Ransome & Marles
Newark-on-Trent and their brass band
Ransome & Marles Bearing Company Limited was a British company which made ball bearings and roller bearings. It was founded during the First World War to make bearings for aircraft and other engines. Before the war most bearings had been imported, chiefly from Germany.
The business is now part of NSK UK, but Ransome & Marles' former plant, Stanley Works, remains in operation on Northern Road, Newark in Nottinghamshire.
Products
The ball-bearing industry provides an essential input to the motor, machine tool, engineering and aircraft industries.
History
A Ransome & Co
Ransome & Marles grew from another separate business needing bearings for its own products. In 1868 Allen Ransome (1833–1913) and Frederic Josselyn (1842–1900) set up A Ransome & Co in Chelsea, London.
A Ransome & Co designed and manufactured woodworking and timber-handling machinery.
Later they acquired a foundry in Battersea. Vincent Sydney Woods (1855–1939) joined them at the foundry and the foundry firm's name was Ransome, Josselyn and Woods.
“Ransome & Marles” enters the record as newark-on-Trent and their brass band. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ransome, Marles and Newark-on-Trent can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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