[Bill Murray]

I just made a rather fruitless search on Google to try to get some history on the Olyslager Organization, maybe after page 5 I gave up too early.

However, I do know that the organization predated Bart's initial publishing efforts by at least a fair bit.

Two assumptions here. First, in collecting data and info for their workshop handbooks it would be fair to imagine that the Olyslager folk may have gotten a lot more than just the dry technical stuff from manufacturers/importers in Europe.

Maybe not so much in the area of photos, but certainly serial number ranges, modifications etc. Maybe more of interest to David but still of interest. Honestly, I never even saw one Olyslager manual so I don't know what they contained but the Haynes manual equivelants here in the US are pretty comprehensive.

Secondly, the Olyslager Organization "supported" Bart's efforts over many, many years. Whatever was published must certainly remain in one form or another in their possession and I would not be surprised if materiel that was supplied to them for publication but not used for whatever reason may also be in their library.

Some of the materiel Bart exchanged with me were second generation photos etc. with instructions as to how they were to be cropped etc. for publication which I am sure he had supplied to Olyslager's publication technical people. My guess is that some if not all of that materiel may form part of their collection referenced earlier.

It might be an idea for one of you folks living there to try to contact whomever is in charge of this collection to see if my thoughts have any merit.

To be sure, Bart's personal collection could contain a great wealth of materiel that he never passed on the the Olyslager Organization and that may be harder to access but at least it seems to me to be worth the effort to find out.
Bill