Gimson and Company
# Gimson and Company

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 Road, Humberstone Road, Leicester.

## Expansion

Between 1876 and 1878 a new works, Vulcan Foundry, was developed beside 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;

* Four of 1885 at Claymills Pumping Station, Burton on Trent.
* Four of 1891 at Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester

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;

* 12"×24" of 1895 Snibston Discovery Museum
* Engine of 1899 at Hall & Woodhouse., Brewery, Blandford St. Mary, Dorset.

Wall-mounted vertical single cylinder lift engine;

* One at Abbey Pumping Station, Leicester
