Gimson and Company

The company were listed as Engineers, Ironfounders, Boiler Makers & General Machinists.

Between 1876 and 1878 a new works, Vulcan Foundry, was developed beside the Midland Railway mainline.

It had a workforce of 350 men and all lifting was done with steam hoists and travelling cranes.

Gimson became a major manufacturer of machinery for the footwear industry.

Woolf compound rotative beam pumping engines; Single-cylinder condensing rotative beam pumping engines of 1879; Horizontal single cylinder; Wall-mounted vertical single cylinder lift engine;