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Copper for Earthing. Sixth revised edition.
Copper Development Association. 1955 6th edition.
Size 5.5 x 8.5 inches. In pale green hard card covers with dark green cloth spine. Dark green lettering to front. 56pp. With b/w photographs and graphs. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. Small marks to boards. Else a clean and tight copy. Guidance for electricians on the use of Copper in the safe and effective earthing of electricity.
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10.00 GBP
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Explosives Handbook.
African Explosives & Chemical Industries, Limited. Johannesburg. 1950 4th edition.
Size 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Bound in original maroon limp card covers with black lettering and design to front. 87pp. With b/w photographs and diagrams. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. Else a clean and tight copy. Contents include; Story of Explosives, Blasting Accessories, Transport & Storage, Handling, Mining, Blasting in Quarries, Explosives on the Farm and more. A rare item from 1950.
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30.00 GBP
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Illustrated Catalogue of Macfarlane’s Castings. Eighth edition. Volume I.
Walter Macfarlane & Co.Ltd. Glasgow. n.d. ca1930.
Size 5.25 x 7.5 inches. In dark green pebbled cloth covers with black lettering to spine and boards. 273pp. With b/w engravings. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Mild foxing to edges. occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. The firm of Walter Macfarlane & Co, of The Saracen Foundry, Possilpark, Glasgow, were the best-known British suppliers of decorative ironwork from the late nineteenth century onwards. This volume provides hundreds of illustrations of pipes, gutters and decorative rainwater heads available from stock, and is in a larger format than earlier editions.. Many engravings of castings including rain-water pipes, heads, soil and ventilation pipes, drain pipes, hot-water pipes, gutters.
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55.00 GBP
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Ship Wiring Cables. Rubber insulated. Publication No.S.S.100, September 1938.
Johnson & Phillips Ltd. London. 1938
8.5" x 11.0". In dark blue hard card covers with black cloth spine.With gilt/blue lettering and vignette to front. 36pp. With tables and tab index. In very good condition. Handling marks to boards. Else a clean and tight copy. "The cables listed in this catalogue are made and tested in accordance with the standards and formulae of the Cable Makers Association, and combine the experience of the past with the latest achievements in scientific research, proved befoire adoption....each type of cable has an individual reference number, common to all Members of the Cable Makers Association."
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18.00 GBP
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The Colliery Cables Handbook. Volume I. Paper insulated cables to B.S.760:1943.
London. The Cable Makers Association. n.d. ca1943
Tall 8vo. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. 87pp. With photographs, diagrams, graphs etc. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Slightly warped. Small marks to boards. Inscription to front endpaper. publisher’s compliments slip loose in front. Else a clean and tight copy. Regulations and standards for use of electric cable in coal mines.
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14.00 GBP
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ANON: Copper for Bus-Bar Purposes.
London. The Copper Development Association. 1937 repr.
Tall 8vo. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. 162pp. With photographs, diagrams, graphs etc. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Corners slightly bumped. Else a clean and tight copy. Bus-bars form a common junction between two or more circuits and are a potential source of heat and energy loss. This book explains how they are made to the optimum specifications for heat reduction and energy conservation.
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18.00 GBP
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ANON: Copper in Instrumentation.
Copper Development Association. 1955 3rd imp.
Tall 8vo. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. 151pp. With b/w photographs, line drawings and diagrams. In near fine condition. Spine slightly darkened. Else a very clean and tight copy. The use of copper in pressure and strain-responsive instruments.
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10.00 GBP
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Anon: The Amateur Mechanic's workshop: a treatise containing plain and concise directions for the manipulation of wood and metals, including casting, forging, brazing, soldering, and carpentry.
Trubner & Co. 1880
In original purple cloth covers with gilt to spine and front, blind embossed pattern to back and front. 148pp. Prof. ills. with b/w engravings, diagrams. Two fold out engraved illustrations at back. 58 pp publisher’s catalogue. In good condition. Spine faded and slightly bumped at top and bottom with small tear to top edge. Marks to covers. Marks to endpapers. Written by the author of ‘The Lathe and it’s Uses’, this is intended as a handy book of hints for the amateur’s workshop. Includes working with wood and metal. Subjects covered include brazing, casting, drilling, forging, turning, lathes, cutting, polishing, staining, welding.
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32.00 GBP
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BONNEY, G.E.: The Electro - Platers ' Handbook. A Practical Manual for Amateurs & Young Students in Electro-Metallurgy
Whittaker & Co 1891
In original blue cloth covers with black to spine and front. 208pp. plus 4pp advertisements. Prof. ills. with b/w illustrations, diagrams, line drawings. Portrait frontispiece of M.Faraday with tissue guard. In good condition. Spine darkened and slightly rubbed at edges. Marks on spine and covers. Mild foxing to fore edge. Booksellers stamp to front endplate. Slight browning to endpapers. Some small marks on a couple of inside pages. Else clean and tight copy. A guide for amateur electro-platers. It supposes the workman to have an elementary acquaintance with electrical science. Gives hints on the choice, management, and care of electro-plating dynamos. How to plate with silver, gold, nickel, copper, alloys, zinc, tin, iron.
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23.00 GBP
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BOTTONE, S.R.: Electro-motors, how made and how used. A handbook for Amateurs and Practical Men.
Whittaker 1896
In original blue cloth covers with black to spine and covers. 164pp. Prof. ills. with b/w diagrams and line drawings. publisher’s advertisements to endpapers. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Small marks to covers. Mild foxing to fore edge. One pencil annotation found in text. Else clean and tight. Described as a book for amateurs, now in it’s third edition. "The rapid strides made in perfecting motors of the alternating current type, have necessitated a careful revision of those portions of this work whoich treat of such."
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25.00 GBP
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CRESSY, EDWARD: A Hundred Years of Mechanical Engineering. With 157 Illustrations.
Duckworth. London. 1937 1st edition.
Size 5.5 x 8.5 inches. In full calf leather prize binding with gilt to maroon morocco title labels, and elaborate gilt decor to spine. R.A.F. crest and date in gilt to front. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. 340pp. With b/w photo plates and line drawings in text. In very good condition. Spine slightly rubbed. Handling marks to boards. Prze bookplate to front endpaper, dated July 1939. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. The story of Mechical Engineering, from Newcomen Engines to Rolls Royce aero engines. Awarded from the School of Technical Training (Apprentices) RAF Halton in 1939.
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45.00 GBP
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