History Old receipt

About 25 years ago I was out in my driveway washing my 57 Plymouth. A guy on a motorcycle stopped buy and asked if I wanted a service manual for 1957/1958 Plymouths. I said sure, how much can I give you for it. He would not take anything and said he was just glad someone could use it. Later, I looked through it and inside I found an old receipt. It is for $8.00. It is hard to read, so I'm not sure what it was for.

 

Whatever it was for is now out of warrantee!

 

Hey @57Fury440
That is a very cool vintage receipt.
As a side note, one of the cool things I use as a custom packing slip, for certain packages is a work repair order, from an old garage that was in Maple Valley Washington.

A few fellow HAMBER'S that have received packages from me, have also received a copy of this work order as a custom packing slip, that has the information filled in, as to how it pertains to their project or car or truck etc, etc.


I bought a pad of them for a $1.00 at a swap-meet, that are aged and NOS, so let that be a cool idea, for anybody that is reading this.

Thanks from Dennis.

 

Cool!!
I may have an idea.
This looks like “Wiring”


and this looks like “wiper ???”

 

Their number's on the receipt, give them a call

Whatever the second word is, it appears to end in "eded" so I think we can safely assume the mechanic had a stutter

 

Or “succeeded”. Can’t let you have all the fun!

 

Could be wiper switch spelled a little funny

 

I think Petejoe is right about the first word. I thought it looked like wiring too. I'm not sure about the second word.

 

I have a large collection of workshop manuals that I bought from swap meets and garage sales, often there are receipts left in there. Sometimes you see something like "Overhaul generator, new brushes, bearings, and skim commutator. $5.50" $5.50! Highway robbery!!

 

Wiring something

 

I read it as Wiring wiper biled. Bad spelling. Maybe had wiper motor rebuilt and fixed it’s wires ‍

 

I've never had an $8.00 receipt in my life, some $800.00's though!

 

I almost see "wiring - (something) excited'

Maybe he was super excited about the wiring. Or maybe he rewired the gen and excited it. Either way I couldn't look sideways at something without it costing me $8!!

 

Here's an old one(1957) that was in the box for the 40 grille center-have all 3 pieces

 

My better half's father has a 46 Lincoln Continental Convertible. In the paperwork it came with was a receipt for
an overhaul of the v-12. $99.

 

Ok, here's what I've come up with ...

I agree, I too believe the first word is wiring.

The word below the dollar sign appears to say "paid". Notice how they wrote the D in paid. I still say the word in question ends in "eded". I actually think the word in question is "repaireded" so the bill seemingly states "wiring repaireded". I get that "repaireded" isn't actually a word but that's what it looks like to me and it is possible either a mistake was made or the person filling out the receipt truly thought that is how the word is spelled (or maybe they just got back from a "liquid lunch" that included a bit too much liquid). Back in the day, it wasn't uncommon for a lot of people in the workforce to have minimal schooling (I have several Uncles and a Grandfather that did well for themselves with very minimal true schooling). Keep in mind, this is just a guess, I could very well be worng

 

That also looks like a blue carbon copy made from the original. So the second word smearing could be where something overwrite on the original and made it hard to read. It's still neat to see how much difference in value of a dollar in 1957 vs currently.