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1940 Introduced a new light for use with life-rafts. | 1940 Introduced a new light for use with life-rafts. | ||
1949 [[Kolster-Brandes]] radios were designed to the specification of the company for use on the Cunard Liners, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary and Caronia.<ref>The Times Aug. 19, 1949</ref> | |||
1966 George Montague PARSONS, Esq., Chief Radio Officer, [[RMS Queen Elizabeth|R.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth"]], International Marine Radio Company Ltd., was awarded an MBE<ref>London Gazette 3 June 1966</ref> | 1966 George Montague PARSONS, Esq., Chief Radio Officer, [[RMS Queen Elizabeth|R.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth"]], International Marine Radio Company Ltd., was awarded an MBE<ref>London Gazette 3 June 1966</ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 17:57, 12 January 2025
of Connaught House, Aldwych, W.C.2. (NB this is the same address as STC).
1930 Private company registered, dealing in telephonic and telegraphic apparatus; the directors included both American and British citizens, the latter including George Howard Nash, Francis Joseph Edwin Brake, Alexander Davidson, Commander Richard L. Nicholson, Frank Gill and Edwin Stanley Byng.[1] The company was a subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation[2]. Shareholders in Marconi International Marine Communications Co expressed concern that this was a way for ITT to get around the undertaking made at the time of the formation of STC not to engage in marine communications.[3]
1932 Campbell and Isherwood of Bootle started work making generators and other parts for marine wireless equipment under licence from International Marine Radio Co[4]
1934 Won the right to instal radio equipment on the new '534'[5]
1939 Demonstration of a new speech and music-reproduction system given on board a ship in the London Docks by the company in collaboration with British Ozaphone, Ltd.
1940 Introduced a new light for use with life-rafts.
1949 Kolster-Brandes radios were designed to the specification of the company for use on the Cunard Liners, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary and Caronia.[6]
1966 George Montague PARSONS, Esq., Chief Radio Officer, R.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth", International Marine Radio Company Ltd., was awarded an MBE[7]
1975 Part of Standard Telephones and Cables when a pension scheme closed[8]