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Re: [Healeys] 100 Service Manual trivia query

To: Curtis Arndt <cnaarndt@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 100 Service Manual trivia query
From: Richard Korn <cynicbass@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 17:46:18 +0000
Cc: Healey List <healeys@autox.team.net>
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References: <517EE635.7070306@att.net> <EF0BD89C-C3CB-4DEE-8EB4-05F2D3FEFBBA@gmail.com> <CAJKrNeSgwpfjQZH2GMaVTtzkiTkGPQaZvpw6VoNV3kTvcNx6Tg@mail.gmail.com>
Interesting stuff considering I'm also a collector of first editions.
I have a 97H997D in red but only states  copyright The British Motor
Corporation 1959

Any other variations?

Richard
BN2

Sent from my iPad

On May 1, 2013, at 16:23, Curtis Arndt <cnaarndt@gmail.com> wrote:

> OK Listers,
>
> After consulting with Roger Moment, here's what we've come up with...
>
> *BN1/BN2 Service Manuals*
>
> *997 *-* *July 1954
>
> *997A *-* *September 1954
>
> *997B* - September 1954
>
> *997C* - September 1956
>
> *97H997D* - September 1956 (there are both red and blue cover versions of
> this manual)
>
> *AKD4851 - *(1959 - no month given)
>
> *BN1/BN2 Owners Handbooks*:
>
> *996  *         *September 1953  *(Apparently originally published with no
> publication number, just the word PUBLICATION in the lower left of the
> title page, and a small piece of paper has been pasted over it; the pasted
> strip reads PUBLICATION NO. 996).
>
> *996*           *September 1953  *(Like the one above, only the word
> PUBLICATION appears on the title page with nothing pasted on top of it, but
> on the facing left-hand page is printed PUBLICATION NO. 996).
>
> *996/A        January 1954     SECOND EDITION.*
>
> *996/B*        *April 1954*          *THIRD EDITION* (interestingly, inside
> the front cover someone wrote in pencil: 1B8753).
>
> *996/C*        *November 1954* *THIRD EDITION* (yes, I know that it should
> probably say FOURTH EDITION, but it says THIRD EDITION).
>
> *996/D*        *February 1955*   *FOURTH EDITION* (interestingly, this one
> is apparently from Australia as the presumed first owner wrote, in ink, on
> the back of blank sheet inside the front cover: Ron Blunt / 64 Abuklea Rd /
> Eastwood, and there is also a small, loose sticker (that was never licked
> and stuck inside) giving the address of the Austin Motor Co. office in
> Sydney, and there's also a sheet glued inside the back cover describing the
> warranty and it lists the same Sydney address).
>
> *996/E*       *December 1955*   *FIFTH EDITION*
>
> *996/E*       *December 1955*   *FIFTH EDITION* with (BN2) on the cover,
> under the 100 flash, and also on the title page, also under the 100 flash.
>
> *97H 996E* *December 1955*  *FIFTH EDITION* with different graphics on the
> cover, which I surmise to be a later printing/factory reprint.
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