Construction Co Ltd (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No date but c1940. Quarto, 32 pages, illustrated. Card covers creased and have the usual stickers, internally VG.

12pp, bw illustrations. 22x14, stapled illustrated card wraps. Staples rusting, good thus. Having starting out as an importer of bitumen for road construction, the company became one of the most important manufacturers of all kinds of insulated cables for wiring. Perhaps their best known achievement though was the PLUTO (PipeLines Under The Ocean) project which was crucial to the success of the D-Day landings in WWII. This little catalogue contains detailed illustrations of their patented junction box system (considerably clearer than the Patent Office submission).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. RARE TYPE WRITTEN TENDER - ENCLOSED WITHIN NAVY BLUE GILT LEATHER COVER ( Original ) : While the covers have a little scuffing and are very slightly bowed, this is a remarkable document and survivor. Attractive gilt decorations to the upper cover. Beautifully typed Tender on Company letter headed sheets, with red ruled borders; the opening page is addressed to Arthur Roberts Engineer Manager of the Gas Department, Corporation Gas Works, Hereford. { see image 2 }the first 7 pages are an introduction to the tender. A 7 page Index and then 27 more typed pages as laid out in the index. The most fascinating are the nicely illustrated pages [11 more} headed 'Short History of Carbonisation in Vertical Retorts', the technical drawings are inset within the text., most are in colour. The final 7 pages relates to the legal contract. Internally is fine, the covers could be classed as virtually very good NOTE : Woodall-Duckham Ltd was a gas engineering and retort manufacturing firm which designed, erected and repaired coal carbonisation plants for the gas and coke industry. It was founded by Colonel Harold W Woodall and Sir Arthur McDougall Duckham in 1911 as The Woodall-Duckham Vertical Retort and Oven Construction Company Limited. These two had previously operated a partnership from 1903 following their registering of a patent for a vertical retort and had installed their first commercial plant in 1906. In 1920 a holding company, Woodall-Duckham (1920) Ltd was established. This oversaw a number of other companies including Arthur Duckham & Company, which handled administration operations, and Woodall-Duckham Vertical Retort and Oven Construction Company (1920) Limited, which took over the assets of the 1911 company and acted as the group's operating company. By 1928 the group had acquired two further subsidiaries The Thermal Industrial and Chemical (T.I.C.) Research Co Ltd and Liquid and Solid Fuels Ltd. ( Source: Science Museum Group. In 1973 Woodall-Duckham Ltd became part of the Babcock and Wilcox Group.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

(London, anni '20), 8vo cop. ill. pp. 12.