Automatic Coil Winder and Electrical Equipment Co
Makers of Avometer, of Winder House, Douglas St, London SW.
1923 Private company formed.
Donald Macadie, a Post Office engineer, dissatisfied with having to carry many separate instruments, invented a meter that could measure Amps, Volts and Ohms - the multifunction meter was named AVO. Macadie took his idea to the Automatic Coil Winder and Electrical Equipment Co. The first AVO was put on sale in 1923, initially a DC-only instrument. Many of its features remained almost unaltered right through to the last AVO Model 8.
1957 Address: Avocet House, Vauxhall Bridge Rd, London[1].
1957 Became public company: Avo Ltd, of Avocet House, Vauxhall Bridge Rd, London, to manufacture instruments with the AVO trademark.
1959 Metal Industries Ltd acquired Avo Ltd, including its subsidiary Taylor Electrical Instruments Ltd[2]
1961 Manufacturers of electrical, electronic and nucleonic measuring instruments and coil winding machines. 700 employees. [3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, 28 May 1957
- ↑ The Times, 8 July 1959
- ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
- Wikipedia [1]