Collier-Marr Telephone and Electrical Manufacturing Co
1892 Prospectus issued. 'The company is formed for the purpose of manufacturing upon improved principles the various instruments and material required for telephonic communication, and with this object to acquire from the Collier Audible Telephone Syndicate Limited the patents and patent rights granted to Messrs. A. T. Collier and Alexander Marr, works in Derby-street. Manchester, including the plant, machinery, stock-in-trade, and effects of the said syndicate.'[1]
1892. Directors: J. W. Maclure, Chairman; S. Chester Thompson, Harry S. Foster; Arthur T. Collier and Alexander Marr; the last two being the patentees.[2]
A Collier-Marr telephone receiver, used by Marconi to receive the first translantic signal in Newfoundland, is on display at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford (see photo). Marconi handed this receiver to his assistant, asking 'Can you hear anything, Mr. Kemp?'
1895 Company wound up.[3]