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 167,818 pages of information and 247,161 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Orange

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1991 Licences were issued to provide mobile telephone services in the UK using digital technology for personal communications networks - these were taken up by Mercury Personal Communications Ltd and Orange. Orange was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hutchison Telecom (UK) Ltd

1996 Owned by Hutchison Whampoa and British Aerospace[1]; public offering of shares in the parent company, Orange plc.

2001 Acquired by France Telecom

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Feb. 17, 1996