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Vitavox of Westmorland Road, London, NW9. Telephone: Colindale 8671. Cables: "Vitavox, London" 1931 Company founded by Len Young with premises in Willesden.  1933 The first exports were to Germany as the Company's aim was to establish an international market for its products. The Company carried out its first work for the Royal Navy, designing and manufacturing microphones and loudspeakers. WWII. Supply to the Navy reached such high proportions in the war years of 1939-45, that company staff were working twenty hours a day, seven days a week with a greatly increased staff, in order to supply them with thousands of microphones...

WJ Communications Inc. is the commercial product descendent of Watkins-Johnson Company, which was founded in 1957 and developed and manufactured devices for defense electronics and space communications systems. With increased market opportunities in commercial communications in the 1990s, WJ began applying its technology, design and manufacturing expertise to develop commercial communications products. Today WJ Communications has established itself as a RF semiconductor company focusing on the design and manufacture of high-quality and innovative devices and multi-chip modules for the communications industry, as well as suppliers of best-in-class RFID readers, modules and chipsets. In 2008 WJ was acquired by TriQuint Semiconductor,...

1896 W. G. Pye and Co Ltd was founded in Cambridge by William George Pye, an employee of the Cavendish Laboratory, as a part time business making scientific instruments. 1914 By the outbreak of World War I, the company employed 40 people manufacturing instruments that were used for teaching and research. The war increased demand for such instruments and the War Office needed experimental thermionic valves. The manufacture of these components afforded the company the technical knowledge that it needed to develop the first "wireless" (as early radios were called) when the first UK broadcasts were made by the BBC in 1922....

  Woden Transformer Co of Moxley Road, Bilston, Staffs. Telephone: Bilston 41959. Cables: "Tranco, Bilston" 1940 February. Classified Advertisement in Flight Magazine: Transformers, coils, chargers, for low-voltage lighting and all purposes; keen prices quick delivery. —Woden Transformer Co, Thornley St., Wolverhampton. [ 1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of High quality Transformers, Chokes and Associated Equipment. Transformers for Radio and Industrial Purposes, Fluorescent Chokes, Tropicalised Components. Audio Amplifying Equipment, Microphones, Loud Speakers. (Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. C.1535) 1956 Patent - Improvements relating to electrically heated mesh screens or mesh panels.

Sako Hasegawa, JA1MP, established Yaesu Musen Company during 1959 in the Tokyo city suburb of Yaesu.  The Yaesu Musen company was predated by his earlier company, started in 1956 and called  the General Television Co Ltd . Hasegawa-san's first SSB Equipment was manufactured under the General Television Co Ltd name in 1957.  The ethos of this company and then Yaesu Musem was to design and manufacture modern HF single sideband equipment  for the amateur radio market.  The Yaesu Musen Company's first product was a crystal controlled mono-band 40 metre transmitter, designated the FL-10/40.  This was swiftly followed by a 5 band crystal controlled...