title: Gimson and Company
text: # 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
  