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Gimson & Co builder's plaque on the cylinder casing of 'C' engine at Claymills Pumping Station

Gimson and Company were founded in 1840 by Josiah and Benjamin Gimson on Welford Road in Leicester. The company were listed as Engineers, Ironfounders, Boiler Makers & General Machinists. They later moved to Vulcan Works, Vulcan Street, Humberstone Road, Leicester.

Expansion[]

Between 1876 and 1878 a new works, Vulcan Foundry, was developed at the side of the Midland Railway mainline. The site covered three and a half acres, the foundry shop was 180 ft by 62 ft. It had a workforce of 350 men and all lifting was done with steam hoists and travelling cranes.

Products[]

Stationary steam engines, passenger and goods lifts, boot and shoe machinery, agricultural machinery.

Preserved steam engines[]

Woolf compound rotative beam pumping engines;

Single-cylinder condensing rotative beam pumping engines of 1879;

  • One at Snibston Discovery Park, Coalville, Leics
  • One at Forncett Industrial Steam Museum, Forncett St. Mary, Norfolk

Horizontal single cylinder of 1899;

  • One at Hall & Woodhouse Ltd., Brewery, Blandford St. Mary, Dorset.

Wall-mounted vertical single cylinder lift engine;

  • One at Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester

References[]

  1. Claymills.org, Claymills Pumping Station trust site

External links[]

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