Pollock Ltd (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover trade catalogue for Accles and Pollock bus seat frames. Blue and gray front cover with illustration and white lettering. Staple-bound. No date listed, library stamp on cover dated June 1936. 53 pages. Contains captioned black and white images of chrome molybdenum steel tube bus seat frames in a variety of styles. Images show frames on their own and with seat cushions. Products include full seat frames, pedestal frames, and body rail brackets. Catalogue in very good condition. Spine is worn in places and slightly split at the top. Front cover and first page were once dog-eared but have been straightened out since. Front cover has library stamp in top left corner. Otherwise free of marks or tears.

Paper-covered Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Unpaginated, photos, plastic comb binding in paper-covered boards with cloth spine with original cardboard delivery box. Publicity item produced to celebrate the first fifty years of Accles & Pollock, Tube Manufacturers, of Oldbury, West Midlands.

8vo: 3 pp. Lightly creased and aged, but in good condition overall. Text entirely clear and legible. Headed ''African Affairs | Book Review (Pollock)'. A knowledgeable and readable review, for the magazine 'African Affairs', beginning 'Thomas Leask was a modest elephant-hunter with a passion for scribbling. [.] he never seems quite to have got over his surprise at finding himself transplanted from his native Orkney to the land of the lordly Matabele and miserable Mashona. He was on friendly terms with that palsied tyrant, Moselekatse, and admired the unfortunate King Lobengula, who succeeded him. When Leask's hunting days were over, he settled down happily enough in Klerksdorp in the Transvaal as a storekeeper, became a burgher, and entertained President Kruger in his home.'.

Small single fold trade brochure, promoting the company's stainless seamless steel tube (about half the outside diameter of .0039" tube they exhibited at the New York Worlds' Fair in 1939), with an example of the tube and bore inserted; 13.5 cm. x 11 cm.; Accles & Pollock Ltd, Oldbury, Birmingham, n.d.[1959?].