1952 Tools and Machinery Catalogue No. 214 With Price List

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

Scarce work. Catalogue No. 214. A detailed account of all tools and machinery parts available from Gardiner, Sons & Co. with illustrations throughout, price list and conditions of sale. Gardiner, Sons & Co. is a home improvement store retailing building materials, DIY products, and garden tools. From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the ‘Journal of Architecture’.