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International Marine Radio Co

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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]

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.

1966 George Montague PARSONS, Esq., Chief Radio Officer, R.M.S. "Queen Elizabeth", International Marine Radio Company Ltd., was awarded an MBE[3]

1975 Part of Standard Telephones and Cables when a pension scheme closed[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Feb. 21, 1930
  2. The Times Mar. 6, 1930
  3. London Gazette 3 June 1966
  4. London Gazette 19 February 1998