Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies
Company name plate on steam engine boiler | |
| Company type | (from 1911) public listed company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Agricultural engineering, General engineering, Manufacturing |
| Predecessor | Ransomes partnerships |
| Founded | of company 1884, of enterprise before 1789 |
| Defunct | 1998 |
| Fate | Taken over |
| Successor | Textron Inc. |
| Headquarters | Ipswich, England |
| Products | Ploughs, Traction engines, Threshing machines, Combine harvesters, Lawn mowers, Trolleybuses, Forklifts etc |
| Subsidiaries | |
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.