Jim,
I believe that the spirited campaign by listers writing to Haynes just
might have had something to do with it. I had contacted several persons at
Haynes during that time period and had offered to buy the rights to
reprint the manual and was flatly told that were no plans to reprint the
manual- they were snippy, as I recall. Perhaps an excellent example of
grassroots politics in action.
Jeff Johnson
'76 TR6
At 06:43 PM 2/10/02 -0600, Jim Hill wrote:
>Charlie and Linda Duckworth wrote:
>
> > Appears from the url below that the Haynes manual for the TR6 has been
> > reprinted. Does anyone know of a distributor in the U.S. for these?
> >
> > http://www.haynes.co.uk/inc/viewmanual.asp?mt=0031
>
>An interesting (and positive) development.
>
>Back in late 1998, there was an extended go-round on the Triumph list about
>making photocopies of these out-of-print manuals. A gentleman in Canada had
>written to Haynes about this and--to their credit--Haynes' Matthew Minter
>replied that "I have to tell you that photocopying, scanning etc for sale to
>third parties, even on a non-profit basis, is not officially permitted.
>However, I appreciate that you are not proposing a commercial operation and
>in practice I don't think that the likelihood of you being found out is very
>great."
>
>Subsequently, a good number of folks on the TR list wrote to Haynes to ask
>that the manual be reprinted, and the Canadian fellow (and others) offered
>to provide photocopies of the manual for a nominal cost.
>
>Several months later, it was discovered that Haynes had indeed published a
>"Classic Reprint" of the TR5/TR6 manual. Whether this was a result of the
>letter-writing campaign and the emergence of bootleg copies is left as an
>exercise for the reader.
>
>Oddly enough, the manual reprint wasn't listed on the Haynes website and
>could only be ordered by phone or mail. But after this news was made known
>to the TR list, the price of used manuals on eBay fell precipitously (they'd
>been going for up to $80.00).
>
>I do not find the TR5/6 manual listed on the US distributor's web page
>(http://www.haynes.com/na.html), but you might contact Haynes UK at
>sales@haynes-manuals.co.uk (sales enquiries) or b2b@haynes-manuals.co.uk
>(business and marketing issues) and ask if there are other outlets.
>
>Jim Hill
>Madison WI
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