🧭 Peters — Based in Hannover and Berlin, Germany — ca. 1900–1960s, with Peak: 1920s–1940s.

Peters was a German manufacturer of domestic piston meters, rotary meters, and Woltmann industrial meters. Their meters appear in municipal waterworks across central and northern Germany, especially Hannover, Berlin, Leipzig, and Dresden.

Name variants found in historical sources include Peters Wasserzählerfabrik, G. Peters and Peters & Co.

🏭 Product Line

- Domestic meters

- Volumetric piston meters (Qn 1.5–3)

- Rotary domestic meters

- Heavy brass bodies

- Semi‑wet and dry‑dial registers

- Commercial / industrial meters

- Horizontal‑axis Woltmann meters

- Vertical‑axis Woltmann meters

- Combination meters (small + large flow)

Accessories included Strainers, Non‑return valves, Meter unions, Flanged housings

📜 Historical Evidence

Peters appears in Municipal procurement lists, Pre‑war German industrial handbooks Mid‑century municipal equipment catalogues and trade journals. These lists explicitly name Peters as a supplier.

🧭 Why Peters disappeared

Likely closure window:

1950s–1960s Post‑war material shortages, DIN standardisation (1950s), Market consolidation and competition.

Peters was a mid‑tier manufacturer — strong regionally, but not large enough to survive national consolidation.

Currently this Museum does not possess a surviving Peter meter.