Historical information

Averys Ltd was the holding company for the 32 operating companies in the Avery Group. The Group's main activity was the design, manufacture, sale and servicing of a wide range of weighing machines, physical testing machines and fluid measuring equipment. The company's history can be traced back to 1730, with the manufacturing by hand of steelyards and beam scales in a small workshop in Birmingham. When legislation was introduced at the turn of the century requiring the stamping of all weighing machines used for trade Avery branches were set up in some 100 towns in the United Kingdom.
This was the beginning of the sales and service organisation that expanded to cover not only every important town in the United Kingdom but was also established in
many overseas countries.

Significance

Historic - Railway Platform Scales

Physical description

Avery Platform Scales - Iron and glass