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Ashton Valve only used Jessop Steel, a UK steel manufacturer from Sheffield England for their valve springs. Here is some information about the company. Catalog page from the 1896 catalog.
One such tale is that of Thomas Jessop, who was born into a steel industry family in 1804; his father had a modest crucible facility nearby.
www.westyorkssteel.com
Ashton marble or slate tablets.
An attractive way to display multiple gages on the wall of a boiler room. One of these was on ebay a few years ago. It weighed almost 500 pounds, being a large slab of 1" thick slate, and you had to pick it up.
Here's a description from the 1914 catalog. " These tablets, like those on the following pages, are some of the most attractive designs for gages, both as to neatness of appearance and economy of space. They can be furnished in any style of marble or slate desired, and the prices include the necessary acorn nuts and gage screws. Name plates and wall bolts are always extra."
A great story from an old Ashton Valve employee, Fred Casey, who worked the railroads before becoming an employee.
In 1892 Ashton Valve purchased the Boston Steam Gauge company and entered the gauge production market. Here's a bit of information about the gauges Boston Steam Gauge produced.
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I just picked up an old invoice from 1888.
Interesting gauge and testing equipment article from the 1908 Handbook for the care and operation of Naval Machinery
An interesting sales letter from 1897. It looks like a form letter with the address of the company being approached typed in at a later date.
locomotive pop safety valve circular # B-1
Locomotive gages circular # 62B-B
Power and the Engineeer magazine 1909. A couple of mentions of "new" Ashton Valve items
In the 1922 book, "The 20th century guide for Diesel operators", there are a couple of articles involving Ashton Valve products.
The link to the entire book is below too.
Part 1
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Here are some pages from the 1941Locomotive Gage catalog
Part 2 from the 1941 Gage cataloh.
I reeently picked up an old Ashton gage , unused and in it's original packaging.
I recently picked up this quadruplex RR gage.
I just picked up a circa 1895 copy of an Ashton catalog. Only 12 pages! The one for 1896 had 75 pages.
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