THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — mullard blackburn

In October 1952, Mullard made the headlines in that mainstream publication British Textiles!   "Spotless white nylon coveralls and coloured nylon headscarves are worn by all operatives in the assembly room of Mullard's new valve factory.  The well-founded reason is that the highest posiible standards of cleanliness must be maintained in an operation so delicate that the presence of lint or dust in the atmosphere could cause deterioration of the valves and nylon being non fibrous creates neither lint nor dust.  The girls are given a choice of four colours of headscarf: pink, light blue, green or lemon and it...

It was 1937 and SS Eriks, General Manager of Mullard, sat in his office, comfortable in his Tan-sad office chair but he was troubled. Mitcham could no longer keep up with the pace of production required to fulfill the radio world's voracious demands for thermionic devices - something had to be done. Eriks was a chap whom melded humanitarianism with good business acumen, the Mitcham site could not be expanded further, what he needed was an available work force and a surfeit of cheap plentiful land upon which to build a new plant yet still have plenty of room for...

What a lovely aerial photo of the Mullard factory at Little Harwood which is at the northern edge of Blackburn.  This photo was taken sometime in 1935 not long after factory construction commenced, but, bigger and better things were on the way. It was 1937 and SS Eriks, General Manager of Mullard, sat in his office, comfortable in his Tan-sad office chair but he was troubled. Mitcham could no longer keep up with the pace of production required to fulfill the radio world's voracious demands for thermionic devices - something had to be done.  Eriks was a chap whom melded humanitarianism...