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* Early 20th century: new products introduced included sheep-shearing machinery, milking machines, as well as the manufacture of milk churns and barrels. | * Early 20th century: new products introduced included sheep-shearing machinery, milking machines, as well as the manufacture of milk churns and barrels. | ||
* 1909 Petrol engine introduced to the company's product range. Design acquired from F.C Southwell (London). Used for a variety of purposes including electricity generation and powering the new sheep-shearing machinery. | * 1909 Petrol engine introduced to the company's product range. Design acquired from F.C Southwell (London). Used for a variety of purposes including electricity generation and powering the new sheep-shearing machinery. Victoria Works extended to cope with demand. | ||
* 1913-1917 For a list of the models and prices of '''Paraffin Commercial and Agricultural Motors, Tractors, Ploughs, Sprayers, etc.''' see the [[1917 Motor, Marine and Aircraft Red Book: Paraffin Motors| 1917 Red Book]]. Made under '''Avery''' name. | * 1913-1917 For a list of the models and prices of '''Paraffin Commercial and Agricultural Motors, Tractors, Ploughs, Sprayers, etc.''' see the [[1917 Motor, Marine and Aircraft Red Book: Paraffin Motors| 1917 Red Book]]. Made under '''Avery''' name. | ||
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On view at Tiverton Museum
Exhibit at Lakeland Motor Museum.
Exhibit at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL).
Exhibit at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL).
Exhibit at Somerset Rural Life Museum
of Dursley, Gloucestershire. Telephone: Dursley 177. Telegraphic Address: "Machinery, Dursley". (1937)
General
- 1867 Robert Ashton Lister started to produce agricultural machinery. The family was originally from Yorkshire but Ashton's father (George Lister) relocated to Dursley in 1817, soon establishing a card-making and wire-drawing business[1]. By 1867, Ashton had become estranged from his father and set up his own business in Howards' Lower Mill in Water Street, Dursley.
- 1889 M. Pedersen, a Danish engineer, invented a novel cream separator. Ashton acquired a licence to sell this in the U.K., giving it the name "Alexandra Cream Separator". Pedersen later moved to Dursley to work in the dairy section of R.A. Lister.
- 1890 June. Royal Agricultural Society’s Disintegrator and Grist Mill Trials. [2]
- 1892 Manufacture of the "Alexandra Cream Separator" began at Dursley. Advert. [3]
- 1893 Incorporated as a private limited company.
- 1894 June. Royal Agricultural Society's Show. Pump for milk, water etc. [4]
- 1896 Public company.
- 1899 Pedersen set up the Dursley Pedersen Cycle Co with Ashton
- Made product for Dursley Pedersen
- 1903 R.A.Lister took over the River Mill entreprise established by his brother in-law William, the Lister Electric Light and Power Manufacturing Co. Formed the Lister Electrical Machinery Co [5].
- 1903 Introduced new cream separator of their own design.
- 1907 Mawdsley took over Lister Electrical Machinery Co, becoming Mawdsleys.
- Early 20th century: new products introduced included sheep-shearing machinery, milking machines, as well as the manufacture of milk churns and barrels.
- 1909 Petrol engine introduced to the company's product range. Design acquired from F.C Southwell (London). Used for a variety of purposes including electricity generation and powering the new sheep-shearing machinery. Victoria Works extended to cope with demand.
- 1913-1917 For a list of the models and prices of Paraffin Commercial and Agricultural Motors, Tractors, Ploughs, Sprayers, etc. see the 1917 Red Book. Made under Avery name.
- 1913-1917 For a list of the models and prices of Petrol Motors see the 1917 Red Book under the Avery name.
- 1914 Engineers. Specialities: cream separators and dairy machinery; petrol engines, sheep shearing machinery, automatic electric lighting plant. [6]
- WW1: manufactured petrol engines, lighting sets and munitions components.
- 1920 At the Darlington Royal Agricultural Show they had a range of petrol engines from 2 to 5 hp applied to lighting sets, totary pumps and milking machines. [7]
- 1929 The first of Lister's own design of "CS" (cold start) diesel engine was made in Dursley. The CS is a slow running (600 rpm), reliable engine, suitable for driving electric generators or irrigation pumps. Lister engines were usually painted Green.
- Production of these engines in England ended in 1987 but a number of Indian manufacturers have since continued production of "Listeroids" or clones copied from the CS design. These engines are used in India and also exported to other countries, including Australia and the USA. Recently there has been an upsurge in interest in these engines and their unique capabilities for long-term electrical generation or pumping. They are becoming increasingly popular for "off grid" or "remote" uses, partially because of their ability to use a large variety of alternate fuels and ease of maintenance and repair.
- 1926 Lister also built light trucks fitted with their engines, for use around factories. From 1926 to 1968 they built light narrow gauge railway locomotives, weighing as little as 1½ tons, typically used by small brickworks and on peat bogs. The locos were often characterised by a total lack of bodywork; sometimes they had the luxury of an all over roof supported by four corner posts.
- 1937 Engineers. "Lister" Auto Trucks. [8]
- 1937 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Floodlighted Revolving Globe, showing where Lister Auto-Trucks are used in both hemispheres, mounted on revolving base illustrated with photographs of auto-Trucks and extracts in various languages for advertisements. (Stand No. D.304) [9]
- 1944 Producing the CD, CE and 2JPM diesel engines for marine use. [10]
- 1961 Manufacturers of agricultural machinery, including petrol engines, diesel oil engines, diesel marine propulsion and auxiliary engines, electric generating sets, pumps and pumping sets, diesel and petrol driven autotrucks, multi-level loaders, cream separators, milk coolers, butter churns, sheep shearing machines, horse and cattle clippers, farm elevators, self lifting tractor rakes, combine hay makers, side delivery rakes, swathe turners, fertiliser broadcasters, harrows, insecticidal fog applicators, woodcraft and teak wood garden furniture. [11]
- 1965 R. A. Lister and Company was taken over by the Hawker Siddeley Group.
- 1986 Merged with Petter Diesels to form Lister-Petter Ltd.
List of Models
- R. A. Lister and Co: Model A
- R. A. Lister and Co: Model B
- R. A. Lister and Co: Model CS
- R. A. Lister and Co: Model D
- R. A. Lister and Co: Model L
- R. A. Lister and Co: Model Junior
See Also
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Sources of Information
- ↑ Listers in Dursley http://www.dursleyglos.org.uk/html/dursley/industry/listers/history/listers_1867_1907.htm
- ↑ The Engineer of 27th June 1890 p521
- ↑ Kelly's Directory of Worcestershire, 1892
- ↑ The Engineer of 29th June 1894 p562
- ↑ Gloucestershire Echo, Business Week, 25 May 2010
- ↑ 1914 Whitakers Red Book
- ↑ The Engineer of 16th July 1920
- ↑ 1937 The Aeroplane Directory of the Aviation and Allied Industries
- ↑ 1937 British Industries Fair Page 383
- ↑ The Modern Diesel edited by Geoffrey Smith. Published by Iliffe and Sons 1944
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE