This specific pocket-sized reference catalog was widely used by machinists, toolmakers, and hardware distributors right around the start of World War II.
The pages provided show:
- The Index to Sections: A breakdown of their primary offerings including Taps, Dies, Gages, Drills, Screw Extractors, Reamers, Screw Plates, and Pipe Tools. (It also includes a local purple distributor stamp from Beals, McCarthy & Rogers in Buffalo, N.Y.).
- Corporate Background: Overview pages detailing "The Organization" (an amalgamation of 11 manufacturing concerns) along with photographs of their primary industrial plants, regional branch offices, warehouses, and precision thread-grinding departments.
- Product Listings: Illustrated size and price tables for item lines like GTD Tap Wrenches, Cylindrical Plug Gages, Expansion Hand Reamers, and their famous "Little Giant" Screw Plates.