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We are trying to build a complete Service Index to make it easier for someone to locate all the information for their particular car. Currently Brian has done outstanding work in building the the 51-54, and 55-56 Indexes. Over time we want to be able to extend that work as far back as possible. But to do so we need to fill in the missing content that is used to build the indexes. So in this thread we will try to list everything that we are missing. Brian and I really need some help in trying to locate these missing pieces. I have tried to purchase as much as I can for the website, but I have a limited budget. So please look through your personal collections and see if there is anything you are able to scan or photocopy to help out the website.

Service Technical Bulletins (STB's)
While we have the majority of the the Dealer STB's there are important nuggets of information that were in Zone Only STB's. These are pretty hard to find, but we would like to have them for the Website Archive and the Service Index database.

1946-47? Missing All

48T-3 (Zones only?)
48T-6 (Zones only?)
48T-7 (Zones only?)
48T-17 (Zones only?)
48T-30 (Zones only?)
48T-34? (Dealer) (Index)
48T-35? (Zones only?) (Index)

49T-4 (Zones only)
49T-6/7?, Dealer 5
49T-6/7? (Zones only)
49T-12 (Zones only)
49T-14 (Zones only)
49T-19 (Zones only)
49T-21, Dealer 16
49T-25 (Zones only)
49T-30 (Zones only)
49T-34 (Zones only)
49T-37 (Zones only)
49T-40 (Zones only)
49T-42?, Dealer 32? (Index)
49T-43? (Zones only) (Index)

50T-1 (Zones only)
50T-5, Dealer 4
50T-11 (Zones only)
50T-17 (Zones only)
50T-19 (Zones only)
50T-22, Dealer 17
50T-23, Dealer 18
50T-25, Dealer 20
50T-28 (Zones only)
50T-29 (Zones only)
50T-30 (Zones only)
50T-39, Dealer 31
50T-40 (Zones only)
50T-42 (Zones only)
50T-44 (Zones only)
50T-47 (Zones only)
50T-48 (Zones only)
50T-50, Dealer 37
50T-60 (Zones only)
50T-62?, Dealer 48 (Index)
50T-63? (Zones only) (Index)

51T-3 (Zones only)
51T-10 (Zones only)
51T-14 (Zones only)
51T-25 (Zones only)
51T-36 (Zones only)
51T-45 (Zones only)
51T-51, Dealer 45 (Index)
51T-52 (Zones only) (Index)

52T-5 (Zones only)
52T-8 (Zones only)
52T-10 (Zones only)
52T-11 (Zones only)
52T-17 (Zones only)
52T-19 (Zones only)
52T-20 (Zones only)
52T-30 (Zones only)
52T-32 (Zones only)
52T-35 (Zones only)
52T-38 (Zones only)
52T-42 (Zones only)
52T-44 (Zones only) (Index)

53T-3 (Zones only)
53T-14 (Zones only)
53T-22, Dealer 19
53T-27 (Zones only)
53T-29 (Zones only) (Index)

54T-5 (Zones only)
54T-6 (Zones only)
54T-8 (Zones only)
54T-10 (Zones only)
54T-11 (Zones only)
54T-13 (Zones only)
54T-14 (Zones only)
54T-15 (Zones only)
54T-17 (Zones only)
54T-18 (Zones only)
54T-21 (Zones only) (Index)

55T-18 (Zones only)
55T-22 (Zones only)
55T-23 (Zones only)
55T-25 (Zones only)
55T-26 (Zones only)
55T-28 (Zones only)
55T-29 (Zones only)

56T-11 (Zones only)
56T-24 (Zones only)

Missing Studebaker Service Bulletins with Packard References

319 (JAN 1957)
320 (JAN 1957)
328 (SEP 1957)
330 (OCT 1957)
337 (MAY 1958
355 (JUN 1960)
356 (JUL 1960
358 (OCT 1960)
359 (JAN 1961)
360 (MAR 1961)

Missing Service Letters

1935 and All Prior
1937 All
1942 All
1944-1945 Any "War Years" dealer service information that may have been sent out.

Missing Trade Technical Letters

Missing All except T-3047, DTL-278

Missing Service Counselors
(Service Counselors were the new name for the Service Letters starting in 1946)

None! We have them all including the Indexes!

So if you have any of the above missing content, or anything else in general, please donate a scanned or photo copy of it to the website. Those pieces of original content can't help your fellow Packard owners if they are locked in a file cabinet somewhere!

Thanks!

BigKev: Holes filled so far. They will be in the mail by the end of the week.

48T-3
48T-6
48T-7
48T-17
48T-30
50T-22
50T-23
50T-50
53T-22

John F. Shireman

John,

Thanks, I really appreciate it!

Kev -

Regarding your reference to "Missing Trade Letters...All except T-3047, DTL-278", I believe what you may be looking for are Technical Letters (printed on general factory letterhead, IIRC), which were later supplanted by the Service Technical Bulletin series (printed on their own dedicated letterhead).

Kevin, I have an original Packard Service Manual for 1946 -1950. I notice that this manual is not on the site. It is a large publication, probably 500 pages. It is comprehensive and can be useful to those with these cars. There should be no copyright issues since it is not a reproduction. I would be willing to lend it to you to scan and place in the literature and manuals section. The scanning will be a huge job. Interested?

Kev, I've got two versions of the 1933-34 Service Letters. The first is the PAC repro which deleted all the sales chatter and first pages of each issue, so really it's just the meat of the technical info, useful but not correct. May or may not be a copyright issue?

But I also have ancient Thermofax copies of the originals, not in great shape, corners crumbling and background no longer white but quite brown, and thus would require some Photoshop work to make them presentable - it will be a longterm project for me but I will start on it as time permits.

JW,

Thanks for the offer, but the 1946-1950 Manual is already here on the website:

https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/article/view.article.php?300

So no need to scan all those pages again!

Thanks,

Dave,

I think I would be interested in the Thermo-fax versions. I want to maintain the page structure of the original documents as much as possible. Plus I don't want any issues with PAC over copyright.

I have a top of the line straight-path scanner here in the office that has some amazing capabilities of taking hard to read documents and making them damn near crystal clear in some cases. The scanner is an industrial one ($2000+), and I have seen it take Oil Well Deeds from the 1890s that were hard to read with the naked eye due to the browning of the paper, and make it looks like it was recently printed on clean white stock. It's pretty neat stuff. It works really well on text documents. Will have to see what it would do with the illustrations and pictures in those documents.

So I would be willing to scan the services letter here., and then I will send them back to you with clean copies as well.

Quote:

Brian, you are of course correct. Previous post fixed.

Thanks for your BOLO, Kev.

I did a lot of research (not just for the V8s, but even beyond the postwar years) to help build this Index and connect the dots to arrive at the backstory, but I don't know everything.

Hats off to everyone who has contributed original material thusfar, but there are still plenty of blanks to fill in before we know the rest of story.

Hopefully, others will continue to step up to the plate with new donations of the missing material.