Guy Ken's materials

Where or what did Bermuda Ken publish?

Finally, and don"t get in an uproar, but I"ve been reading and learning from you guys for a year now. But think it would save a lot of repetitive questions if the fine details, not generally covered in the books, like the information many of you have sent me on my early 1940 H was cataloged and avl in a year by year detail difference or spec file for the letter series. I do not believe this would stop the book sales.

I have scanned the M&W instructions into a PDF file that NE Cowman has graciously offed to host as I believe in the sharing and transferring of information is valuable to us all. But understand why many of you who do this as a side-income are tired of offering free advice.

The knowledge still seems to be out there, but I"m 55 and suspect many of the experts to be my age or older older. History teaches us that knowledge and information can be kept to the point of extinction.

Just interested in your thoughts. Be somewhat kind though, recovering from both back and knee surgery; suppose have been thinking about my own mortality lately.

Thx skk

I have a "real" full time job (Guy has a job too!!) at an IH dealership and have twin 2+ year olds at home too. I do my research on my "spare time" and are definately NOT in it for the money.(Anyone who does NON FICTION books can attest to that.)

There are tens of thousands of IH stories and secrets that are yet to be found/told. I don't plan to take mine to the grave at all. Just need to find the time to compile them.

Obviously I don't know your true name to search by. I'm kind of slow on the uptake.

Just assume I am stupid and illiterate. My wife does.

The materials you describe would be immense, and generally, they're still owned by Case IH, so we have limitations on us for access. There's quite a bit of stuff that Case IH has now transferred to the Wisconsin Historical Society from blueprints, which would be only part of what you describe. Case donated about 41,000 blueprints, which are now available to you by e-mailing the archives and asking for them by part number. There are some problems mounting them on the web which may or may not ever be resolved. They also only cover parts discontinued from service before 1950 (i.e. IH discontinued them from parts service alltogether, not just from using them in production.

Those changes you mention? The parts books only mention a few. The real total is far, far more, the archives doesn't have a copy yet (they haven't recovered from the blueprints yet before beginning the project.

The other major part of this is specification lists, which also run to several thousand pages. It's not an issue of putting a few pages up for the web, the job you describe is immense. The knowledge we have doesn't come from being around for forever, it comes from company records. I love the folks who state that IH kept poor records, or was loose. They've never had the oppurtunity to look at the company internal records (and it's a hell of a lot of fun!).

I don't even really write anymore-full time job plus takes away the research time. Ken writes, don't know how he does it with the twins.

It's not an income thing, it's a time, cost, and immense undertaking thing.

39, eh. No wonder your memory works so darn good. I'm actually very pleased to hear that you are a young whiper-snapper. History appears to be in very good hands!

Thanks for your post. What has Ken written?

skk