Who has the oldest Buck & Hickman catalogue?

Leading distributor of tools,
maintenance and health and
safety products, Buck &
Hickman, will celebrate its
180th anniversary in 2010. To
mark the occasion, the company
announced a competition
for customers to win £1000 of
free tools if they present the
oldest genuine Buck &
Hickman product catalogue.

The company, which is
launching its latest catalogue
in January 2010, has original
editions dating from the mid
1890s but believes there are
versions that are even older. It
is now appealing to anyone
who has a pre-1894 catalogue
to contact them.

Commenting on the
campaign Howard Luft, Buck
& Hickman’s managing
director, said: “In putting
together our latest 2010
catalogue we’ve included a
review of the company’s
history to-date and we already
know that many of our
original editions are collector’s
items. Whilst a lot of the
key company milestones are
known there’s nothing in the
archives to indicate when the
first Buck & Hickman
catalogue was actually
published so we are appealing
to anyone with a catalogue
older than the 1894 edition to
get in touch with us.

“We’re offering £1000 in
free tools for the oldest
edition we can identify and
the winner will be free to
choose anything they want
from our latest catalogue
range. There’ll also be some
great runners-up prizes, so if
you’ve got an old catalogue
then do please get in touch.”