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I recently acquired a set of oversize LP's for training. They are titled as follows:
- Getting New Service Customers
- Keeping Service Customers
- Properly Selling Service Customers
- Facts vs. Opinions
- The Keystone of Quality
- Seeing's Believing

Has anyone ever heard of these?

Yes a few of the other ones have been converted and uploaded to YouTube. They typically went with a respective filmstrip.

And lots of talking records that accompanied filmstrips needed a slow speed 16 2/3 rpm turntable. A few that came with multiple records and shorter strips used 78 rpm but both speeds were for the most part phased out of typical mass market record players I think in the 60s. If one of those speeds is what is required, unless you have an old player laying around you might need to try your luck on ebay.

Yes
These records went with a Training Film and special projector that advanced the filmstrip one frame when triggered by a beep on the record..
There were also printed versions of the training films with captions for the dialog and copies of some from 1937 to 1940 can be found on this site under Literature Archive_Service Letters, Counselors & Bulletins_Packard Service training Film Supplements
Vol. 1 film 4 on 1937 steering is one of the better ones but seems to be no longer visible.

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-Side note-

-> There you will find an assessment of the quality of Packard training materials ... from Germany.

"The Rolls-Royce Merlin was manufactured under license from Packard. What are the main differences and are the differences noticeable in maintenance tasks?

In terms of construction, the differences are so small that they are not worth mentioning. Excitingly, the biggest and most important difference from a maintenance perspective is the quality of the manuals. Here the British manual clearly loses out to the Packard manual. Be it because of the clarity or the technical information. This shows that Packard dealt actively and intensively with the Merlin, revised it and not simply recreated it. As is well known, the Packards came from assembly lines, while the British units were built from start to finish by individual teams. The British team also knew all the assemblies inside out, but this was not the case with Packard. The American documentary also had to go deeper."

Felix Ohlhoff, aircraft mechanic and Merlin specialist at MeierMotors GmbH

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The speed at which it’s digitized doesn’t really matter as it can easily be slowed down afterward using simple calculations and an editor such as the cross-platform Audacity. I used to do that very thing when digitizing our old County Board of Supervisors meetings from reel-to-reel which, to make the process faster, I did at high speed then used a formula to slow it back down. Otherwise it sounded like the County Board of Chipmunks meeting!

Thanks everyone. They are 33⅓ RPM. I'll check if they fit on the turntable though!