[AT] Other related collections question for the list

[john hall]

It's no telling what got hauled to the scrap yard at the dealer dad worked 
at. I still remember a new truck engine block sitting in the back when they 
closed up. The truck division had closed down 20 years prior. Every so often 
they would purge the literature and put a couple boxes out with the trash. 
If an item could be returned they would. Otherwise it just collected dust or 
was sent to scrap. They probably would have saved more of the old parts if 
it weren't for having to count them on inventory.

The mechanics kept a stash of old magnetos, distributors, carburetors, and 
left over O-rings. That all came home with dad when they closed up.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 9:21 PM
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> This conversation reminded me of something I think I told on this list 
> many
> years ago.   A doctor that lives down the road from me told me that his
> grandfather was an IH dealer on the Del-Ma-Va peninsula, in Virginia I 
> think
> but maybe MD.  The dealership closed down, the old man died and the family
> wanted to rent or sell the building so they hired a fellow to haul off all
> of the NOS parts, literature, fixtures, you name it.   They just threw it
> all away.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: john hall
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 8:08 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AT] Other related collections question for the list
>
> It's a good thing you guys are that well organized and can share info.
> easily. Must have taken quite some time to organize it all.
>
> For those that did not know it, the Wisconsin Historical Society has lots 
> of
> very early IH info that includes operators manuals, parts books, and even
> blue-prints.
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:23 AM
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>
>> I've been doing that for years with Power King, Jim Dandy, and Economy
>> tractors, John, but the situation is a bit different with the products
>> from EPCO (Engineering Products Company).  They were only in business for
>> 50 years, so the whole archive is effectively closed -- there won't be 
>> any
>> additional models or literature produced. Bottom line: The archive
>> currently contains around 32,000 pages of literature, and we use a wide
>> geographic distribution of the whole collection as a way to make sure the
>> information doesn't disappear.  Those of us who actively collect that
>> brand have the ability to repair and/or restore whatever model crops up.
>> It's being distributed in PDF format so anyone can open the whole
>> collection and use it.
>>
>> The heirs of a former dealership gave me all the literature that had
>> collected over the lifetime of the dealership.  I filled the whole crew
>> cab of my pickup to move it all home. About a dozen various dealers and
>> collectors from across the country have contributed literature to the
>> archive over the years so we can make it as complete as possible.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>
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