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Smithing & Metalwork
Wiliam Allday, FORGES.
Ref: 7408
Published by William Allday.
A late 50s catalogue of 'Alcosa' portable forges and blacksmiths' hearths. Some fifty forges are illustrated with parts and accesssories as well as a variety of blacksmiths' tools.
250 x 189 mm. 84 pp. with approximately 200 b&w photographs and drawings. pb.
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ARCHITECTURAL METALWORK LOCKS & BRASSFOUNDRY VENTILATORS.
Ref: 25f2
Comyn Ching & Co. Ltd.
Published by the author
A catalogue of the products and prices of Comyn Ching & Co. Ltd. current to the year of publication. Includes illustrations of all the products some of which are in colour. Red cloth bound boards with black lettering to cover. Slight discolouring to the front cover and a few rips to the edges of the opening pages
293 x 225 mm. 136 pp. Hardback. Heavily illustarted throughout with b&w illustarations. Hardback
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Price: £40.00
Grace and Phillips, RANSOMES OF IPSWICH.
Ref: 7245
Published by the Institute of Agricultutral History.
This 1975 book is divided in two parts: 1) A history of the firm starting with an iron foundry in 1789 in Ipswich with a capital of £200.00 and one workman Robert Ransome went on to patent in 1895 the first chilled plough share and on to the manufacture of interchangeable plough parts which became a major force in agricultural engineering. In 1832 they produced the first (Buddings Patent) lawnmower. Apart from agricutural engineering, Ransomes produced steam engines, trolley busses, railway parts, and in two world wars, guns and aeroplanes. 2) Analyses and descriibes the firm's historical records, dating from the late eighteenth century now deposited with the University of Reading. Errata sheet and bookplate on front endpaper..
269 x 180 mm, x + 64 pp. 18 full page plate, mainly photographic. hb jacketed,
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Price: £18.00
MACFARLANE'S CASTINGS. VOL. I.
Ref: 0301
Published by Walter MacFarlane & Co.
Seventh edition. c. 1900. Founded in 1850, Walter MacFarlane's foundry was one of the most famous and largest of all ironworks, supplying everything from drains and pipe fittings through ornamental balustrades and lamps, fountains to entire buildings. This seventh edition concentrates on drain pipers, cisterns, and ornamental gutters, castings and ridges for baths and sinks and some highly attractive metal baths. The final 200 pp. show 'miscellanous castings' for some rather ornate water troughs, dust bins for mansions, villas, tenements etc., stable loose-boxes, wash-house fittings and electrical light fittings, lamp standards, pillars and wall brackets and examples of castings for bandstands, pavilions, railings, kiosks and shop fronts. A beautifully illustrated catalogue of the products made by MacFarlane's at the turn of the 19th/20th century. Boards bound in green cloth with gilt and black borders and gilt lettering. An extremely good copy.
375 x 270 mm. 400 pp. hb. Illustrated throughout with 100s of b&w engravrings and drawings and 5 pp. of colour photographs. hb.
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Price: £225.00
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