Catalogue description R A Lister and Company of Dursley.

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Details of D3310
Reference: D3310
Title: R A Lister and Company of Dursley.
Description:

Records of R.A. Lister and Co. Ltd. of Dursley, 1892-1959, Dursley Pedersen Cycle Company, Melotte Separator Sales, R.A. Lister (Marine Sales), Marine Mountings Ltd and other related companies, 1893-1964
Date: 1867 - 1967
Held by: Gloucestershire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

R A Lister and Company Ltd, Dursley, engineers, 1892-1959

Dursley Pedersen Cycle Company

R A Lister (Marine Sales) United Kingdom Commercial Corporation
Physical description: 55 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Documents deposited by R.A. Lister & Co., Dursley
Accruals:

6472
Subjects:
  • Lister, Robert Ashton, fl 1867, engineer of Dursley, Gloucestershire
  • Lister, Charles Percy, fl 1940
Administrative / biographical background:

The engineering firm popularly known as "Lister's" was founded by Robert Ashton Lister in 1867 and was run as an independent family business until 1965 when it was taken over by the Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd. The business began modestly, making agricultural implements, going on to achieve considerable success through sales of the Alexandra Cream Separator, and later becoming associated with a variety of products, notably sheep shearing equipment, electrical machinery, the Dursley Pedersen bicycle and diesel engines. As reflected in this collection, the company sought to expand overseas from its early days, establishing branches in several European countries as well as S. America, the U.S.A. and Canada, and New Zealand

 

Also of interest are the papers of Sir (Charles) Percy Lister relating to his war-time activities as a director of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation [see D3310/7 below for further details]

 

A full account of the company's history is given in Lister's, The First Hundred Years. By David Evans. Alan Sutton, 1979. For additional background to the Dursley Pedersen Cycle Company see The Ingenious Mr. Pedersen. By David Evans, Dursley, 1978
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