Catalogue description RANSOMES, SIMS & JEFFERIES LTD

The records comprise additional deposits of material, to the main Ransomes Collection, TR RAN. They help fill various gaps in the firm's archives, particularly with regard to thrashing machinery, trolley buses and traction engines. The thrashing machinery items include 2 registers of Ransomes' and Rustons' drawings [D01/1 & 2] referring to post World War one drawings and including barcograph transparency numbers; the 2 series of parts registers [MP3/1-5], dating back to the 1860s, one series for general castings, the other for spindles; the first building book of 1879 [MP2/1] and a fine collection of 76 early twentieth century advertising and servicing publications from some different mainly U.S.A. manufacturers. [P2/B1/-76]. The trolley bus and bus body material is the run of order books, 1920-1948 [AD7/1-2], with details of amounts invoiced, though the entries are summary only from 1939 onwards. The traction engine records comprise a copy of the Road Locomotive Society list of engine histories [MP1/1]. Finally there is a collection of c.150 early twentieth century glass negatives [PH1] taken by J. & F. Howard Ltd., Bedford comprising works views of their ploughs and cultivating implements.

Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Ltd, agricultural manufacturers

Material deposited on temporary loan for copying December, 1973 T73/25

Permanent loan May, 1975 T75/10

Permanent loan August, 1975 T75/13

Permanent loan January, 1976 T76/4

Temporary loan for copying November, 1976 T76/33

• Ipswich, Suffolk
• Agricultural machinery

Located at Nacton, Ipswich, Suffolk