Author: Adams, William (& Company Limited).
Title: William Adams & Company Limited Catalogue: Everything for Engineers.
Description: Perth William Adams & Company Limited, 1939. Perth ed. Paperback large wide octavo, good condition, pictorial card covers, concealed staples, green cloth spine (worn, toned, spine ends little torn), black & white text-photos, tables, covers rubbed & creased, page edges toned, corner tips front cover missing (tips first few pages worn), small tear & scuff first order form, hanging hole top spine, stub of return card, some edgewear. 496 pp. A heritage business catalogue prepared by William Adams and Company Limited for the Australian engineering industry. There are black & white illustrations of tools and equipment available and their prices. This catalogue was published in 1939 and is aimed to be as complete a reference book as possible. The goods stocked and sold by William Adams are in their various branches in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane. There are four order forms intact at the front of the Catalogue. The house of William Adams was established in 1884 in Sydney. A good way to identify early Australian tools and equipment. (This is the Perth edition.).

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