Telescopes made by Grubb Parsons

The following list of instruments was compiled by Ian Glass ( http://www.saao.ac.za/~isg/gp.html), who has kindly allowed me to reproduce it here.I have added links giving further information, photographs and in some cases video.

18-inch Coelostat and 12-inch objective, Mt Stromlo Observatory, Australia, 1927

36-inch reflector, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, UK, 1930

15/10-inch twin refractor, Edinburgh (1930s)

24/20-inch twin refractor, Saltzjobaden, Sweden, 1931

40-inch reflector, Saltzjobaden, Sweden, 1931

18-inch reflector, Mills Observatory, Dundee, Scotland, 1933

36-inch reflector, Royal Greenwich Observatory, UK, 1933

16-inch solar telescope, University Observatory, Oxford, 1934

74-inch reflector, David Dunlap Observatory, Canada, 1935

16-inch photographic refractor, Leiden Southern Station, South Africa, 1938

74-inch reflector, Radcliffe Observatory, Pretoria, South Africa, 1938

13/10-inch twin refractor, Pilsudski Observatory, Poland, 1938

48cm reflector, Vilnius (1938). Later Maidanek. Now (2007) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

10x8 ft^2 heliostat mirror, Wills, Bristol (before WW2)

10-inch P.Z.T., Royal Greenwich Observatory, UK, 1947

12-inch solar telescope, Arosa

20-inch solar reflector 1953 Oxford University, UK, 1953

7-inch transit San Fernando, Spain, 1953

17/24-inch Schmidt Cambridge University, UK, 1954

10-inch P.Z.T., Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1954

7-inch transit, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1954

74-inch reflector, Mt Stromlo, Australia, 1955-2003 (burnt in 2003)

36-inch Schmidt, Cambridge University, UK, 1955

10-inch P.Z.T., Royal Greenwich Observatory, UK, 1955

10-inch P.Z.T., Mt Stromlo, Australia, 1956

75-inch reflector (tube and mounting), St Michel, France, 1956

24-inch Coelostat, Kodaikanal, India, 1958

74-inch reflector, Tokyo University, Japan, 1960

48-inch reflector, Victoria, Canada, 1961 

40-inch reflector, Pic du Midi, France. Optics only 1962

16-inch twin reflector, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, UK, 1962 

34-inch Hewitt Camera 1962

40-inch reflector, Royal Observatory, South Africa, 1963

74-inch reflector, Helwan (Kottamia), Egypt, 1963. Original mirror believed to have been destroyed accidentally during aluminizing and replaced by a Zeiss one in 1998.

30-inch reflector, Jungfraujoch, Switzerland, 1966

20-inch reflector, Edinburgh University, UK, 1967

16-inch Schmidt, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, UK, 1967

98-inch reflector, Royal Greenwich Observatory, UK, 1967

16/24-inch Schmidt, Castelgandolfo, 1967

20-inch reflector, Glasgow University, UK, 1968

1.8-m mirror for Asiago, Italy, 1969

48/72-inch Schmidt, Siding Spring, Australia, 1973

154-inch reflector (tube and optics), Siding Spring, Australia, 1974

48-inch reflector, Athens University, Greece, 1975

48-inch reflector (tube and optics), Hamburg, Germany, 1975

30-inch reflector, SAAO, Sutherland, 1975

150-in mirror, UKIRT, Hawaii, 1976

60-in reflector (optics and tube), (Danish tel) ESO, Chile, 1976

31-inch Schmidt (mounting; no optics), Max Planck

39-inch reflector, La Palma, 1979 (Kapteyn)

100-inch mirror only, (new INT mirror), La Palma

48-inch achromatic corrector, Palomar Schmidt, ca 1980

170-inch William Herschel reflector, La Palma, 1985