Owner's Manual for your new Zephyr Six
[Australia], Ford Motor Company, [c. 1951]. More
Trade Catalogues
![Item #114864 Tout les Motocyclettes Gnome & Rhone 1937 ... [a sales brochure]. Trade Catalogue:...](/pictures/thumb/114864.jpg?v=1559789560)
Tout les Motocyclettes Gnome & Rhone 1937 ... [a sales brochure]
Paris, Gnome & Rhone (printed by Draeger), 1937. More
A collection of catalogues and ephemera relating to locomotive air brakes manufactured by Davies & Metcalfe Ltd.
Romiley, Davies and Metcalfe, 1966. The group comprises: (1) 5 slim catalogues for brake valves and cylinders; (2) 10 reproduced schematic diagrams (3 folding) by the company; and (3) A typed letter on Davies & Metcalfe letterhead (dated 18 January 1966) to J. Langdon Parsons of Langdon Parsons Pty Ltd..... More
Le Moniteur de la Teinture et de L'Impression des Tissus. Revue Technologique et Scientifique [Revue Theorique et Pratique (from Volume 14)]. Volume 12, 1868 [to] Volume 15, 1872
Paris, 1868 to 1872. A French trade journal on fabric printing and dyeing; it first appeared in January 1857. The volumes on offer were published under the direction of Felix Gouillon, with individual issues appearing twice a month. However, Volume 14 covers the two-year period 1870-71. Although the pagination is..... More
Reid Bros., Limited. Timber and Iron Merchants ... [Wholesale Price List. January, 1917 (title at the head of page 3)]
Adelaide, Reid Bros. [1917]. A 'Price List of the leading lines of Timber, Mouldings and Joinery'. Offered together with a similar item dated 2 April 1917. Both carry contemporary ownership details of members of the Liebelt family of Echunga. More
A selection of eleven different Nordyke & Marmon trade catalogues relating to flour milling are offered as one lot
Indianapolis, Nordyke & Marmon Company, [circa 1900]. In no particular order, the catalogues are Packers (24 pages); Sifter Siftings (No. 208; 56 pages); Packers. No. 612 (title-wrappers, 12 pages); Catalogue Number 812. Packers (15 pages); Roller Mills. Catalogue No. 221 (64 pages); Roller Mills. Catalogue No. 421 (64 pages); A...... More
Two trade catalogues for Beyer-Garratt locomotives intended for South African and Algerian railways
The pamphlets are: 'New Express Passenger Beyer-Garratt Locomotives for Algeria (4 ft. 8.5 in. gauge)' (1936); '4-8-2 + 2-8-4 3 ft. 6 in. Gauge Beyer-Garratt Locomotives for the South African Railways' (1936). Both have the label of 'Parsons & Robertson Ltd, Mechanical Electical & Refrigeration Engineers, Importers &c', Adelaide, on..... More
![Item #107861 Warwick. Fabrics of Quality. Colour Story. Third Edition [cover title]. Trade...](/pictures/thumb/107861_00.jpg?v=1550894255)
Warwick. Fabrics of Quality. Colour Story. Third Edition [cover title]
[Adelaide, Warwick, circa 1994-2004]. Offered together with 'Warwick. Colour Story 4' (cover title), the subsequent edition from 2004. Large oblong folio, 420 × 450 mm, [52] pages containing 548 mounted samples plus technical data printed on the rear pastedown. Blue-lettered grey post-binder with four fabric samples set into the front..... More
Operating Instructions and Parts List. Lawton Fork Truck, Model TFT 45 CC
Adelaide, J.A. Lawton and Sons, [early 1950s]. Offered with 'Operating and Maintenance Instructions for Lawton Fork Trucks, Models PFT 45M, PFT 68M, TFT 45M, TFT 68M, and "Fluidrive" Models. 2nd Edition'. Adelaide, J.A. Lawton and Sons, [early 1950s]. Quarto, approximately 170 leaves of duplicate typescript (printed rectos only) plus a...... More
The Albee Rolligon 7-Ton 6x6, Off-Highway Transporter
Monterey, Albee Rolligon Company, [circa 1957]. 'The Albee Rolligon Company, Inc., presents the first basically new idea in ground transportation in modern times! Albee Rolligon off-highway trucks throw away wheels and tracks ... Instead they substitute pudgy-soft low pressure air bags on the tops of which they tote heavy payloads..... More
An album of eleven 1920s photographs promoting the Shell Company in Australia
Eight of the plates depict scenes of Shell's business activities in Australia (five are in South Australia). These include aerial views of the bulk installations at Gore Bay, NSW, and Birkenhead, SA; Sir Alan Cobham landing at Albert Part, Victoria on 29 August 1926; a fleet of 20 cars used..... More
American Specimen Book of Type Styles. Complete Catalogue of Printing Machinery and Printing Supplies, 1912
