Original Service Bulletins binder question.

[Pep C Strebeck]

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.

[DanTreace]

2019 post with photos.

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[TRDxB2]

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

[dykker5502]

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

[Pep C Strebeck]

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.

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.

[dykker5502]

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).

[modeltspaz]

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.

[Allan]

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

Allan from down under.

[modeltspaz]

I do now! Thank you, Allan.