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Toronto: Pendrith Machinery Co. Ltd., 1919.
Size is 6” x 9”, wrappers, 32 pages. With illustrations throughout.
Condition is better than very good but not quite near fine with small chip to
back cover at bottom, some soiling to the covers.
Original 1919 from the Pendrith Machinery Company Limited, Toronto. “George
Thomas Pendrith was a Toronto-based machinist who manufactured wood and
metal-spinning lathes, operating as G. T. Pendrith. By 1906 the Pendrith
Machinery Co. was making buffing and polishing lathes plus a line of baking
machinery. In 1902 George's son, John G. Pendrith, joined the business and then
left in 1909 to establish John G. Pendrith Co., which took over the baking
machinery line. By the beginning of 1919 George was apparently in ill health as
his wife, Lina J. Pendrith (née Balmer), was running Pendrith Machinery Co.; at
that time Pendrith Machinery Co., Ltd. was incorporated. In 1921 the Pendrith
Machinery Co., Ltd. merged with John G. Pendrick Co., with the merged business
maintaining the Pendrith Machinery Co., Ltd., and with John G. Pendrick as
president and general manager. By 1966 the company was still in business, though
John had retired. We can find no data on the company past 1966 and it seems that
the company was wound down around that time.” (vintagemachinery.org)
As the catalogue title states this catalogue consists of the company’s buffing
and polishing lathes, as well as racks and boxes.
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