Thread: McPherson's Catalogue Covers by Date.

I've got mine at swapmeets and the tool sales. Ebay adds another $15 to the price with postage. I've been waiting to bid on that one currently on ebay.

So Graeme how are you working out what state the cat is from? Is it the address printed first???

Originally Posted by Zsteve

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didn't check for date but I believe this one is generally accepted as the 1937 edition.

I have three 1937 McPhersons catalogues. Two with this cover as above (note all with this cover say "Tools an Machinery"). One has Sydney on top of states list on cover and No37 in bottom corner, inside the cover it says "issued in May 1937" with the Sydney Bathurst street address on this and the facing page. The other has Melbourne on top of state list and NO No37 in corner, inside cover says "issued in March 1937 with the Collins street address on both pages.
The third catalogue has a green cover with large yellow 1937 and it has "Catalogue for Engineers and Industrialists" across the cover with Melbourne first on both sides of cover the facing page appear to have been replaced by a half pages strip where amongst the usual guff about changing prices it has "printed in early 1937"

ALL three catalogues are collated differently (ie, page Nos don't correspond with what's illustrated ) I also know that they all don't have the same goods listed. Quite a saga isn't it!
Graeme

It would be good to have a consolidated list of the Catalogues.

From the posts above I have collated an initial list:

1899
1910
1912
1923
1926
1929
1931
1932 (No 33)
1934 (No 34)
1937 (No 37 - Melb & Syd versions)
1949 (Melb & Syd versions)
1951
1955
1960 (Centenary Catalogue)
1962 (Reprint of 1960 Centenary Catalogue with Red Text)
1978 (McPherson's Industrial Catalogue)

Others
1915 (M9 Machine Tools)

Farmers and Home workshop
1914
192?
1933 (No 33)
1935

Hope people can add to the list

Graham

1960 (Centenary Catalogue) Gold Text
1962 (Reprint of 1960 Centenary Catalogue with Red Text)

I didn't realise the red text version was a reprint I thought it was a Sydney state issue. I wonder why they reprinted it 2years later??



There is also those small "McPHERSON'S HANDYMAN GUIDE TO BETTER RESULTS" in red (now pink) or blue.

And many various charts, drill and tap sizes etc.

I'd say the 1962 is a revised or updated edition rather than a reprint. I'd did have both 1960 and 62 at one stage but sold the 60.

The brown catalogue first pictured I think is 1968 (not 78) as inthe list above.

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1966

Originally Posted by DSEL74

1960 (Centenary Catalogue) Gold Text
1962 (Reprint of 1960 Centenary Catalogue with Red Text)

I didn't realise the red text version was a reprint I thought it was a Sydney state issue. I wonder why they reprinted it 2years later

I wasn't aware that there was two Centenary editions until this thread ! I had to retrieve the red one from my to sell pile! The 1962 edition is NOT a reprint! There are a dozen more pages in the gold (1960) one and they have not been collated the same. I would say that the only connection between the two is the "almost similar" front cover.
Graeme

Originally Posted by Zsteve

I'd say the 1962 is a revised or updated edition rather than a reprint. I'd did have both 1960 and 62 at one stage but sold the 60.

The brown catalogue first pictured I think is 1968 (not 78) as in the list above.

Accept the 1962 version was not a reprint but looks like a new edition from Sydney.

the brown Industrial Catalogue is undated and there is no clue of the date in any of the text. However the reference to McPherson's.pdf in DSEL74's post of 26 March clearly states that this Industrial Catalogue was dated 1978. In 1977 the industry was converting to the metric system. Although almost all of the products in this catalogue are imperial there is mention in the Metrology section that metric versions are available.

I will add the 1966 catalogue to the list.

There is also a 1924 Woodwork Tools catalogue No 6.

Originally Posted by anglesmith

Case in point, there are two 1951 McPhersons cat..s on eBay at moment one starting at a reasonable $10.50 the other at a bin of $70 My guess is that the auction will end somewhere between $40 and $60.
How do we get this thread turn into a sticky?
Graeme

I was a bit out! Sold for only $17.10 plus postage, $30 is lot less than the BIN one at nearly $90!
Graeme

Originally Posted by anglesmith

I was a bit out! Sold for only $17.10 plus postage, $30 is lot less than the BIN one at nearly $90!
Graeme

It wasn't me..I missed out

[QUOTE=gmoss;1761114]Accept the 1962 version was not a reprint but looks like a new edition from Sydney.

the brown Industrial Catalogue is undated and there is no clue of the date in any of the text. However the reference to McPherson's.pdf in DSEL74's post of 26 March clearly states that this Industrial Catalogue was dated 1978. In 1977 the industry was converting to the metric system. Although almost all of the products in this catalogue are imperial there is mention in the Metrology section that metric versions are available. UNQUOTE

Should the brown cover catalogue be 1968 rather than 1978? My brown cover McPherson's catalogue (said to be 1968) shows a page of Titan chisels that would have mostly disappeared by 1978. Didn't McPerson's go to a four volume set in the early Seventies. Or, have I arsed up something here? It sometimes happens. What with my medication and stuff.

[QUOTE=Doggie;1761215]

Originally Posted by gmoss

Accept the 1962 version was not a reprint but looks like a new edition from Sydney.

the brown Industrial Catalogue is undated and there is no clue of the date in any of the text. However the reference to McPherson's.pdf in DSEL74's post of 26 March clearly states that this Industrial Catalogue was dated 1978. In 1977 the industry was converting to the metric system. Although almost all of the products in this catalogue are imperial there is mention in the Metrology section that metric versions are available. UNQUOTE

Should the brown cover catalogue be 1968 rather than 1978? My brown cover McPherson's catalogue (said to be 1968) shows a page of Titan chisels that would have mostly disappeared by 1978. Didn't McPerson's go to a four volume set in the early Seventies. Or, have I arsed up something here? It sometimes happens. What with my medication and stuff.

I'm not sure of the date either but it's closer to 1968, I was buying out of it before I left New Guinea in 1974. The Blue of set 4 volumes (I have vol A ) was the last that they produced in the late1970s?
Graeme

This is NSW.
Auburn and Newcastle West addresses.
164on spine 264 on index.
H.