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Berry Engineering Works and Foundry - Exterior

Description: Berry Engineering was established in 1907 by Edwin Daniel Berry as E. D. Berry General Engineer. This image is likely a depiction of its first premises in Main Street.

As the business grew, it moved to Ferguson Street, later expanding up Ashley Street. All three of Edwin Berry's sons worked for the company – Frank (Frances Leslie) trained as a tinsmith, Zean (Zenas Jefferson) as a refrigeration engineer and Edwin Jnr (Edwin Horace John) as a welder.

Frank became the senior partner in the mid-1930s when Edwin senior 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.