There were a number of good Model T repair and maintenance manuals published during the Model T era and many produced since that time. I am curious to know which manuals you find helpful.
I will go first. Yesterday at the Red Deer Swap Meet several members of our club purchased copies of "Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia" In addition to providing some entertaining reading and excellent technical insights regarding old cars in general the T era editions have a supplement on the Model T Ford. The Dyke's Encyclopedia makes a good addition to any Model T reference library.
This old one is one of my favorites. It got me curious and then I was hooked onto "old fashioned cars". We called them that when I was in grade school (1960s). My dad had a beat up copy around the house. The one shown is a better looking one I got recently.
Howard
The Book of the Ford By R.T.Nicholson (UK)
The book by Page is good.
However, the most under-utilized and most valuable book to have is the Model T Service manual published by Ford. It's amazing how many questions are asked on this forum that are answered in that book.
Some, perhaps all of the T era editions of Automobile Engineering published by the American Technical Society contain a large section on "Ford Construction and Repair" The Ford section is usually in volume 2. I am not sure in what years the Ford section was included.
This is the book I use. It is an original Ford Company repair manual 1925 edition. I also have the 1926 edition which includes the "improved model". The 1926 edition has been reproduced and is available from dealers. Does not show book-will try again.
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One of my favorites is 'Model T Ford Owner' by Murray Fahnestock. These are excerpts from the pages of 'Ford Owner and Dealer' magazine, that was written by Murray when the cars were new. It gives excellent insight about how the cars were repaired 'back then'. Two pages that I found extremely useful when restoring my '16 touring were the page showing all of the important body dimensions of the touring car, and the page showing all of the important dimensions of the top. It was EXTREMELY helpful to me.
By the way, a number of books have been digitized, and are available on the web.
For example-
1911 Dykes http://books.google.com/books?id=kaQMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=dyke%27s+au tomobile+encyclopedia&as_brr=0
1916 Dykes http://books.google.com/books?id=TTVLAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=dyke%27s+au tomobile+encyclopedia&as_brr=0#PPP9,M1
Page circa 1916 http://books.google.com/books?id=70mJeb_q19EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Model+T+For d+Car:+Its+Construction,+Operation+And+Repair#PPA8,M1
Ron Dupree
I personally like the Model T Digital Library I put together - there are 600+ manuals scanned that you can view on any computer - zoom in and print blowups of any area you want. I think the MTFCI is selling them for $99. I get nothing (it was my gift to the club for the assistance I got thru the forum) so I can be a proponent here. It has anything you could want for reference on a T. Most value for the bucks. It also gives you the opportunity to view a manual and then you can buy an original if need be, keep it clean, and use a page print from the library for working on the car and getting greasy.