Ransomes Industrial Estate
Ransomes Industrial Estate, also known as Ransomes Europark is combined retail and business park on the southeastern edge of Ipswich in Suffolk, UK.
It takes its name from Ransomes, Sims& Jefferies, which still maintains a presence on the park.
Predominantly the park consists of light industrial and logistics companies, although there is a growing number of retailers and offices including the head office for KDM International and MSC UK.
Ipswich Transport Museum
The Ipswich Transport Museum is a museum in Ipswich, Suffolk, England devoted principally to the history of transport and engineering objects made or used in its local area.
The museum collection was a commenced by the Ipswich Transport Preservation Group in 1965.
In 1988 it obtained use of its present premises, the old Priory Heath trolleybus depot in Cobham Road, and has been opened to the public since 1995.
Its collection of more than 100 large objects includes buses trams, trolley- and motor-buses from Ipswich Corporation Transport, the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company and other local operators; commercial vehicles; fire apparatus; mobile cranes; bicycles; biers; horse- drawn vehicles; prams; and wheelchairs.
There is a good representation of the Ipswich manufacturers Ransomes, Sims& Jefferies and Ransomes& Rapier and of electric vehicles.
Local rail and waterway transport and aviation are represented mainly by photographic collections and smaller exhibits.
The Museum also houses an archive and library together with costume and ticket collections.
The Museum is a registered charity, and is normally open to visitors on Sundays( 11 am to 4 pm) from April to November; and on weekday afternoons during school holidays( 1 pm to 4 pm).
It also organises occasional events including the annual Ipswich to Felixstowe Run for vintage vehicles on the first Sunday in May, from Christchurch Park, Ipswich to the Promenade in Felixstowe.
Ransomes
Ransomes is the common name for the Ransomes, Sims& Jefferies an engineering business of Orwell Works, Ipswich.< br> It may also refer to several other associated organisations or locations:
Former names for the business of Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies include:
WEPT-CD
WEPT- CD, channel 28( PSIP 15), is a television station licensed to serve Newburgh, New York.
The station is owned by Venture Technologies Group, and is a Jewelry Television affiliate.
Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies Limited was a major British agricultural machinery maker also producing a wide range of general engineering products in Ipswich, Suffolk including traction engines, trolleybuses, ploughs, lawn mowers, combine harvesters and other tilling equipment.
Ransomes also manufactured Direct Current electric motors in a wide range of sizes, and electric forklift trucks and tractors.
They manufactured aeroplanes during the First World War.
Their base, specially set up in 1845, was named Orwell Works.
Ransomes' railway equipment business was hived off in 1869 with a different ownership as Ransomes& Rapier and based nearby at Waterside Ironworks.
Robert Ransome
Robert Ransome( 1753 – 7 March 1830) was an English maker of agricultural implements.
He founded the company later known as Ransomes, Sims& Jefferies.
WD Lab Grown Diamonds
WD Lab Grown Diamonds is a company in the Washington, D.C. area producing lab-grown diamonds for both jewelry and hi-tech applications.
KSFV-CD
KSFV- CD, virtual and UHF digital channel 27, is a Class A television station in Los Angeles, California, owned by Venture Technologies Group, LLC.
The station transmits from Box Springs Mountain in northwestern Riverside County.
This station is an affiliate of Jewelry Television.
Jewelry Television
Jewelry Television( commonly initialized as JTV) is an American television network.
It was formerly called the America's Collectibles Network.
The company sells both women's and men's jewelry.
It has an estimated reach of more than 80 million U.S. households, through cable and satellite providers, online streaming and limited over- the- air broadcasters.
The headquarters of Jewelry Television are located in Knoxville, Tennessee.
It has manufacturing facilities in Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
Jerry Sisk Jr.
Gerald D." Jerry" Sisk Jr.( February 2, 1953 – January 13, 2013) was an American gemologist who co-founded Jewelry Television( JTV) in 1993.
Sisk also served as the executive vice president of Jewelry Television until his death in 2013.
Sisk was born in New York and raised in the New York City Metropolitan Area.
He began working in the jewelry industry as an apprentice as a teenager.
He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he was a member of the Pride of the Southland Band as a student.
Sisk, who spoke six languages fluently, was a graduate gemologist accredited through studies at the Gemological Institute of America( GIA).
He traveled to approximately forty countries during his career.
He was a national committee member for the Gemstone Industry and Laboratory Conference and a member of the International Colored Gemstone Association.
In 1993, Sisk co-founded what would become Jewelry Television together with two partners and longtime friends, Bob Hall and Bill Kouns.
Kouns was a jewelry expert, while Hall had spent his career in the television industry.
The new home shopping channel broadcast from a small studio in Greeneville, Tennessee, utilizing just one television camera.
Eventually, Sisk and his partners moved to a larger, permanent television studio in Knoxville as business and viewers increased.
Jewelry Television, which calls itself the largest retailer of loose gemstones in the United States, employed more than 1,200 people by the time of Sisk's death.
Sisk's best known book," Guide to Gems& Jewelry", has sold more than 15,000 copies, resulting in a second edition.
In April 2012, the" Jewelers Circular Keystone", an industry trade magazine, included Sisk on its" Power List of industry movers and shakers" within the gem and gemstone field.
The magazine called Sisk the fourth most influential person in its" Gems and gemology" sublist.
Within the Knoxville area, Sisk served as a former President of the Knoxville Opera Company and held a seat on the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra.
Sisk died in his sleep at his home in Farragut, Tennessee, on January 13, 2013, at the age of 59.
He was survived by his wife of thirty- seven years, Karen Lawhorn Sisk, his mother, Elaine Sisk, and his sister, Melanie.
He was buried in Concord Masonic Cemetery in Concord, Tennessee.

Question: Are both Jewelry Television and Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies located in the same country?
Answer: no