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Kaputei new town centre stage in Kenya's reconstruction. The first 300 houses are already roofed.

New schools open across Malawi. This is Mkwalawanjobvu Primary School, Ntchisi District. (Photo courtesy DfID)

Thousands of new classrooms in West and Southern Africa have roofs clad with Parry tiles.
Pictured above is a school in Ntcheu District, Malawi.

Training workshop in Freetown, Sierra Leone - with ex-combatants learning to manufacture micro-concrete tiles under a Commonwealth programme. Rural production workshop at Waterloo, Sierra Leone - equipped with Parry machines and moulds, producing semi sheet roofing. (pdf specification)
Semisheet Starter Pack
Ghanaian brickmaker using Parry Type 'E' press to mould clay bricks.
Clay Products

Lady tile maker in Nicaragua, Central America - using small format vibrating table to make Pantiles. (pdf specification)
Pantile Starter Pack
Workshop in Northern Honduras making hollow blocks using Parry multivibes and steel block moulds.
Hollow Wall Block Starter Pack
Production staff at the Zambian copper belt, outside their micro-concrete tile plant.

Ex-rebels, 'swordsmen turned ploughmen' take delivery of their new Parry tile plant in Freetown. Construction workers receiving training from experienced Parry technician in accurate roof truss fabrication. Trainee roof constructors installing Parry semi sheets. (pdf specification)
Semisheet Starter Pack
Training in quality control in Azerbaijan, subjecting micro-concrete roofing tile to loading test.

'I' shaped concrete paving bricks of the type made of Parry multi-product manufacturing plants. Use of vibrated concrete paving slabs providing smart, clean surround to modern house in Ghana (products made with Armcon/Parry equipment). Water tank in Nairobi, Kenya - using interlocking curved blocks made using Parry moulding system.
Water Tank Starter Pack
Semisheet roofing on teachers' housing in Sri Lanka. (pdf specification)
Semisheet Starter Pack

Re-roofing of low income housing in the Dominican Republic using Parry 'Roman II rooftiles.
(pdf specification)
Roman II Starter Pack
Modern houses at the Zambian copper belt roofed with semisheets. (pdf specification)
Semisheet Starter Pack
Architect-designed house in Surinam, South America with roof of Parry 'Roman II' tiles.
(pdf specification)
Roman II Starter Pack

Primary school in Njongon in the Gambia, roofed with Super Roman tiles made on Parry equipment. (pdf specification)
Super Roman Starter Pack
Junior school pupils pose in front of their Parry tiled classroom during visit by JPA Chairman (Nairobi, Kenya).

Another classroom in the Gambia, one of over 100 built under World Bank programme, with Parry roofing specified under the contract. Accommodation block at secondary school in Senegal, roofed with micro-concrete semi sheets. (pdf specification)
Semisheet Starter Pack
In the mountains of Nepal, one of numerous classrooms built by the Nepal School Project. The Parry hand-powered equipment was carried to site by pack ponies.

Training centre at Lunghi, Sierra Leone, a survivor of the civil war with tiles still in good condition after 20 years. Another example of the durability of Parry tiles - a village house in central Sierra Leone, constructed in the 1980's. A farmer's family in Southern Honduras stands by its Parry roof house. Years of tropical exposure has discoloured the otherwise sound tiles.

Village housing in the Dominican Republic, roofed with tiles made with Parry equipment in a local plant. Major development at Koma Rock in Eastern Nairobi; with 3000 middle income houses, with over one million roofing tiles produced by local entrepreneurs and womens' groups using Parry equipment. Experimental building erected under Parry Associates supervision in the central Sahara in the Libyan Arab Republic, demonstrating the use of local materials.

Concept model built to illustrate monorail version of PPM system.
Integrated Transport
Parry testbed vehicle operating on the Ffestiniog Railway.
Integrated Transport
Rail chassis comprising flywheel and hydrostatic driveline constructed by Parry engineers.
Integrated Transport
Early example of Carpet Track concept in Centenary Square, Birmingham, UK.
Integrated Transport

Work in progress at Cradley Heath workshops developing alternative fuel substitute for firewood using waste paper and dairy industry  waste by-products.
Energy Futures
Parry model-constructing ability displayed in the course of a research product in solar-electric power generation.
Energy Futures
Another model built to demonstrate an innovative town planning concept – the Clear Zones theme developed under the UK Technology-Foresight programme in 1997.
Integrated Transport
Model of a rural tramway constructed for Parry licencee company PPM Ltd.
Integrated Transport

Variety of pre-cast concrete elements made on a Parry multiproduct plant. Vibrating machine and moulds comprised in a multiproduct plant. 40ft Sea container being filled with a large £60,000 order for Southern Africa in August 2004.

 

 

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