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69 – 73 (62) Regent Street, W & T Avery Ltd, Cambridge

History of Avery's Cambridge

1861

(62) Merchants Yard

1901

(62) vacant

1913

(69) Watts and Son Ltd, timber, coal, rock and slate merchants

J D Dawson

1961

Avery’s, Regent Street — burst pipes during the Christmas freeze, 27 December 1961
It is going to be even colder than it was during most of the Christmas freeze-up when ice on the Cam trapped several swans in the water. On Christmas morning fire appliances went to St Giles’ church where a small fire severely damaged an electric motor in the organ. They were also called to Avery’s scale makers premises in Regent Street and at Joseph Lucas on Newmarket Road where pipes in the ceilings burst and flooded the premises. The Waterworks Company dealt with 30 burst pipes on Christmas Day 61 12 27 61 12 30
Credit: Mike Petty, Cambridge REGENT STREET Scrapbook, entry 1961 12 27.

1964

( 69 – 73) W & T Avery Ltd, scale manufacturers

(73) –

(71a) Warwick and Son, fine art dealers

(71) Essex House

Bass Ratcliffe and Gretton, brewers

Worthington and Co, brewers

Kirk Ltd, building contractors

Cambs Hygienic Disposals Ltd

(69) R A P Rented radio

Harold T Cox, grocers

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Avery Tronix is the modern company that has evolved from Avery’s. Specialising in weighing equipment of all sizes and based in Smethwick, Birmingham, in the mid twentieth century it had a factory in the centre of Cambridge, on Regent Street, over looking Parker’s Pieces. From here engineers were sent out all over the region to service the mechanical weighing equipment that was a vital features of agricultural and commercial life. Such equipment had to be checked annually and Avery’s were one of several companies whose engineers would tours villages and towns on a regular basis.

Peter West, of Hills Avenue, in 2016 talked about his career as an Avery engineer from the 1940s until the 60s.

Peter’s national service at the end of the 1940s gave him experience in electronics which served him well when he returned to Avery’s.

As well as weighing machines, Avery’s built other testing equipment including dynamic testing equipment. These machines were built by Carl Schenck AG of Darmstadt in Germany.