 John Clayton, Photographer: Photographs of [the] Carburetted Water Gas Plant, Installed at the Macclesfield Gas Works by Messrs Humphreys & Glasgow, Ltd., London., Privately photographed and issued, 1916.A cloth-bound photograph album, 7.5 x 9 inches, containing 13 original photographs, each postcard size approximately 4 x 6 inches, or larger, of the installation of carburetted water plant equipment within the Macclesfield Gas Works in 1916. The album was compiled by John Clayton, Joiner, Builder and Contractor of Sunderland Street, Macclesfield, the building contractor involved in the installation, provided with a hand-written pen and ink "title-page", as above", and presented to "Mr. Angell". In very good unmarked condition, the photographs being particularly crisp and fresh. Protected in a modern handmade archival cloth slipcase, leather label titled in gilt. Overall, an outstanding record, almost certainly unique and unpublished elsewhere, of the experimental Carburetted Water Gas Plant at Macclesfield during the First World War. (Price includes postage UK) (Book ref. as-1843) £ 550.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Unique or Rare, are shown in the right-hand column. |
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