The catalogue contains all stars listed in the 7th Catalogue of Spectroscopic Binaries (Batten, 1967PDAO...13..119B), supplements by Pedoussaut et al.: 1971A&AS....4..253P (11), 1973A&AS...10..105P (12) and 1977A&AS...27...55P (13), and data picked up by the authors from current publications up to the beginning of 1978.