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1921 Boston Textile show

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1921 NYC Marine Exposition

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What better way to make a gauge easier to read in a dark boiler room than to illuminate it? I found one from around 1900 where the bulb was fixed behind the gauge, not always practical. Here's what Ashton Valve came up with.

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And these should throw a little light on the subject................

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The 1920 catalog included a few pages explaining the reasons that the Ashton pop safety valve was superior to it's competition.

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In 1900 The US was negotiating trade treaties with other countries, including France, to reduce the tariffs and sell more US goods overseas. Many US firms contacted the President, McKinley, to express their support for a new treaty. Ashton Valve was one of them.

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Information from the 1922 book, Engines and Boilers

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Ashton recording gauge circular #73

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An old advert from an 1894 periodical "Around the Lakes". It was put out by the Detroit Drydock Company , a ship building company from around the turn of the century. Here is some information about the company.Henry Ford worked there when he was 17.

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http://www.detroiturbex.com/content/industry/globe/index.html

http://oldshipbuilder.com/SMMC.html

https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/detroit-dry-dock-company

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Antique Maine Central Railroad Locomotive Steam Gauge c. 1895 Converted to Mantle Clock

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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.

https://www.westyorkssteel.com/blog/thomas-jessop-man-steel-veins/

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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."

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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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Hinkley Locomotive Works was a Boston based locomotive manufacturing enterprise that goes back to 1831. Here's an interesting file about the company. Henry Ashton, the founder of Ashton Valve, found his first job there in 1869.

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Interesting gauge and testing equipment article from the 1908 Handbook for the care and operation of Naval Machinery

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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.

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I was recently contacted by a man who purchased an Ashton 3 chime whistle at a sale a few years back. It's a beauty. He sent me some pictures of the whistles. Take a look.

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Some of the old Ashton catalogs are nw available on archive.org.

https://archive.org/details/ashtonvalvetradecatalogs

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