Ransomes is the common name for the Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies an engineering business of Orwell Works, Ipswich.
It may also refer to several other associated organisations or locations:
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Ransome & Marles
Ransome & Marles Bearing Company Limited was a British company which made ball bearings and roller bearings. It was founded during the First World War to make bearings for aircraft and other engines. Before the war most bearings had been imported, ...
, Newark-on-Trent and their brass band
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Ransomes & Rapier
Ransomes & Rapier was a major United Kingdom, British manufacturer of railway equipment and later cranes, from 1869 to 1987. Originally an offshoot of the major engineering company Ransomes, Sims & Jeffries, Ransome's it was based at Waterside Wo ...
of Waterside Works, Ipswich
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Ransomes and Reavell Sports Club Ground
Ransomes Sports Pavilion (formerly Ransomes and Reavell Sports Club Ground) is a cricket ground in Ipswich, Suffolk. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1972, Suffolk played Hertfordshire in the ground's first Minor Counties Champion ...
, Ipswich
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Ransomes Industrial Estate
Ransomes Industrial Estate, also known as Ransomes Europark, is a combined retail and business park located in Priory Heath Ward, Ipswich, on the southeastern edge of Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. It is named after Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, which sti ...
, Ipswich
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Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Limited was a major United Kingdom, British agricultural machinery maker also producing a wide range of general engineering products in Ipswich, Suffolk including traction engines, trolleybuses, ploughs, lawn mowers, ...
, an engineering business of Orwell Works, Ipswich
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Ransomes Sports F.C., Ransomes and Reavell Sports Club Ground, Ipswich
Former names for the business of Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies include:
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* 1789 Robert Ransome.
* 1809 Ransome & Son.
* 1818 Ransome & Sons.
* 1823 J & R Ransome.
* 1830 J R and A Ransome.
* 1846 Ransomes & May. added Charles May
* 1852 Ransomes & Sims. added William Dillwyn Sims
* 1869 Ransomes, Sims & Head. added John Head
* 1881 Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies. added John Robert Jefferies
:(Incorporated limited liability joint-stock company)
* 1884 Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies Limited
* 1911 Public listed company Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies Limited
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