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 at 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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