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Alfred Graham and Co

From Graces Guide
February 1911.
1911. Naval telephones.
February 1921.
1921.
1922.
June 1923. Sparton horn.
October 1923.
June 1924.

of St. Andrew's Works, Crofton Park, London, SE4

Manufacturers of ship telephones; later producers of Amplion

Late 1880s: established as partnership between Alfred Graham, Edward Graham and (Joseph) Arthur Dearlove[1].

1894 Company established.

1894 "Mr Alfred Graham's" ingenious loudspeaking telephone was used in scientific research on acoustics[2].

1911 New factory set up at Brackley[3].

1914 Electrical engineers and contractors. Specialities: loud speaking telephones, exchange switchboards and other apparatus for communication on board war and mercantile vessels, for use in power stations, mines, collieries etc. Employees 300. [4]

1919 "No less than 12000 ship installations" of Graham's telephones had been made[5].

1920 New company established Graham Amplion Ltd to manufacture and market Amplion loudspeakers[6].

1922 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Gramophones of quality and distinction (Algraphones); Spring Motors; "Sonat" Sound Boxes; Record Filing System; also Gramophone Components and Accessories. (Stand No. B.27) [7]

1925 Advert for Amplion public address system manufactured by Alfred Graham and Co[8].

1929 Ground-air wireless demonstrated for instructional purposes[9].

1937 Advert for Triton telephones and Graham patent indicator for rudders[10].

1938 Altered memorandum of association to include pension[11].

1952 Subsidiary of Siemens Bros - designed starter relays for Xenon lamps for HMS Eagle[12].

1954 Listed as one of the principal subsidiaries of Siemens Bros as manufacturers of miscellaneous electrical equipment, on the take-over by AEI[13].

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Sources of Information

  1. [1]
  2. The Times, 15 January 1895
  3. [2]
  4. 1914 Whitakers Red Book
  5. [3]
  6. [4]
  7. 1922 British Industries Fair p32
  8. The Times, 23 May 1925
  9. The Times, 26 November 1929
  10. The Times, 7 September 1937
  11. The Times, 16 March 1938
  12. The Times, 1 July 1952
  13. The Times, 21 December 1954