Hi Simon
I'm still not sure what theses service sheets are as I can't recall them
from my youth even though I worked in a few service stations. Those were the
days where you had to check the oil and clean the windscreen in the time it
took to put in a few gallons or else.
I'd be interested in the Silverstone one though.
Can you send an image or point to an ebay item.
cheers from west oz.
John Rowe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Lachlan" <simon.lachlan@homecall.co.uk>
To: "'Healey List'" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 3:16 AM
Subject: Commercially slanted question. Easily offended beware.
> Hi, (Again)
>
> I have a load of (mostly) Shell Service Sheets. A few are BP. Some of you
> will recall the days when garages had assistants who could (and would) put
> oil in cars. The miraculous bit being that, if they didnt know which oil
> went where, they would take the time and trouble to find out! The charts
> to
> which they ran for reference were the Service Sheets to which we refer
> here.(Chorus of Those were the days etcetc)
>
> So, I bought this box of these things at the end of a boot fair in order
> to
> extract the few that I wanted. The guy didnt want to pack them all up
> again
> and I suspect was too idle to get them back in order etcetc. So he flogged
> me the lot for a good price.
>
> Now, bonfire apart, Im stuck with the rest. Some are American. The usual
> namesCadillac, Ford and some others like De Soto, Edsel, & Dodge. Loads
> of
> British from AC, Allard, Armstrong-Siddeley, Minis, Jags,
>
> Triumphs, Rolls, Bentley etc. Austin Atlantic, Healey Silverstone.
> ETCETC.Continental names like Alfa, (old) BMW, DKW, Goggomobil(!!) etcetc
>
> So, it strikes me that this stuff must interest someone somewhere. I stuck
> some of them on UK eBay with very little success. (Ive had some Jag stuff
> on there without anyone even watching. XK150 and 150S, 140, 120
> etcetc.)
> So, either Im doing something wrong or these things are less interesting
> as
> memorabilia than Id thought. Ive been asking #5.00 regardless of cars
> interest/rarity. #5.00, to put it into useful currency is 2 pints of a
> decent bitter in a decent pub or about a third of a halfway decent bottle
> of
> scotch.
>
> So, if youre still reading despite the horrid whiff of commerce, any
> ideas
> as to how to find a good home for the interesting ones. Im resigned to
> nobody wanting such treasures as the Austin A60 Cambridge Diesel of
> which
> I have 3 copies! (I bet that vehicle was a stinker in every possible sense
> of the word!) But the AC Cobra and AC Greyhound.surely they shouldnt
> burn?
>
> Simon.
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