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Ransomes & Rapier was a major British manufacturer of railway equipment and later cranes, from 1869 to 1987. Originally an offshoot of the major engineering company Ransome's it was based at Waterside Works in Ipswich, Suffolk. ==Ransome's split== 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. The year before J A Ransome's younger son, Allen Ransome (1833-1913), founded the saw-milling machinery business, A Ransome & Co, in Chelsea London with a foundry in Battersea. These businesses, transferred to Newark-on-Trent in 1900, led at the outset of World War I to Ransome & Marles now part of Nippon Seikō Kabushiki-kaisha. R C Rapier had been head of Ransome's Orwell Works railway department since he joined the business in 1862. When the two businesses were split he became the engineering partner in the new firm known as Ransomes and Rapier at the Waterside Ironworks. A limited liability company was incorporated to own the firm on 17 April 1896 using the same name with the addition of Limited (later plc): Ransomes and Rapier Limited.〔Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch, Corporate records HC427/1 1873-1972〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ransomes & Rapier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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