Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company company. In 1944, Parsons was one of 19 companies which formed the 'Parsons and Marine Engineering Turbine Research and Development Association', usually known as Pametrada. The last ship to use a Parsons propulsion system was launched in 1964. The company was absorbed into C. A. Parsons and Company and survives in the Heaton area of Newcastle as part of Siemens, a German industrial conglomerate. Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company was a British engineering company based in Wallsend, North East England, on the River Tyne. The company was founded by Charles Algernon Parsons in 1897 with
The Haunted Castle (1897 British film) edition of "The British Film Catalogue". However, the film historian John Barnes, in his book-length study of the year 1897 in British film, concluded that the title referred to a Méliès film that had been referenced in England since May of that year. Méliès's 1897 film "Le Château hanté" was indeed released in Britain as "The Haunted Castle". (A slightly earlier film of his, "Le Manoir du diable", made in the winter of 1896–7, is also known as "The Haunted Castle" after its American release title.) The Haunted Castle (1897 British film) The Haunted Castle is a hypothetical lost 1897