Private company
Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies
Logo: BulldozerD11, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons3
British agricultural machinery maker
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.2 It ceased to exist in 1998.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- Industryagricultural technology, vehicle construction1
- HeadquartersIpswich1
- Websitewww.jacobsen.com/europe
- Legal formprivate company limited by shares1
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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.2
Products and brands
- forklift
Listed on Wikidata.1
Timeline
Links
- Websitewww.jacobsen.com/europe1
- WikipediaRansomes, Sims & Jefferies
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ12066903
Sources
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- 3Wikimedia CommonsRansomes, Sims & Jefferies logo by BulldozerD11, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 4Wikimedia CommonsRansomes, Sims & Jefferies photo by Norbert Schnitzler, CC BY-SA 3.0