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MG MGB Technical - Technical Service Bulletins

From the earliest "Service Information Sheet No. 1" dated February 1933 through the end of production, the factory alerted the dealers through "Confidential Service Memorandums," "Confidential Technical Bulletins," and like titled publications. There is a series published in England; there is a series published in the USA (and another in Canada!); and probably many more. Through many years I have had owners and enthusiasts ask me to reprint my set. First of all, my set is incomplete. Second, there are literally hundreds and hundreds of pages. Before I begin to consider making sets by year or by model, I need to find other technical literature collectors who have those pages I am missing. Contact me directly.

John Twist
University Motors Ltd
John H Twist

February 14, 2004

I seem to remember Norman Nock (Tech Advisor NAMGBR)compiling part of this information a few years back. I am not sure if his booklet is still available? Either way, this should make for interesting reading especially the bulletin for installation of the bright bits around the B/GT front and rear glass!

Regards,

L.C. '74 B/GT & '69 midget
Larry C.

Contact Tony Barnhill at theautoist.com. He had gotten a whole bunce a couple of years ago and was going to copy them for whomever would pay for them but think it never happened
gerry masterman

I would be very interested in such a project!
Rob Edwards

John,
I would also be interested should you go ahead on this project.
mike parker

John, do you have a URL address for the T series MG Service Bulletins? I would love to copy whatever is available.
Thank you.
Jim Merz

Jim Merz

I believe that publication (the #1 -> about #100)is yet available from the New England MG T Register.

John
John H Twist

John,

Have you considered retyping the service bulletins into an electronic format such as Microsoft Word? With the interest that is apparent on this BBS to get access to the historical documents, there might also be enough volunteer labor to get the typing done. I would be willing to do several of the bulletins and then e-mail the completed electronic version back to you for archiving.

Doug
D. Cook

Doug,
Having them in electornic format would be very handy! I'd like to advise agaisnt MS Word, however. MS changes the Word document format often enough that there's no guarantee that they would be remain readable in the future. Plus, it means that people would need MS Word to read them, and some folks (myself included) do not own Word nor intend to buy it. Better solutions might be:

1. Typing in as plain (ASCII) text
Benefit: The most likely format to remain readable for the forseeable future, easy to search for text within document; small file size
Drawback: Illustrations would be lost; labor intensive; risk of errors being introduced

2. Scan as picture (jpg or other)
Benefit: not as labor intensive; cross-platform solution
Drawback: Large file size (if quality is maintained); can't search for text

3. Convert to PDF
Benefit: Document format retained, including illustrations; can search for text; cross-platform solution
Drawback: labor instensive to convert

Cheers!
Rob
Rob Edwards

If they are not still copyrighted I would be glad to convert the scanned TD TSB's to HTML to post on the MGTD site. Let me know.

Chris
Chris Couper

This thread was discussed between 14/02/2004 and 16/02/2004

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