RANSOMES, SIMS & JEFFERIES LTD

TR 2RAN

1866-1959

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.

The records comprise additional deposits of material, to the main Ransomes Collection, TR RAN. They help fill various gaps in the firm's archives, particularly with regard to thrashing machinery, trolley buses and traction engines. The thrashing machinery items include 2 registers of Ransomes' and Rustons' drawings [D01/1 & 2] referring to post World War one drawings and including barcograph transparency numbers; the 2 series of parts registers [MP3/1-5], dating back to the 1860s, one series for general castings, the other for spindles; the first building book of 1879 [MP2/1] and a fine collection of 76 early twentieth century advertising and servicing publications from some different mainly U.S.A. manufacturers. [P2/B1/-76]. The trolley bus and bus body material is the run of order books, 1920-1948 [AD7/1-2], with details of amounts invoiced, though the entries are summary only from 1939 onwards. The traction engine records comprise a copy of the Road Locomotive Society list of engine histories [MP1/1]. Finally there is a collection of c.150 early twentieth century glass negatives [PH1] taken by J. & F. Howard Ltd., Bedford comprising works views of their ploughs and cultivating implements.

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Ipswich, Agricultural machinery

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