Jersey City, American Type Founders Company, 1912. 'Our card index number of this copy is ... A41705' is printed on the first page. More
Aneroid Barometers. Shortland Bros. (Manchester) Ltd. [Catalogue No. 37 (cover title)]
Manchester, Shortland Bros. [1950s?]. The price-list is loosely inserted. More
The Aniline Colours of the Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik, Ludwigshafen °/Rhine [sic], and their Application on Wool, Cotton, Silk and other Textile Fibres
[Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik], 1901. A comprehensive manual to the aniline dyes produced by the Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik, including detailed instructions for dying yarns and printing fabrics. The mounted samples comprise wool (135 fabric swatches); cotton (180 swatches and tassels of thread); silk (138 tassels); blended..... More
Beyer-Garratt Articulated Locomotives
Manchester, Beyer Peacock & Company Limited, 1947. With a colour plate ('The Royal Train in Rhodesia') loosely inserted, and the ownership label of Parsons & Robertson Limited (Whyalla) on the front pastedown. Not least, the company's locomotives in Africa and Algeria. More
The British Export Catalogues (formerly known as The British Standard Exporter) 1949-1951. Papers, Printing Machinery, Stationery, Toys & Games, etc. [with the subtitle repeated in French and Spanish]
London, Standard Catalogue Company, [circa 1949]. More
Butcher's British Carbine Cameo, Klimax & Pressman Cameras and other Photographic Apparatus. 1923 [Abridged Butcher's Catalogue, 1923 (cover title)]
London, W. Butcher & Sons Ltd., 1923. More
Catalog 1927. The Road to Greater Growth. G & N Seeds. Reputation for Reliability ... [cover title]
Melbourne, Gippsland & Northern Co-Operative Co. Ltd., 1927. More
A Catalogue of Surgical Instruments and Surgical Sundries by Chas. F. Thackray Ltd
Leeds, Chas. F. Thackray Ltd, [circa 1955]. The most recent date in the addenda is May 1954; there is a contemporary ownership date of 27 January 1956 on the front free endpaper. An endpocket, now empty, presumably originally contained a price list. More
Catalogue. Muir's Proprietary Limited. ['Manufacturers of Wrought Steel Shares | Cast Shares | Discs | Cultivator Points | Concrete Post Moulds | Bag Trucks | Saw Benches | Hook and Eye Hinges' (rear cover)]
North Melbourne, Muir's Proprietary Limited, [circa 1942]. Loosely inserted is the 'Price List. Jan. 16th. 1942' (gate-fold, [8] pages). [2 items]. More
Chiron Katalog No. 10
Tuttlingen, Chiron, [circa 1936 - see our footnote]. The text is in German, English, French and Spanish. Page [xviii] contains some fine self-promotional copy, along with a line illustration of the 'Hindenburg'. 'The airship ..., an example of today's technical progress, for whose construction and complement only the very best..... More
The Cincinnati Butchers' Supply Corporation. Catalog No. A-46. [Machinery and Equipment for the Meat Packing Industry (cover title)]
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Butchers' Supply Corporation, [early 1930s]. Be warned!!! Some sections are definitely not for the squeamish. More
The colour-pictorial front panels of eleven dustwrappers of books for girls published in London by Blackie, circa 1940
They are mounted, 'as issued', in concertina-form on cloth. The spine of the first one, 'The Chartfield School Mystery' by Monica Marsden, is also present. This provides the details of the publisher, and paper residue on its cloth backing suggests it was originally tipped into (say) a representative's portfolio of..... More
![Item #129641 The Colt Co. Return Mail Service [cover title]. Trade Catalogue](/pictures/thumb/129641_01.jpg?v=1655354784)
The Colt Co. Return Mail Service [cover title]
Adelaide, The Colt Co. (and printed at The Advertiser Printing Office), [circa 1950]. A 'comprehensive list of all Stockman and Station Requisites in stock sizes'. Presumably this company was a direct competitor of R.M. Williams at the time, but page 58 contains a full-page advertisement for saddle dressing 'Made by..... More
Cotton Piece Goods dyed with Indigosols in the Jigger... Sol. K. 7 / B.e. [cover title]
Basle [Basel], Durand & Huguenin SA, [1930s?]. We purchased this item many years ago from the estate of Dr Hedley Ralph Marston; if you don't know about him, consult the Australian Dictionary of Biography without delay. More