Mather & Platt

Mather & Platt
Textile machinery, electrical centrifugal pumps
Founded 1845
Number of locations
Johannesburg and Chinchwad
Area served
South Africa and India
Products electrical centrifugal pumps
Parent Wilo SE, Germany

Mather & Platt is the name of several large engineering firm in Europe, South Africa and Asia which are subsidiaries of Wilo SE, Germany or were founded by former employees. It originated in the Newton Heath area of Manchester, England, where they were formerly a major employer, and it continues as a food processing and packaging business, trading as M & P Engineering in Trafford Park, Manchester.[1]

The core business produces large electrical centrifugal pumps. They trade in India as Mather & Platt Pumps and in South Africa as Mather & Platt SA PTY Ltd.[2][3]

History

Timeline

Factory workers going to work at the Mather & Platt, Manchester, in the snow, by L S Lowry, 1943

20th century

Park Works, Newton Heath

Expansion elsewhere

21st century

Newton Heath site

Avro

Boiler Yard

The Plate Metal Works, also called the Boiler Yard, was owned by yet another John Platt, who was not related to the main Platt family. He occasionally subcontracted for Mather & Platt.

India

Art and media

The main entrance to the Park Works features in the 1943 painting Going to Work by LS Lowry.[7] The picture is now in the collection of the Imperial War Museum.[12]

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