Gimson and Co

1892

of Leicester

• 1842 Company founded.

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

• 1885 Four engines for Burton-on-Trent Council (Clay Mills Station)

• 1892 Advert.

• 1896 Private company.

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

Sources of Information

• The Steam Engine in Industry by George Watkins in two volumes. Moorland Publishing. 1978. ISBN 0-903485-65-6
• Wright's Directory of Leicestershire, 1892
• 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE