Here are a few manuals for vintage engines and other stuff that I have scanned.  All are Adobe portable document format (.pdf) files.  I will add more as and when I have time to scan them.

Please note that it is not my intention to infringe on anyones copyright - these are mostly "out of print" manuals for old vintage stationary engines and the like and copyright belongs to the original author.

I offering them as a service to collectors of old stationary engines and they are not for resale. If you plan on selling them for a profit please be warned that every page bears the legend :

"NOT FOR RESALE - FREE DOWNLOAD FROM <WWW.OLDENGINE.ORG/MEMBERS/EVANS>

Furthermore, if you do try to profit from them an ancient Egyptian curse will instantly affect you and twenty thousand fleas will descend upon your crotch and your fingernails will turn to fishhooks!  You have been warned.

I will also not add manuals for engines that I know are commercially available such as Lister or Ruston and Hornsby. Literature and manuals for these are available at very reasonable prices from David Edgington (Lister) and  Ray Hooley (Ruston & Hornsby).

There are also some links to other excellent download sites further down the page.
 
I have gone to a lot of effort to produce good quality files and spent much time "touching up and cleaning" pages and generally making them more useable. This does make the file size a bit larger but still easy to download. Many of these are still easily readeable at magnification of up to 1000% in Adobe reader which is good when you are trying to "zoom in" to see a part on the engine.

Although I've made these manuals freely available to members of the hobby there is just one requirement involved - please drop me a note via eMail that you have downloaded them. I have gone to a lot of trouble to produce them and have done this as a free service to old engine collectors worldwide!

Is a short "Thank You" note too much to expect in return ?

 Of course there will always be people like the guy on the
Yahoo Ransomes MG Tractor list (ransomesmg@yahoogroups.com )
who downloaded my "Ransomes MG" manual and put it up in their site as his own  "contribution".

Guys, I'll never turn a reasonable request down and if you want to use one of the manuals that I've scanned then that will be fine with me - just write and let me know.

DO NOT STEAL IT AND CLAIM IT AS YOUR OWN WORK !! Rather use a link to my site - I like visitors as well.