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A. H. Hunt

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July 1906.
July 1908.
June 1909.
December 1931.
December 1931. Hellesens.
November 1945.
November 1946.
December 1946.
September 1947
January 1949.
May 1949.
September 1953.
June 1955.

of Bendon Valley, Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, London, SW18.

of Essex, Surrey, and Wrexham, North Wales.

1901 Company founded.

1906 Agents for Hellesen dry batteries

1910 Specialities included Hellesen dry batteries, as well as coils, cross bar, all-metal switches, accumulators, portable dry battery hand lamps, adjustable belt fasteners, and combined belt punch and cutter. The accumulators were made in London under an entirely new process, by which means the cost is very greatly reduced.

1922 Became private company.

1931 Advert: Hellesens batteries and accumulators.

1947 Became public company.

1951 Name changed to A. H. Hunt (Capacitors) Ltd.

1961 Specialists in capacitor design and manufacture for all radio, electronic and electrical power uses. Industrial applications include power factor improvement, phase splitting, fluorescent and discharge lighting, motor starting and running, H.F. and R.F. heating, radio transmission, telephone installations, ignition and interference suppression. [1]

1967 Acquired by Erie Resistor.[2]

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Sources of Information

  1. 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  2. Birmingham Daily Post - 03 August 1967