Ashworth and Parker

1956 Ashworth and Parker steam engine driving generator at Collins Bros sawmill in New Zealand

1908. Inverted twin-cylinder steam engine. Exhibit at the Museum of Power.

1925.

December 1929.

Ashworth and Parker, maker of high speed steam engines, of Riverside Works, Bury.

Engine and Dynamo set. Dynamo by Mather and Platt. Exhibit at Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry

1901 Founded by W. A. Ashworth and W. S. Parker.

1917 Mr W. A. Ashworth retired from the firm, and business was continued under the remaining partners of the firm - Mr W. S. Parker and Mr F. O. L. Chorlton.

1943 Engine for booster at Swindon Gas Works.

1943 Acquired by the Walmsleys (Bury) Group.

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Sources of Information

• The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978. ISBN 0-903485-65-6