Johnson service bulletin archive / Dealer Letter #161

1967 Johnson Factory Service Labor Rate Raised to $8 per Hour and Cylinder Reboring Prices

Johnson Motors raised its Waukegan factory service labor rate to $8 per hour effective April 3, 1967, with cylinder reboring charges of $5 per cylinder for V-4 blocks and $4 per cylinder for two-cylinder blocks.

Original Johnson Motors red Dealer Letter letterhead

April 11, 1967

Dealer Letter #161

TO: ALL JOHNSON DEALERS

Gentlemen:

This letter is to advise you that the labor rate at the Johnson Motors Service Repair Department at Waukegan, Illinois has been increased to eight dollars per hour ($8.00) effective April 3, 1967.

This increase was instituted after careful investigation of retail labor rates currently being charged by Johnson dealers in this area. It has always been Johnson Motors' policy to establish their rates above those of the authorized Johnson dealers and not be in competition with the dealer organization for service work.

Also the charges for cylinder reboring have been increased to five dollars ($5.00) per cylinder on all V-4 cylinder blocks and four dollars ($4.00) per cylinder on all two cylinder blocks.

Yours truly,

Original factory signature block

LWE:eb 4/10/67

Related publications and archival notes

The uploaded file was named DL-163.pdf, but the scanned factory document is explicitly numbered Dealer Letter #161. It is archived under the printed number.