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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> His son James following an apprenticeship with his father opened a new foundry with another former Ransomes apprentice at Great Yarmouth. James moved back to Ipswich in 1809 and joined his father’s prospering business which at that point became Ransome & Son. Dealerships to sell Ransomes implements and self-sharpening plough shares had been established throughout East Anglia and by 1810 Ransomes’ ploughs were being exported to South Africa and Canada. The company already had a warehouse for the display and sale of ploughs in Norwich and another was opened near the Ipswich Corn Exchange in 1821. A period of agricultural depression occurred soon after James joined the business but fortunately Ransome & Son had other engineering interests. The Ransome family was involved in the formation of the Ipswich Gas Supply Company to provide town gas for Ipswich in 1817 and they retained an interest until it became a separate company in 1822. William Cubitt appointed as Ransome’s company engineer in 1812 added general engineering to the business and in 1818 he took charge of a contract to build a cast-iron bridge which spanned the River Gipping for the next 105 years. Cubitt also invented wind-regulated vanes for windmills and a human treadmill. The latter was used to grind corn and one of these treadmills was installed in Ipswich prison on the site of the present County Hall in St Helen’s Street. The founder’s younger son. also Robert was apprenticed to his father in 1810 and was made a partner in 1818 when the firm became Ransome & Sons.