Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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GEC (Electronics)

From Graces Guide

1961 As part of the strategy to form its manufacturing divisions into subsidiary companies, GEC split its telecommunications group into 2 new companies: GEC (Telecommunications) and GEC (Electronics)[1]

1966 Ceased production in some of its North Wembley works[2]

1966 GEC Electronics Communications received an order from the Home Office for 2-way radios for the police[3]

1967 GEC reorganised its computer business, combining GEC Computers and Automation with that of GEC Electronics to bring together the related expertise in automation[4]

c.1968 Combined with the related AEI businesses as GEC-AEI (Electronics)

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Oct 26, 1961
  2. The Times Jan. 6, 1966
  3. The Times Aug. 16, 1966
  4. The Times June 21, 1967