Lister engine serial number date guide for all models from beggining of production to 1951 N.B:- Types 3.5-1, 6-1, 12-2, 21-2, 30-1 and 40-4 are the same as types 3-1, 5-1, 10-2, 18-2, 27-3 and 38-4 at the higher speed.
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Lister Engine Factory Data Sheets. These are scans of original factory technical data sheets, giving all the relevant details of each engine, including power curves, weights and dimensions, options on cooling etc., plus a brief technical description of the main engine components.

R.A. Lister & Company Ltd
Type	Private
Industry	Manufacturing
Fate	Taken over / Merged
Successor	Hawker Siddeley, Lister Petter
Founded	1867
Defunct	1986
Headquarters	Dursley, Gloucestershire, England
Products	Engines
Parent	Hawker Siddeley (1965-1999)
Subsidiaries	Blackstone & Co

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R A Lister & Company was founded in Dursley, Gloucestershire, England, in 1867 by Sir Robert Ashton Lister (1845–1929), to produce agricultural machinery.

History[edit]

1867-1906: Foundation and growth[edit]

The founder of R A Lister and Company was Robert Ashton Lister, who was born in 1845.^[1] He led the exhibit of the family's products to the Paris Exhibition of 1867,^[2] but on return fell out with his father,^{[citation needed]} and in the same year founded R.A.Lister and Company^[3] in the former Howard's Lower Mill, Water Street in Dursley to manufacture agricultural machinery.

In 1889 Robert acquired the UK rights to manufacture and sell Danish engineer Mikael Pedersen's new cream separator, which through a spinning centrifugal separator allowed the machine to run at a constant speed and hence create a regular consistency of cream.^[4] Marketed in the UK and British Empire as 'The Alexandra Cream Separator', its success resulted in Pedersen moving to Dursley.^[5] In 1899, he founded the Dursley Pedersen Cycle Company with Ashton Lister.^[6]^[7]^[8] Robert was a pioneer of business in Western Canada, and took the first cream separator in that region over the plains of Alberta in a journey made by horse buggy.^[9]

By the early 1900s, R.A. Listers had redesigned Pedersen's cream separator, expanded its lines of sheep shearing machinery, was producing milk churns and wooden barrels for butter, and from the off-cuts developed a successful line of wood-based garden furniture.^[6]

1907-1928: Petrol engines[edit]

In 1909 the company acquired manufacturing rights from the London-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. based Stover Manufacturing and Engine Company).

During World War I, the factory was focused solely on War Department production, producing petrol engines, lighting sets and munitions.^[10] Many of the men left for the front, meaning that a large portion of the workforce was female.^[10] 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. E. Mellerup. 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.^[6]

Developing foreign competition meant that the manufacturing of milk churns and barrels ceased, and the over supply of second-hand ex-military engines and lighting sets reduced the company's profit considerably. The company was eventually turned round under Percy's control, aided by the introduction in 1926^[11] of the Lister Auto-Truck, used to move goods around factories, railway stations and dockyards the world over; production continued until 1973.

As managing director Percy led the firm through a period of significant growth and prosperity in the 1920s and 1930s. By 1926 the workforce was around 2000 and was growing rapidly; the company ran a 24-hour manufacturing operation, expanding its range of products and supplying retailers to around 6000 UK customers and many more worldwide.^[12] Retailing revenues were particularly healthy in Australia and New Zealand, where sheep-shearing equipment was in great demand.

1929-1945: Diesel engines[edit]

In 1929, Sir Robert died at the age of 84, and in the same year the first of Lister's own design of 'CS' (cold start) diesel engine was made. With one cylinder and producing 9 horsepower (6.7 kW), it became known as the Lister 9-1. This was quickly followed by the 5-1, 10-2, 18-2 and 38-4, all in 1930; the 27-3 in 1931; and 3-1, CD and CE in 1933. Lister engines were traditionally painted a mid-range shade of Brunswick Green, which continues to be used today by Lister Petter.

The CS is a slow-running (600 rpm) reliable engine, suitable for driving electric generators or irrigation pumps. CS type engines gained a reputation for longevity and reliability, especially in Commonwealth countries, to which they were widely exported. Some CS engines ran practically continuously for decades in agricultural, industrial and electrical applications.

By 1936 Lister was producing 600 engines across a range of 80 different sizes and types of diesel and petrol models, most of which were small at around 1.5 to 3 hp. These could be bought stand alone (many were used in the construction industry), or powering a complementary range of pumps, churns, cream separators, autotrucks, generating plant and sheep shearing equipment. The branded Woodware Works continued to produce ornamental tubs, garden seats and other ornamental garden furniture.

The company headquarters were in an early 16th-century Priory building in Dursley. In the nearby valley was located a foundry, together with a number of other workshops necessary for the production of engines and the various other products offered, including a machining shop, capstan lathe shop, engine assembly lines, and a coopers' shop. Many goods were shipped out from the nearby Dursley railway station, which was located on land leased from Lister.

During the late 1920s Sir Robert and Charles Ashton Lister had been responsible for trying to obtain payments of bad debts incurred by American and Canadian farmers during the Great Depression. Being sympathetic to their plight Charles suggested to Sir Robert that Listers should sue the banks for their money. Sir Robert was not impressed. However, Charles remained in Canada where he built up the North American business for Listers as well as pursuing other business opportunities on his own. He returned to England in about 1936 with his second wife, Doris Eleanor, and four new sons, Charles Owen, John, Frederick William and James Hugh. Although remaining the majority shareholder of Listers the running of the company was left in the hands of his first family led by Sir Percy. Arduino 1.8.10 crack download.

Before going to North America Charles had been responsible for securing bad debt in Germany for R A Lister, during that country’s period of hyper-inflation. Always the pragmatist Charles settled debt at 40% of its value in marks. In order to try to protect the value of the funds repaid he invested in German property including a hotel in Bavaria of dubious repute. Charles saw at first-hand the rise of the Nazi Part

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