Tube-Turn Catalog and Engineering Data Number 111, 1954 – with multiple Inserts

Second Printing – as noted, “…the same in content as the copies which have been previously issued under that number. The only difference is in the binding, which was changed to comply with current restrictions.”

Hardcover, 239 pages, 9.5 x 11.3 inches

Formed initially as the Pipe Bending Process Corporation in 1927 in Louisville, Kentucky, the first American manufacturer of seamless forged pipe fittings, and renamed “Tube Turns” in 1928. In 1953 Tube Turns® became a division of National Cylinder Gas Company which is renamed Chemetron Corp. in 1958. Its history includes supplying the US Navy with fittings used in USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear powered submarine. Numerous acquisitions and collaborations followed.

Conditions: Excellent overall condition. W.M. Pattison Supply Company sticker affixed to front cover. Previous owner’s name and distributor’s sticker affixed to free front endpaper. Otherwise, unmarked and undamaged pages. Covers front and back have bend caused by insertion of inserts noted below.

Distributor: W.M. Pattison Supply Co., Rockwell Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. Dating back to 1897, a “Heavy Hardware Supplier for Steam Fitters, Machinists, Engineers, Railways, Mills, Mines, Factories and Contractors.”

Loose Inserts, tucked in the folder attached to back pastedown:

·         Tube-Turn Stainless Steel Welding Fittings Net Pricing Book, September 1946, 8 pages

·         Tube-Turn Stainless Steel Piping why and where to use it, 1947, 24 pages

·         Tube-Turn Aluminum Welding Fittings and Flanges, undated, 4 pages,

·         Volumetric Capacities of Tube-Turn Welding Fittings, stamped “Received 1948”, 11 pages, two copies

·         Tube-Turn Pressure-Temperature Ratings American War Standard, 1948, 19 pages

·         Tube-Turn Welding Fittings Flanges Catalog Number 111 Supplement, stamped “Received 1948”, 17 pages

Bound loosely inserted in front:

·         Tube-Turn chart of pipe and fitting materials, stamped “Received 1948”, fold out 2 page

·         Tube-Turn welding fittings Allowable working pressures, stamped “Received 1948”, 20 pages

·         Tube-Turn Stainless Steel Welding Fittings and Flanges, 1946, 20 pages

·         Fatigue Tests of Welding Elbows and comparable Double-Mitre Bends, A.R.C. Markl, circa 1940’s, 11 pages