Lotus Elan Workshop Manual

[zedascouves]

I'm making a copy of one, and I can put it on .pdf form. Would that be useful to the community? I was thinking about putting it up for free on my webpage.

[elanfan1]

Good idea for your own use.

Make it it publically accessible or pass it around and I think you might be hearing from the Lotus lawyers. It is their copyright afterall. Probably not such a good idea to publicise it on this forum.

Just my twopenneth worth.

[zedascouves]

The book is about 50 years old, is it still under copyright law? And are they still publishing it? Because otherwise, I doubt they would sue me.

[garyeanderson]

If you are looking to make a S1, S2 or early Coupe, some one has already done the work for you. The S3 and S4 and Sprint have yet to be done and put online, at least not that I know of.

http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/mce/Elan/Documents/

Gary

[zedascouves]

Yes, actually it's a S2. Thank you very much for the link. I'll do it nonetheless, even if for personal use.

Shouldn't this link be somewhere in the site?

[garyeanderson]

Its been posted before by me but there is no sticky for it. I guess I may have got this one wrong, the link is for the parts listing, not the manual. is this what you are going to reproduce in .pdf form?

Gary

[zedascouves]

Right, after downloading that file I noticed it's not the same thing. What I'm doing is actually the workshop manual.

[kmoist]

It would be great to have it available on-line. The Europa group has extensive manuals posted for those cars.

http://lotus-europa.com/docs.html

[Bruce Crowthorne]

Drop me a mail at bruce dot orr at btconnect dot com.

Manual is OK but do you have an S4 parts list?

[LoTex]

I would love to have the manual in .pdf. Let us know how to get to it when you finish it!

My original manual somehow went missing at a shop that I had some work done. Never brought it back there again, for obvious reasons...


LoTex

65 Elan S2

[zedascouves]

I'm sorry it's taking so long.

The machine that was doing this had a 50 sheet limit per batch, so now I have about 500 pages divided by 50 sheet batches that I'll have to put together in one file. The software I was using did it well in Linux, but when I tried to open the final file in Windows, it only showed 88 pages.

So... now I'll have to try a different tool and hope it'll work good enough in most OS's.

[Chrisrich]

Count me in as one of the guys who'll be grateful for all that scanning! Good luck!

[Bruce Crowthorne]

I already have it in scanned form (.pdf)
Can someone on here host it?
Bruce

[zedascouves]

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[richardcox_lotus]

On your own head be it re Copyrighting. I believe they are still available from the factory via certain outlets (Miles Wilkins, etc), therefore they may still under Copyright law.