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https://haynes.com/en-au/john-harold...s-obe-obituary
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Also https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/13/john_haynes/
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If your really keen you can probably pick up a copy of his very first 'manual' that he wrote while still at boarding school, very smart young lad.....
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I remember getting a Haynes manual for my first car, a Ford Cortina Mark 11 GT, it was very thumbed and oiled marked after some 5 years of ownership
Used it for head replacement, engine pull out, gearbox removals, multiple diff removals and replacements, windscreen removal/replacement, etc etc Police in those days did not need to fingerprint you- just find your Haynes for a full set of oiled finger prints …..... Vaile John Haynes
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I wonder if our own Australian Scientific Publications that became Gregory's before being taken over by Haynes has an earlier history. I have one of their manuals for a Standard Vangard that was published in 1950.
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The US based Chiltons, also taken over by Haynes goes back to 1896. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilton_Company I suspect Australian Scientific Publications car services manuals only started in 1950 although the published manuals for earlier cars. e.g. https://www.stuff4blokes.com.au/1932...op-manual.html
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I remember my first Haynes manual. Plenty of long nights spent looking at the oil marked pages under a feeble fluorescent work light trying to figure out how to put my falcon back together...
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It appears that our own Scientific Publications (which became Gregorys) & Rellim, along with Chilton & Clymers from the USA all pre-date his 1965 Austin-Healey Sprite manual. He was arguably a better businessman though, his company now owns all of these publishers. Dr Terry |
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The Haynes Museum in south-west England is well worth a visit if you are over there. It has a few of Mr Haynes' personal cars including a gigantic 1979 American Ford wagon that must have been a challenge to drive and park over there.
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