The Story of the Thermal Syndicate Limited, Commemorating the Jubilee of the Thermal Syndicate Limited, 1906-1956

First edition, first impression.  xvi, 48pp, plus one colour plate, numerous monochrome plate illustrations and a few drawings in text.  Red cloth-covered boards with gilt decoration on upper panel and gilt lettering to spine.  8vo.  Cloth is rubbed and rounded on corners and spine ends, a little marked and unevenly faded. A copy from the collection of the British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association library, with their ownership stamp on the title page, repeated on the last leaf, and catalogue stamp on the copyright page.   Hint of faint toning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.

An illustrated corporate history of The Thermal Syndicate, the pioneering manufacturers of fused quartz and silica ware (marketed under the name Vetreosil), widely used in laboratories, and of industrial chemical apparatus.  Along the way, it also tells the story of The Silica Syndicate, which was a separate company until merged with the Thermal Syndicate in the 1920s.