Description
Catalogue, "Southern Cross / Catalogue / Southern Cross Windmill / Company Limited / Catalogue S August, 1930", and newspaper clippings, letter and leaflets, paper, Southern Cross Windmill Company Limited, Australia, printed by Jos Stone Ltd, Toowoomba, Queensland, also a leaflet for galvanised iron products sold by F W Williams & Company Pty Limited, Sydney, NSW, part of shop catalogues and swatch books, Wong family, Australia, 1930-1940
Paperback catalogue with 88 pages. The cover is red and printed in black with company details and an image of a windmill, paddock and sky. Inside are details of offices in Queensland, New South Wales, West Australia, Victoria and South Australia. The products in the catalogue are windmills, pumps, engines, winches, irrigation systems, windmill tools, valves and taps, kitchen and bathroom fittings, troughs, tanks, piping and tools for piping, cross steel buildings and well drilling tools. A newspaper clipping "SMH Nov 16 1940 / WATER BORES IN SYDNEY." is adhered to the last page. Loose between the pages are - a newspaper clipping "Bulletin Nov 20 1940...One of the geological marvels of the western side of the continent is its underground water.....", a letter from the Southern Cross Windmill Co Ltd "Dear Sir/s / We are enclosing this with one of our / latest catalogues....", a leaflet giving details of the companies 60 years experience" and a leaflet detailing the reduced price of a farm pump engine, annotated by hand "Feb 1931". Also stored within the pages of the catalogue is a leaflet, printed in black with detailed of galvanised iron and products sold by the iron merchants F. W. Williams & Company Pty Ltd. It is annotated by hand with "22 Oct 1940"