The Ashton Valve Company’s steam valves and gauges were very successful in the marketplace and won many medals at international expositions and world’s fairs. The company absorbed the Boston Steam Gage Company in 18982, and was active in Boston and Cambridge through the first half of the twentieth century, with business peaking in the 1920s and 1930s. It merged with the Crosby Steam and Gage Company in 1948.
Related Artifacts at the museum
- Ashton Steam Pressure Gauge
- Crosby Steam Pressure Gauge made for Babcock & Wilcox
- Crosby Steam Pressure Gauge made for International Eng. Works, Inc.
Related story
- Ashton Valve Co. at Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History
- Ashton Valve at the Cambridge Historical Society
- Ashton Valve Co., from the Cambridge Chronicle, 6 May 1911, at the Cambridge Public Library