Sunvic Controls
of Stanhope House, Kean Street, Aldwych, London, WC2. Telephone: Temple Bar 7064 (5 lines). Cables: "Sunvic, Estrand, London"
1933 Company formed, within the AEI group; responsible for sales of a vacuum switch developed by Metropolitan-Vickers.
1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Relays: Electronic Hotwire and Bimetal. "No-loss" Energy Regulators. Time Delays, Thermostats: Adjustable Glass-sealed Oven and Water-heater. Ambient Temperature Recorders. Resistance Thermometer and Toluene Regulator Controllers. Simmerstat Hot-plate Controls. Electronic Relay. (Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. A.1041) [2]
By 1952 was a fully-owned subsidiary of AEI
1955 The factory was located at Harlow[3]
1957 Responsible for the complete instrumentation for the 3 Merlin nuclear research reactors under development and for instrumentation for the Berkeley Nuclear Power Station[4]
Notes
- Now located near Glasgow, in Scotland, the company has its own website: [1]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia. Volume VIII. Engineering. Oxford University Press, 1955.
- ↑ 1947 British Industries Fair p268
- ↑ The Times, Aug. 10, 1955
- ↑ The Times, Apr 04, 1957