OUR PRODUCT MANUFACTURERS — GEC

Associated Electrical Industries 1926 Gerard Swope, president of General Electric (U.S.A), proposed that BTH, Westinghouse, GEC and the English Electric Co should amalgamate but Hugo Hirst of GEC was not interested in Swope’s scheme. 1928 Associated Electrical Industries (AEI)  was established, with Howard C. Levis (chairman of BTH) as chairman, as a result of the merger of Metropolitan-Vickers and its rival British Thomson-Houston (BTH), a company of similar size and product lineup. Combined, they would be one of the few companies able to compete with Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co or the English Electric Co on an equal footing. Also included...

The Marconi Company should not be confused with the Marconi Corporation which was created in 1999, by the renaming of The General Electric Company (GEC) less the Marconi Electronic Systems business. Up to 1963, the term Marconi Co was often used as shorthand for Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co. 1963 Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co, a subsidiary of the English Electric Co, was renamed the Marconi Company 1968 Queen's Award to Industry for Technological Innovation 1968 English Electric Co was taken over by GEC 1968 Marconi was incorporated in the new divisions of GEC group. 1987 Renamed GEC-Marconi. 1998 Creation of Marconi Electronic Systems Ltd (MES) incorporating the defence electronics...