[AT] Other related collections question for the list

[Al Jones]

Same basic thing happened to the original IH dealer in Wallace, NC in 1974 (the year I was born.)  The owner wanted to sell the business but could not get a buyer because his price was too high.  There is no telling what he threw away would be worth today.

A new dealer came in a few years later, closed up when things got bad in the '80s.  Don't know what happened to their stuff.

Al


-----Original Message-----
>From: charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 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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>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>
>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>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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