellers sticker on the inside of the front cover which has a 7 digit, excluding the area code, telephone number. Seven digit telephone numbers were converted to eight digits in the mid 90's here in Oz. Were Kanters re-printing these before that? If so, were they still using a 3 post binding or used a more modern glued binding? Fred, over to you! Don't want to be accused of stealing copyrighted material. But, by the same token, I'm also very interested to know whether Kanters and others need/have to gain permission before they re-print the plethora of Packard manuals and such now available. Or do they re-print them because they are in the public domain?
Irrespective, my son is coming this evening to coach me through the scanning process, again!
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Owen_Dyneto wrote: Hi Mal, if that 14th-20th series service volume is done in the same manner as the same source's 7th-12th series version, I found it a very disappointing publication. It isn't a reprint of the original service letters at all, but rather material cut and snipped from them and then jumbled into categories where you can loose context and often can not easily determine what series and model the material was pertaining to. It was a laudable idea to try to organize material over several years into a single volume, but to my view it would have been much better to just reprint the service letters as they were. Still, it's a source of information.
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BH wrote:.....The inside page of that book reveals this to be Packard's Reference Book of Mechanical Information, I've found mentioned in some of the Service Letters of the period.
It seems that, rather than publishing a mere topical index, Packard decided to cut-n-paste articles from the Service Letter series into a categorical layout - set out in loose-leaf format to be inserted in a three-ring binder. I suspect that program was initiated at a time when a full-bodied shop manual had yet to be developed.
I don't know whether Packard reprinted the Reference Book in a soft-cover format, but I wonder if what you have is a more modern reprint - like so many shop manuals and parts book. If you take a look at the PACKARD LITERATURE REPRINTS page from Kanter's website, you'll find a section with:
FACTORY SERVICE LETTERS
Compilations of Important Packard Service Letters
1930-1935 $37
1936-1942 $53
As such, I'm not sure that Kev would want to scan and post someone else's work, which is still available for sale - even though it is merely a derivative reprint.
I've lightly perused the Service Letters, a wealth of information there. It is loose-leaf with 3 brass, split-pin type, fasteners and over 360 pages. I don't think it's a reprint as there are no markings to indicate such. Has a booksellers sticker on the inside of the front cover which has a 7 digit, excluding the area code, telephone number. Seven digit telephone numbers were converted to eight digits in the mid 90's here in Oz. Were Kanters re-printing these before that? If so, were they still using a 3 post binding or used a more modern glued binding? Fred, over to you! Don't want to be accused of stealing copyrighted material. But, by the same token, I'm also very interested to know whether Kanters and others need/have to gain permission before they re-print the plethora of Packard manuals and such now available. Or do they re-print them because they are in the public domain?
Irrespective, my son is coming this evening to coach me through the scanning process, again!
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