Title
RANSOMES SIMS & JEFFERIES LTD; (Ninth Deposit)
Reference
TR 9RAN
Production date
1928-1985
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
Ninth deposit of Records of Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies
Extent
20 series
Level of description
fonds
Content Subject
System of arrangment
TR 9RAN/AC5/1 Cost Book
TR 9RAN/AD2/1-16 Annual Reports
TR 9RAN/DO1/1-2 Drawings
TR 9RAN/DO2/1-9 Registers
TR 9RAN/ET3/1-3 Reports
TR 9RAN/MP1/1 Index
TR 9RAN/MP2/1-34 Specification sheets
TR 9RAN/MP3/1-2 Engineering sublists
TR 9RAN/P2/B1-34 Publications (other firms)
TR 9RAN/P5/1-1 Press releases
TR 9RAN/P7/1 Advertisements
TR 9RAN/P8/1-2 Printing proofs and artwork
TR 9RAN/P9/1 Paper bag
TR 9RAN/PH1/1 Negatives
TR 9RAN/PH2/1-16 Albums
TR 9RAN/PH3/1-3 Photographs
TR 9RAN/PH4/1-3 Indexes
TR 9RAN/PH5/1 Transparencies
TR 9RAN/SP3/1-3 Press cuttings
TR 9RAN/SP4/1 Desk diaries (R A Brown)
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