Lister Diesel Engine Identification, Technical Information and Dating Lister Diesel Engines Identification, Technical Information & Dating Lister Petter Engine Information Database Details on over 250 marine and industrial diesel engines produced by Lister Petter Engine Illustrative Identification Picture aids to help identify specific Lister and Lister-Petter engine models Lister Petter Engine ID Serial Numbers and Dating The links below demonstrate the engine serial number patterns used by Lister and Lister-Petter from 1930 to 2000. It is important to rememberhowever that in some cases, engine serial numbers were stamped incorrectly or failed to follow the specified pattern. Technical Information for Older & Obsolete Diesel Engines Contact: Email Telephone +(0), +44(0).

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] 1867-1906: Foundation and growth [ ] The founder of R A Lister and Company was Robert Ashton Lister, who was born in 1845. He led the exhibit of the family's products to the, but on return fell out with his father, [ ] and in the same year founded R.A.Lister and Company in the former Howard's Lower Mill, Water Street in to manufacture agricultural machinery. In 1889 Robert acquired the UK rights to manufacture and sell engineer 's new, which through a spinning centrifugal separator allowed the machine to run at a constant speed and hence create a regular consistency of cream.

Lister engine numbers on engines post 1950 upto 1999 are numbered as per your engine. The first two digits on your engine number 46 = 4 decades and 6 years since 1950, so your engine is a 1996 built engine.

Marketed in the UK and British Empire as 'The Alexandra Cream Separator', its success resulted in Pedersen moving to Dursley. In 1899, he founded the Cycle Company with Ashton Lister. Robert was a pioneer of business in, and took the first cream separator in that region over the plains of in a journey made by horse buggy. Juelz santana days of our lives instrumental download. By the early 1900s, R.A.

Listers had redesigned Pedersen's cream separator, expanded its lines of machinery, was producing and wooden barrels for, and from the off-cuts developed a successful line of wood-based. 1907-1928: Petrol engines [ ] In 1909 the company acquired manufacturing rights from the -based firm of F.C. Southwell & Co. For their design of petrol-driven engines (derived from the design of a range of imported engines made by the U.S. During, the factory was focused solely on production, producing petrol engines, lighting sets and munitions.

Many of the men left for the front, meaning that a large portion of the workforce was female. After the war, Sir Robert Lister retired and turned management at Dursley over to his grandsons (sons of Charles Ashton Lister CBE) Robert, Frank, Percy and George together with A. Charles Ashton Lister managed the company's business in North America and was based in Canada. George managed home sales and Frank was in charge of buying, while Cecil did not have a clearly defined role at all, and, although Robert was the eldest, it was Percy (later Sir Percy) who had by far the most significant impact.