Gimson and Co

1885 beam pumping engine, which can be seen operating at Claymills Victorian Pumping Station

1885 beam pumping engine, which can be seen operating at Claymills Victorian Pumping Station

Art, saved for the nation! Bearing pedestal on one of four superb 1891 Gimson beam engines at Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester

Gimson wall engine at Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester

1892

1895 steam engine at Snibston Discovery Park

1880 Beam engine at Snibston Discovery Park

of Vulcan Works, Vulcan Street, Leicester

1842 Company founded at Welford Road by the brothers Josiah Gimson and Benjamin Gimson who worked previously at Cort's foundry

Early products were braid machinery for the elastic web trade and they also advertised as brassfounders, millwrights and manufacturers of boot and shoe making machinery

In 1878 new works were built at Humberstone Road, Leicester, close to the Midland Railway. The building was designed by John Breedon Everard and is one of the earliest examples of the integration of iron foundry and engineering.

1880 Employing around 350 men

1880 Single-Cylinder Rotative beam Engine for South Staffordshire Waterworks (Hopwas Pumping Station).

1885 Four engines for Burton-on-Trent Council for sewage pumping at Claymills Victorian Pumping Station.

1887 Gimsons were awarded the contract for the supply and erection of the four beam engines, complete with eight boilers and associated machinery, at the Abbey Park Sewage Works, Leicester, built in 1891.

1891 Four beam engines pumping sewage at Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester

1892 Advert.

1895 Steam engine at Snibston Discovery Museum (see photo). Worked at Chilprufe Manufacturing Co until 1967

1896 Private company. The company was registered on 4 September, to acquire the business of mechanical engineers of the firm of the same name. Directors were Josiah Mentor Gimson, Arthur James Gimson, Sydney Ansell Gimson and Josiah Gimson.

1914 Engineers. Specialities: passenger and goods lifts, boot and shoe machinery and all classes of general engineering. Employees 700.

1937 General engineers and ironfounders.

1961 General engineers and ironfounders, producing bottling machinery, conveyors, electric goods and passenger lifts. 450 employees.

1986 Moved to Beaumont Leys, Leicester

See Also

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Sources of Information

• The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978. ISBN 0-903485-65-6
• Stationary Steam Engines of Great Britain by George Watkins. Vol 10