Mather & Platt is the name of several large engineering firms in Europe, South Africa and Asia that are subsidiaries of Wilo SE, Germany or were founded by former employees. The original company was founded in the Newton Heath area of Manchester, England, where it was a major employer. That firm continues as a food processing and packaging business, trading as M & P Engineering in Trafford Park, Manchester. The core business produces large electrical centrifugal pumps. The brand is known in India as Mather & Platt Pumps and in South Africa as Mather & Platt SA PTY Ltd.

History

Timeline

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. The picture is now in the collection of the Imperial War Museum. The Park Works foundry was used in 2013 as a filming location for the television drama Peaky Blinders.