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nomead
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Blue binders

Post by nomead » 14 Mar 2009 09:00 am

I finally received what I had ordered on Ebay almost a month ago. Namely, two thick blue binders with the text Volvo on them, but the ring binders actually weren't the interesting bit - it's what's inside them... 8)

First, there's a binder with information on Original accessories for 300 / 480, and it comes complete with a (photocopied) letter from Frans de Bouwer, dated 7th January, 1988, which begins with "Dear Volvo colleague," ... It's mostly a picture catalogue, with one page that has a picture of the item, and the other page has a longer description in five languages (Dutch / English / Swedish / French / German). There's maybe 500 pages in total. I scanned just one example picture page from it:

http://sites.google.com/site/samlaur/Ho ... edirects=0

Then, there's a slightly thicker binder that's a 340-360 series 1985- parts catalogue dated 08-1985. This has all the parts listed that were available once in the distant past, and also those nice "explosion" schematic drawings of everything. This has something like 700 pages, and I did an example scan of two pages (list + drawing) :

http://sites.google.com/site/samlaur/Ho ... edirects=0

These were scanned by hand and converted to pdf by hand as well, but at work I have a scanner with a double-side
sheet feeder that rolls the scanned images automatically into black and white PDF files. So at least the parts catalogue would be easy to scan completely.

Just a couple questions, is there enough interest for me to scan these both, and what about the copyright issues then?
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Re: Blue binders

Post by trabitom99 » 14 Mar 2009 09:58 am

Hmm, interesting! I have the printed parts catalogue too and had briefly thought about doing some photocopying but then I put the idea to one side as it seemed like too much work. A PDF would be useful, the Dafhobby guys have done it, but it's all in Dutch ...

The accessories catalogue sounds interesting too, It'd be nice to see more of that, particularly those parts which aren't in the blue leaflet section :-)

As to copyright, technically I suppose you shouldn't be doing it. But there are lots of scans on V3M and I don't think the admin of this site ever had any problems.
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Re: Blue binders

Post by classicswede » 14 Mar 2009 11:02 am

I have parts books for the PV amazon and 140's and have found them very usefull. If someone had the time to scan them al that would be great.
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Re: Blue binders

Post by Chris_C » 16 Mar 2009 01:13 am

My dealer had the first binder, and let me spend a weekend going through it a couple of years ago. The parts guy said they were told to get rid of them, but he wouldn't. The dealer is now closed, so I no longer have access :(

I myself would be super interested, it would be great if you could scan them.
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Re: Blue binders

Post by nomead » 28 Mar 2009 01:13 pm

Right, finally had a peek at VADIS, and it seems that it contains all the same diagrams and part codes as the 1985-> binder. VADIS unfortunately has no info on older 300 models. But I'll still look into scanning the whole binder, for historical interest, if nothing else...
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