Ransomes
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: *Ransome & Marles, Newark-on-Trent and their brass band *Ransomes & Rapier of Waterside Works, Ipswich *Ransomes and Reavell Sports Club Ground, Ipswich *Ransomes Industrial Estate, Ipswich *Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, an engineering business of Orwell Works, Ipswich *Ransomes Sports F.C. Ransomes Sports Football Club is a association football, football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. The club are currently members of the and play at the Ransomes and Reavell Sports Club Ground. History The original Ransomes were establ ...

Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Limited was a major British agricultural machinery maker also producing a wide range of general engineering products in Ipswich, Suffolk including traction engines, trolleybuses, ploughs, lawn mowers, combine harvesters and other tilling equipment. Ransomes also manufactured Direct Current electric motors in a wide range of sizes, and electric forklift trucks and tractors. They manufactured aeroplanes during the First World War. Their base, specially set up in 1845, was named Orwell Works. Ransomes' railway equipment business was hived off in 1869 with a different ownership as Ransomes & Rapier and based nearby at Waterside Ironworks. History 18th century The enterprise was started by Robert Ransome (1753–1830), who was born into a Quaker family in Norfolk, and became an apprentice to an ironmonger in Norwich. The Quaker values of frugal living, avoiding debt and keeping regular accounts served him well when he set up one of the first brass and ...
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Ransomes & Rapier
Ransomes & Rapier was a major British manufacturer of railway equipment and later cranes, from 1869 to 1987. Originally an offshoot of the major engineering company Ransome's it was based at Waterside Works in Ipswich, Suffolk. Ransome's split Ransomes & Rapier was formed in 1869 when four engineers, James Allen Ransome (1806–1875), his elder son, Robert James Ransome (c.1831–1891), Richard Christopher Rapier (1836–1897) and Arthur Alec Bennett (1842–1916), left the parent firm by agreement to establish a new firm on a site on the River Orwell to continue the business of manufacturing railway equipment and other heavy works. The year before J. A. Ransome's younger son, Allen Ransome (1833–1913), founded the saw-milling machinery business, A. Ransome & Co, in Chelsea London with a foundry in Battersea. These businesses, transferred to Newark-on-Trent in 1900, led at the outset of World War I to Ransome & Marles now part of Nippon Seikō Kabushiki-kaisha. R. C. Rapier ...
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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 County Cricket Club, Suffolk played Hertfordshire County Cricket Club, Hertfordshire in the grounds first Minor Counties Championship match. From 1972 to present, the ground has hosted 48 Minor Counties Championship matches, including the rain-affected 2005 final between Suffolk and Cheshire County Cricket Club, Cheshire in 2005, which was drawn. and 2 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. The ground has also hosted a single List-A cricket, List-A match which saw Minor Counties East play Middlesex County Cricket Club, Middlesex in the 1978 Benson and Hedges Cup. The ground is the home of St Margaret's Cricket Club and Ransomes Sports F.C., Ransomes Sports Football Club. References External linksRansomes and Reavell Sports Club Groundon CricketArchive
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Ransome & Marles
Ransome & Marles Bearing Company Limited was the owner of a business making ball and roller bearings founded during the First World War to make bearings for aircraft and other engines. Before the war most bearings had been imported and most of those were from Germany. The business is now part of NSK UK Limited but Ransome & Marles former plant, Stanley Works, remains in operation in Northern Road, Newark NG24 2JF, Nottinghamshire UK Products The ball-bearing industry provides an essential input to the motor, machine tool, engineering and aircraft industries. History A Ransome & Co Ransome & Marles grew from another separate business needing bearings for its own products. In 1868 Allen Ransome (1833-1913) and Frederic Josselyn (1842-1900) set up A Ransome & Co in Chelsea, London. A Ransome & Co designed and manufactured woodworking and timber-handling machinery. Later they acquired a foundry in Battersea. Vincent Sydney Woods (1855-1939) joined them at the foundry and the f ...
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Ransomes Industrial Estate
Ransomes Industrial Estate, also known as Ransomes Europark is combined retail and business park located in Priory Heath Ward, Ipswich, on the southeastern edge of Ipswich in Suffolk, UK. It takes its name from Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, which still maintains a presence on the park. Predominantly the park consists of light industrial and logistics companies, although there is a growing number of retailers and offices including the head office for KDM International and MSC UK. it was announced that IKEA IKEA (; ) is a Dutch multinational conglomerate based in the Netherlands that designs and sells , kitchen appliances, decoration, home accessories, and various other goods and home services. Started in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA has been t ... are in talks to take on part of the estate occupied by Crane Fluid Systems for a new store. References Buildings and structures in Ipswich Business parks of England Industrial parks in the United Kingdom {{suffo ...
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