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1931 Paul Taylor and business partner Edward Lavington invented the “Pamphonic Electrical Reproducer” Pamphonic install amplifier systems in the London Coliseum Theatre and Drury Lane theatre.   1932 Pamphonic Reproducers incorporated as a limited company and the trademarks Pamphonic and Paramphonic are  registered Pamphonic install a public address system at White City stadium, Empire Pool Wembley. Pamphonic launch the “Standard Pamphonic Reproducer” comprising of a Marconi Pickup, Garrard Induction Deck and  Epoch loudspeaker. Keith Prowse appointed as “sole concessionaire” for Pamphonic Reproducers.    1938 Pamphonic introduce the 516 Moving Coil Microphone Pamphonic introduce the 520 Carbon microphone     1946/47 Pamphonic introduce the601A 25W PA Amplifier. (3x SP41,...

  Parmeko of Leicester 1927 Private company formed as Partridge & Mee Ltd. 1935 Name changed. 1961 Manufacturing electrical engineers, makers of transformers, transductors, magnetic amplifiers, electronic control gear, electronic equipment and sound reproducing equipment. 600 employees.

  The foundations of Philips were laid in 1891 when Anton and Gerard Philips established Philips & Co. in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The company begun manufacturing carbon-filament lamps and by the turn of the century, had become one of the largest producers in Europe. By 1910, with 2,000 employees, Philips was the largest single employer in The Netherlands.  The very first factory (now being turned into the Philips Museum) specialised in making lightbulbs and other electro-technical equipment until the 1920s, when the company expanded into vacuum tube manufacturing.  Stimulated by the industrial revolution in Europe, Philips’ first research laboratory was...

  The British Pilot Company In 1936, the British Pilot Company began producing sets with both imported and locally produced parts. For the first three years, British sets closely resembled those produced by the American Company. However, some tube-type changes (metal tubes not then being available for replacement purposes in Britain) and steps to save on cabinet costs had to be implemented.The American Pilot Company 1925 Original company formed to supply kits and parts. 1927 Introduction of the "Wasp" shortwave set. 1928 Publication of the magazine Radio Design. Introduction of the "Super Wasp." 1929 Introduction of the "AC Super Wasp." Acquisition of Speed...

The Plessey Company - an electronics, defence and telecommunications company. General History  1917. 12th December. Plessey was founded in Marylebone, London as a mechanical engineer, manufacturing jigs and tools, supplying other companies. The company was formed specifically to take advantage of the talents of a German-born engineer, William Oscar Heyne, who had been interned at the start of World War 1. The original shareholders were Thomas Hurst Hodgson, Raymond Parker and his brother Plessey Parker, and C. H. Whitaker, a school friend of Heyne's. There are various ideas about the origins of the company’s name - it is said to have been...