The Ashton Valve Company 1871

Power and the Engineer magazine 1909. A couple of mentions of "new" Ashton Valve items

And a couple more pages.

20th century guide 1.jpg20th century guide 2.jpg20th century guide 3.jpg 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

https://redirect.viglink.com/?format...d%20in%20Diese

Part 2

And the last 3 pages.

I recently picked up an old Ashton gage, unused and in it's original packaging.

The 1941 Ashton locomotive gage catalog.

1941 gage catalog 2

1941 gage catalog 3

1941 gage catalog 4

1941 gage catalog 5

1941 gage catalog 6

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I recently picked up this quadruplex RR gage.

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I was recently contacted by a man who purchased an Ashton 3 chime whistle a few years ago. It's a beauty and he sent me some pictures? I'm leaning towards a steamboat whistle. What do you think?

Some of the old Ashton catalogs are available to view at archive.org
https://archive.org/details/ashtonvalvetradecatalogs

1877, the company first incorporated in Hartford CT. I recently was able to obtain a copy of the letter from the Hartford Daily Courant which is attached below along with a photo of one of the first stock certificates.

An article from the 1901 Engineering Practice and Theory

Thank you for your interest. And thank you for forwarding a mention to the S&D Reflector magazine. I have put together a "steamboat" version of the story for those who might be interested. I have quite a bit of information that I've been collecting over the last 3 years and I love sharing it.

The next attachments are from the 1914 catalog and mention the "points of mechanical superiority" of an Ashton valve.