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Would anyone happen to have any photos/images of an original binder for the Model T Service Bulletins? Over the years I have put together a good sized set of them including some binder covers. The covers came in the bottom of a box with some other paper ephemera and my question is this; What was used to hold it all together? Was it split type paper fasteners or was it the blue string (almost like a shoelace) like on the later Model A binders. I am leaning toward the blue string/lacing.

I can find images of the Model A versions (actually have one of those) and the later V-8 era ones (3 ring binder), but I have not come across an original Model T version. As always, any help is definitely appreciated.

2019 post with photos.

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A bit different but has lots of pages https://www.ebay.com/itm/235119447151?c ... gIgdPD_BwE

I have a Danish version of that Sales Manual. wonder if they made danish service bulletins, but they probably did.

DanTreace wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:18 pm

2019 post with photos.

Thank you Dan. For as much searching as I did through this and the old Forum, I did not see that thread, thank you.

dykker5502 wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:59 pm

I have a Danish version of that Sales Manual. wonder if they made danish service bulletins, but they probably did.

I don't know about Danish, but I do know that there were different Service Bulletins for Canada for the Model T, Model A and V-8. I have random Canadian ones mixed in with others over the years.

In 1910's and 1920's the average mechanic in Denmark may have had just 7 years of school and the 4 years of craftmanship education. He could not read english, så they may have made then in Danish as the did the "Ford Service" book (the museum have one).

The pages and top/bottom covers were held together with a single heavy-duty shoe lace that had crimped steel tips on each end. The lace was threaded through the top cover, through the pages, and then back through the bottom cover in a way that, when done properly, brought the two ends together and tied like a bow on a shoelace. The two laces that I have appear to be black.
All my bulletins have two folds that are folded cross ways, basically folding the bulletin in thirds. I have been told that the originals are folded this way due to the fact that they were mailed to the Ford garages to be assembled in a book, bound with the black covers top and bottom.
The last Model T bulletin published was the index of bulletins, first to last.

Did you know that the crimped steel ends on shoe laces are called aglets?

Allan from down under.

I do now! Thank you, Allan.