Title
RANSOMES SIMS & JEFFERIES LTD (Fourth Deposit)
Reference
TR 4RAN
Production date
1879 - 1980
Creator
Creator History
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, engineers of Orwell Works, Ipswich were a major British agricultural machinery maker. (https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Ransomes,_Sims_and_Jefferies)
Located at Nacton, Ipswich, Suffolk.
The firm adopted various styles while in business at Ipswich. The following list indicates their dates of adoption and the abbreviations used in the catalogue:
1789 RR Robert Ransome
1809 RSn Ransome & Son
1818 RSs Ransome & Sons
1825 JRR J. & R. Ransome
1830 JRAR J. R. & A. Ransome
1846 RM Ransome & May
1852 RS Ransome & Sims
1869 RSH Ransome, Sims & Head
1881 RHJ Ransome, Head & Jefferies
1884 RSJ Ransome, Sims & Jefferies Ltd. (1884 Private Limited Company)
(1911 Public Limited Company)
Prior to 1789 Robert Ransome was in business at Norwich trading under the following styles:
1774 Robert Ransome
1784 Ransome & Co.
Scope and Content
Fourth deposit of records of Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies
Extent
25 series
Level of description
fonds
Content Subject
System of arrangment
TR 4RAN/AC1/1-2 Ledgers
TR 4RAN/AC7/1-19 Financial statements
TR 4RAN/AC8/1-22 Branch accounts
TR 4RAN/AD2/1 Monthly summaries
TR 4RAN/AD3/1-2 Employee references
TR 4RAN/AD4/1 Valuation register
TR 4RAN/AD5/1 Register
TR 4RAN/AD7/1-60 Commercial records
TR 4RAN/AD8/1 Telegram
TR 4RAN/AD9/1 Advice notes
TR 4RAN/CO5/1-2 Patenting records
TR 4RAN/DO1/1 Drawings
TR 4RAN/DO2/1 Drawing register
TR 4RAN/ET3/1 Technical reference file
TR 4RAN/MP1/1-62 Registers and lists of production
TR 4RAN/MP2/1-7 Manufacturing working papers
TR 4RAN/MP3/1-12 Parts, repairs and outworks records
TR 4RAN/PA/A1-91 House journals (Ransomes)
TR 4RAN/P7/1 Album of press adverts
TR 4RAN/P8/1 Proof of newsletter
TR 4RAN/PH2/1-11 Compilations of photographs
TR 4RAN/PH3/1-17 Photographs
TR 4RAN/SH1/1-14 Certificates
TR 4RAN/SP2/1 Minutes Orwell Works Hockey Club
TR 4RAN/2-11 Records Orwell Works Athletics Club
TR 4RAN/12-28 Records Orwell Works Guard
TR 4RAN/SP3/1 Certificate
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