Service Letters

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Service Letters & Counselors

In 1926 Packard Motor Car Company started to issue Service letters to its Authorized Distributors and Dealerships the name was changed later to Service Counselors. In 30's Packard also sent some of these bulletins independent repair facilities. Over the years the look changed especially when Packard merged with Studebaker in the 1950's. When Packard ceased to production Studebaker started to send out the service information to the technicians in the field.

We are only going to post up to 1959 since most references to Packard's were dropped before that date and the vehicles would have gone out of warranty by then. If any references to Packard show up in later service letters we will post those too.

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1934

January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December

1935

Vol-9 #1	Vol-9 #3	Vol-9 #5	Vol-9 #7	Vol-9 #9	Vol-9 #11	Vol-9 #13	Vol9 #15	Vol-9 #17	Vol-9 #19	Vol-9 #21	Vol-9 #23
Vol-9 #2	Vol-9 #4	Vol-9 #6	Vol-9 #8	Vol-9 #10	Vol-9 #12	Vol-9 #14	Vol-9 #16	Vol-9 #18	Vol-9 #20	Vol-9 #22	Vol-9 #24

1936

Vol-10 #1	Vol-10 #3	Vol-10 #5	Vol-10 #7	Vol-10 #9	Vol-10 #11	Vol-10 #13	Vol-10 #15	Vol-10 #17	Vol-10 #19	Vol-10 #21	Vol-10 #23
Vol-10 #2	Vol-10 #4	Vol-10 #6	Vol-10 #8	Vol-10 #10	Vol-10 #12	Vol-10 #14	Vol-10 #16	Vol-10 #18	Vol-10 #20	Vol-10 #22	Vol-10 #24

1937

Vol-11 #1	Vol-11 #3	Vol-11 #5	Vol-11 #7	Vol-11 #9		Vol-11 #13	Vol-11 #15	Vol-11 #17	Vol-11 #19	Vol-11 #21	Vol-11 #23
Vol-11 #2	Vol-11 #4	Vol-11 #6	Vol-11 #8	Vol-11 #10	Vol-11 #12	Vol-11 #14	Vol-11 #16	Vol-11 #18	Vol-11 #20	Vol-11 #22	Vol-11 #24

1938

Vol-12 #1	Vol-12 #3	Vol-12 #5	Vol-12 #7	Vol-12 #9		Vol-12 #13	Vol-12 #15	Vol-12 #17	Vol-12 #19	Vol-12 #21
Vol-12 #2		Vol-12 #6	Vol-12 #8	Vol-12 #10	Vol-12 #12	Vol-12 #14	Vol-12 #16	Vol-12 #18	Vol-12 #20		Vol-12 #24 Sp. Edit.

1939

Vol-13 #1	Vol-13 #3	Vol-13 #5	Vol-13 #7	Vol-13 #9	Vol-13 #11	Vol-13 #13	Vol-13 #15	Vol-13 #17	Vol-13 #19	Vol-13 #21
Vol-13 #2	Vol-13 #4	Vol-13 #6	Vol-13 #8	Vol-13 #10	Vol-13 #12	Vol-13 #14	Vol-13 #16	Vol-13 #18	Vol-13 #20

1940

Vol-14#1									Vol-14#19
Vol-14#2	Vol-14#4		Vol-14#8				Vol-14#16		Vol-14#20

1941

							Vol-15 #15	Vol-15 #17	Vol-15 #19
			Vol-15 #8			Vol-15 #14	Vol-15 #16		Vol-15 #20

1942

Vol-16 #1								Vol-16 #17
				Vol-16 #10			Vol-16 #16			Vol-16 #22

1943

January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
		Vol-17 #5	Vol-17 #7

Packard Now Changes Title to: Service Counselor

1944

	Vol-18 #2

1945

						Vol-19 #7

1946

1947

Index 1-47 to 7-47

				Vol21-#9		Vol21-#13		Vol21-#17	Vol21-#19		Vol21-#23
	Vol21-#4							Vol21-#18	Vol21-#20	Vol21-#22

1948

Vol22-#1	Vol22-#2	Vol22-#3	Vol22-#5	Vol22-#7	Vol22-#8	Vol22-#9	Vol22-#10		Vol22-#12	Vol22-#13	Vol22-#14
		Vol22-#4	Vol22-#6

1949

1950

1950 Index

Vol24-#1

Vol24-#2

Vol24-#3

Vol24-#4

Vol24-#5

Vol24-#6

Vol24-#7

Vol24-#8

Vol24-#9

Vol24-#10

Vol24-#11

Vol24-#12

1951

1951 Index

January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
Vol25-#1	Vol25-#2	Vol25-#3	Vol25-#4	Vol25-#5	Vol25-#6	Vol25-#7	Vol25-#8	Vol25-#9	Vol25-#10	Vol25-#12	Vol25-#14
									Vol25-#11	Vol25-#13

1952

1953

Vol27#1

Vol27#2

Vol27#3

Vol27#4

Vol27#7

Vol27#8

Vol27#9

Vol27#10

Vol27#12

1954

1954 Index

Vol28#1

Vol27#2

1955

Vol-29 #1	Vol-29 #2	Vol-29 #3	Vol-29 #4	Vol-29 #5	Vol-29 #6	Vol-29 #7	Vol-29 #8	Vol-29 #9	Vol-29 #10	Vol-29 #11	Vol-29 #13
										Vol-29 #12

1956 The Last From Packard Motor Car Company

Vol-30 #9

* Note: We first scanned these items at 8 bit color, after some review. It was found that items were not as clear as we wanted them. So we are rescanning all these items to 24 bit which will help with the display of the service letters. This is going to take some time, thank you for your patience.

1956 Studebaker now incorporates Packard information

January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December

			No.312	No.314	No. 315			No. 318
			No. 313

1957

No. 319	No. 321	No. 322		No. 324	No. 325	No. 326				No. 331
No. 320

The first M-B Service Information is sent to the all S/P franchises starting in December 1956 and January 1957 . We will post 1957 and 1958 so you can get a taste of what was going on at South Bend and at the dealer level.

1958 Mercedes-Benz Service Letters start *Note: not in monthly sequence

	2			4b	5		7
DB-X 1	DB-X 2	DB-X 3	DB-X 4	DB-X 5	DB-X 6	DB-X 7	DB-X 8
DB-1d	DB-1e	DB-1f	DB-1g	DB-2a	DB-10	DB-11	DB-12	DB-13	DB-18	DB-23	DB-25

1958 Studebaker

	No. 334

1959

		No. 344	No. 346	No. 347	No. 348		No. 349				No. 350
		No. 345

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