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  1. #1
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    Default Give away: Old catalogues 1900-1950 , magazines, books.

    I have enjoyed collecting and looking at these, but it's time to move them on, and I hope there are interested others out there.
    Anyone from Sydney please pick up from me (Inner West), so I dont need to fuss with working out postage costs, getting payments, packing and posting; I will post to others but as far as possible want to simplify that process.

    Items are numbered for reference, with a cover photo of each and maybe some sample page photos to give you an idea of the content. If I could find them easily, I chose sample pages relevant to Australia.
    Happy to take questions.
    Enjoy browsing,
    Bill

    Items:
    1. Vacuum Oil Company lubrication manuals for steam plant. Reconsidered the labels I put on the covers: they may be post WW1 publications
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    4. This is a big volume.
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    12. Two volumes, 1907 and 1914, with many excellent photos of ships using Babcock and Wilcox boilers including some with tall masts and sails, + technical info on the boilers.
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    15. Definitely before WW1!
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    17. Big book. 1946-7 Detailed illustrations of classic US Heavy Iron machine tools.
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    18. Size, weight and style similar to 17.
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    19. Australia's own effort. Large size publication.
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    20. Weber Carburettor technical manual 1967
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    Odds and ends section starts here
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    23. Model Engineer (17 or 18 of these) mostly from 1970s.
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    24 Southbend's book
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    EXTRA ITEMS ADDED:

    26. O.B. Bolton 1970s catalogue of model steam supplies

    27. Covers BC to 1960s.
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    Dibs on No 25 Machine tool operation 1&2.

    I'm guessing they're rather bulky, more than happy to pay for postage to 3162 VIC plus your time/effort to pack them and get to a post office.

    EDIT: If I may add No 21 History of Machine Tools as well

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    You'd probably get a few hundred dollars on ebay for all those books/catalogs.




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    G'day Bill,
    What an incredibly generous offer.
    If nobody else has asked for them and you don't mind going to the trouble of shipping them, I'd love to get the Tangy book, number seven and the Australian manufacturer book, number ninteen.
    Cheers,
    Greg.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kwijibo99 View Post
    G'day Bill,
    What an incredibly generous offer.
    If nobody else has asked for them and you don't mind going to the trouble of shipping them, I'd love to get the Tangy book, number seven and the Australian manufacturer book, number ninteen.
    Cheers,
    Greg.
    Greg,
    Kind of you to say, but it's not really generous - I have learned a lot from forum members over the years, so it is good to share with the people who value this old stuff.
    I am noting who would like what, and will ask people to pay for the postage when I have worked it out (please PM me with your postcode).
    But please bear with me because I will wait till more requests accumulate then batch process them.
    Cheers,
    Bill

    Please note I have found another book for the list and will try to edit it into the original post.

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    I would be interested in number 19. I'm in 3199 Vic. Thanks so much for doing this!

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    Quote Originally Posted by caskwarrior View Post
    I would be interested in number 19.
    I regret to advise that another astute Victorian has already requested that one, but I will put you down as second, should there be a change of mind..

    The remaining items at this stage are:
    1, 5, 6, 7, 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18, 20, 24,26,27

    Bill
    Last edited by WCD; 11th Jun 2019 at 11:59 AM. Reason: Found another copy of Item 7 so added to list.

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    If it is not already taken I would like#18. I could come up to Sydney when you have sorted everything out.

    Cheers, Peter

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    Oh no problem 17 would be fine as it's a similar topic. Would just like an American tool handbook

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    That is an extremely generous offer Bill, it is rather a shame that we don't (as far as I know anyway) have an Australian equivalent of Keith Ruckers scanned collection of similar books. If we did I would love to see them scanned into a permanent collection of freely accessible engineering tomes for everyone to go through. Most of us here would love to have the whole darn lot, I know I would but unfortunately there is no room for them here, but they look absolutely fascinating, and I'm sure that their new owners will be delighted to receive them. Thank you for considering your fellow forumites when disposing of this most impressive collection.

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    Default No 20 Please

    Hi Bill.

    Thanks for your generosity.

    Can I please have item 20 Weber Carbs. To save on your handling you could add mine to Caskwarrior, Ralph and I will collect it from him.

    Thanks

    Piers

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    Hi Bill,

    I'd put these on ebay, you might get quite a bit of cash for them!

    Harry

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    Hello Peter,

    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Fou View Post
    If it is not already taken I would like#18. I could come up to Sydney when you have sorted everything out.

    Cheers, Peter
    No 18 (Sweet's File on machine tools 1945) is now marked to you. I am very happy to see you if you are coming by anyway, but you really do not need to make a special trip to collect.

    Cheers, Bill

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    Quote Originally Posted by caskwarrior View Post
    Oh no problem 17 would be fine as it's a similar topic. Would just like an American tool handbook

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    Done!
    Cheers,
    Bill

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