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Re: Factory Workshop Manual Mystery

To: "John P. New" <jnew@hazelden.ca>
Subject: Re: Factory Workshop Manual Mystery
From: "Patton Dickson" <57healey@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:17:06 -0500
That makes sense, thanks.

Patton


On 9/15/06, John P. New <jnew@hazelden.ca> wrote:
>
> Patton,
>
> It is very common to avoid the use of the capital letter "I" in section
> labels or parts numbers in the BMC publications, and many other
> publications as well.
>
> I believe this is to avoid confusion between the number "1" and the
> capital letter "I", which look identical or almost so in many typefaces.
>
> For example, in the BJ7/8 Parts List, there is only _one_ use of a
> capital "I" in over 4,000 part numbers, and, as in the Workshop manual,
> there are no sections labelled with "I" either.
>
> John P. New
> --
> London, Ontario, Canada
> '67 BJ8
> -----------------------------------------
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>    Series BJ7 & BJ8
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>
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> -----------------------------------------
>
>
> On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 09:03 -0500, Patton Dickson wrote:
> > Just to try it out, I brought my tattered old factory Workshop Manual to
> the
> > office to see how hard it would be to scan.  When I did it I noticed
> that
> > there isn't a section I, and when I refer to the index, it's not listed.
> > Why did they skip "I"?
> >
> > Patton
>
>
>


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