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Francis (Frank) Leslie Berry - Tinsmith

Description: This image is believed to have been taken by Palmerston North Engineer Edwin Daniel Berry.

It depicts his second son Francis (Frank) Leslie Berry (b.1900) in workshop apron. It was possibly taken outside the first premises of the Berry Engineering works in Main Street.

Berry Engineering was established in 1907 by Edwin senior in Main Street, as E. D. Berry General Engineer but as the business grew, it moved to Ferguson Street, later expanding up Ashley Street. All three of the Berry sons worked for the company – Frank trained as a tinsmith, Zean as a refrigeration engineer and Edwin Jnr as a welder. Frank became the senior partner in the mid-1930s when Edwin snr began missionary work in Fiji. The business was responsible for several patents and manufactured a wide variety of metal equipment for the dairy and brewing industries and was later known as Mauri Refrigeration and Protech Engineering.