RANSOMES SIMS & JEFFERIES LTD; (Third Deposit)

TR 3RAN

1898-1980

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.

Third deposit records, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies

22 Series

Ipswich, Agricultural machinery

TR RAN, TR 2RAN, TR 4RAN, TR 5RAN, TR 6RAN, TR 7RAN, TR 8RAN, TR 9RAN, TR 10RAN, TR 11RAN, TR 12RAN, TR 13RAN, TR 14RAN, TR 15RAN, TR 16RAN, TR 17RAN, TR 18RAN

Grace, D R & Phillips, D C Ransomes of Ipswich (Reading : Institute of Agricultural History, 1975) Weaver, C & M Ransomes : A Bicentennial Celebration (Ipswich: Ransomes Sims & Jefferies, 1989) Records deposited on indefinite loan on 8 January 1981 by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies