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Re: [Healeys] BN2 Original Owners Handbook

To: ah@jharper.demon.co.uk, peter.svilans@rogers.com
Subject: Re: [Healeys] BN2 Original Owners Handbook
From: ATIGHTPROD@aol.com
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:37:54 EDT
The owners manual with my car, BN1 #598 is also a September 1953 issue and  
it has: 
PUBLICATION NO. 996 printed on a small piece of paper and glued to the  
front page. My guess is the 996 wasn't even printed on the page and was  added 
later by someone gluing in this piece of paper. 
    Mistakes happen, as with my BODY PRODUCTION CARD  from the factory, in 
the C.A.B. SERIAL box in the upper left that my car is a  B.M.1. type 
written on the form.
Steven Kingsbury
 
 
In a message dated 4/20/2011 9:23:04 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ah@jharper.demon.co.uk writes:

For  those who might be interested I have 4 owner handbooks to compare

They  are as follows

Date               Publication     Edition     Note

September 1953  996       blank            1
January 1954            996/A     SECOND
April 1954         996/B            THIRD
December 1955   97H 996E         FIFTH           2,3

Note
1   Publication number on blank page opposite
2   When BMC took over the publications of these from Austin  they 
added the 97H prefix to most Austin publications.
3     This might be a reproduction but is so it is good. However the  
typeface used on the front cover is not identical to the other  three.

Regards

>Interesting observations, Jim.  My copy  of the first 100 handbook has
>"Publication No. 996" inside the front  cover and just the word 
"Publication"
>on the title page (as in your  number one), but there is NO "Erratum page 
20"
>sticker.  I'd be  interested in whether the mistake on p.20 had  been
>corrected.
>
>Seems the handbooks were an ongoing,  organic, series of publications 
involving
>error corrections, addenda  and supplements before a new "letter" edition
>incorporating them all,  was issued.  My AKD 1102B (3000 Mk I) has a red
>sticker with two  addenda regarding plugs and an error regarding the 
automatic
>choke, as  well as a Supplement leaflet for the Mark II.  My other copy of 
 the
>same "B" handbook doesn't have the Mk II  Supplement.
>
>Love the unique feel and smell of these fine old  books.
>
>Best
>Peter
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