olyslager foundation

[Bill Murray]

Just to add a bit:

I cannot yet find my entire corrospendence file with Bart (the early years) but I can give some recollections.

Best I remember, Bart started writing, on his own time, for Old Motor Magazine. I think my first issue is around 1966 or so.

As Hanno states, he convinced Piet that there was a market beyond their vehicle repair manuals and started the first of many publication efforts. I never really asked Bart what his relationship with Piet was but I believe he was "Country Managing Director" for Olyslager in Britain when he started doing the books. I know that in the first few years he maintained an office in their Head Office. On subsequent visits, he seemed to be working out of his house, different location altogether. Then he returned to Holland and continued on. I would imagine he left Olyslager as the last two times I visited him in Holland he was employed by AutoDump Sindorf I think it was called who dealt in selling off used military vehicles amongst other things.

I stopped travelling to Europe in 1989 and soon after was canned by SAAB and could no longer keep up with the research so our correspondence more or less ended there.

I asked before on another thread but anyway, has anyone tried to access his collection yet? Again, it is supposed to be at the library of the General George C. Marshall Museum at Zwijndrecht.

Cheers
Bill