Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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M-O Valve Co

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July 1945.
May 1960.

of Brook Green, Hammersmith, London.


1919 Private company.

1920 The name of the Marconi-Osram Valve Co was changed to M-O Valve Co[1].

1920 Jan. Physical and Optical Societies Exhibition. Exhibited wireless telegraphy.

1927 Recorded as being a subsidiary of GEC

1929 Gramophone Co acquired Marconiphone Co as well as Marconi's share in M-O Valve[2].

Continued to supply valves to Marconi.

1956 GEC purchased EMI's share in the M-O Valve company.

1958 Business had been focussed on thermionic devices for telecommunications, radar and military, and cathode ray tubes[3]

1961 Manufacturers of electronic and thermionic valves, cathode ray tubes and devices, magnatrons, hydrogen thyratrons, klystrons, backward wave oscillators, travelling waves tubes, T.R. cells and geiger-muller counters. 1,500 employees.

1969 Formation of GEC Electronic Tubes to bring together M-O Valve Co and English Electric Valve Co, a company which would have half of UK valve production, the largest specialised valve manufacturer outside USA[4].

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Sources of Information

  1. Competition Commission [1]
  2. Competition Commission [2]
  3. The Times, Sep 05, 1958
  4. The Times, 22 April 1969