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 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 th ...
, Newark-on-Trent and their brass band
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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
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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 County Cricket Club, Suffolk played Hertfordshire County Cricket Cl ...
, Ipswich
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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 ...
, Ipswich
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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 harves ...
, an engineering business of Orwell Works, Ipswich
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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 and Reavell Sports Club Ground, Ipswich
Former names for the business of Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies include:
:(partnerships)
* 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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