Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies: Electric Vehicles
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Ransomes were a pioneer trolleybus maker.
1920 October. Exhibited at the Commercial Motor Exhibition at Olympia with batteries from Batteries Ltd and a 3.5 ton electric tipping wagon and a 2-ton electric chassis. [1]
1921 They built one battery-electric bus. This design was constructed around a lorry chassis and was sold to a colliery in Lancashire for work transport.
1943 Produced a trolleybus.[2]
The Museum of English Rural Life holds 2 trolley bus production lists of Ransomes for the period 1925-1948. It is thought that the rest of the records of the electric vehicle department may have disappeared in the move to Nacton or during the gradual phasing out of electric vehicle production.[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Engineer of 22nd October 1920 p400
- ↑ Automobile Engineer: 1943/11/04
- ↑ [1] MERL
- Ian Allan - British Buses Since 1900 - Aldridge and Morris