Peter Augustus Ransom
Peter Augustus Ransom (1862-1918)
1919 Obituary [1]
PETER AUGUSTUS RANSOM was born at Elmham, Norfolk, on 26th April 1862.
He was educated at Bradfield College, near Reading, and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
In December 1883 he was articled to Mr. H. O. Baldry, resident engineer on the Didcot, Newbury, and Southampton Railway, and afterwards was contractor's engineer on the Upper Lliw Reservoir, Swansea.
In 1887 he purchased the Unbreakable Pulley Co.'s business in Manchester, which from a small beginning he developed into a large company for manufacturing shafting, mill-gearing, and transmission equipment for factories.
He served on the Engineering Standards Committee on Keys and Keyways, experimented for years on ball, roller, ring-oiling, and cast-iron bearings for carrying shafting, and was keenly interested in the designing of friction-clutches.
His death took place suddenly at Shortlands, on 11th November 1918, at the age of fifty-six.
He became a Member of this Institution in 1909.