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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.
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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.
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
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The following is a list of locomotives produced by the Electro-Motive Corporation ... 2,250 hp (1670 kW) E9: 1954–1964: 100 A units, 44 B units: A1A-A1A: Dual 567C ...
The R-2800 was developed and modified into a basic sequence of subtypes, "A" through "E" series, each of which indicated major internal and external modifications and improvements, such that the "E" series engines had very few parts in common with the "A". [citation needed]. Pratt & Whitney's internal variant identification incorporated the ...