Difference between revisions of "Vidor"
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* Sometime after 1928 T. N. Cole, managing director of [[Lissen]], left | * WW1: production was concentrated on the war effort including torches, torch batteries, searchlights and sirens. | ||
* Post WW1: [[Vidor]] was in a poor financial state. | |||
* 1925 Ever Ready, interested in the works, purchased the company. The works went on to employ nearly 3000 people and produced large numbers of dry batteries and radio receivers. | |||
* Sometime after 1928 T. N. Cole, managing director of [[Lissen]], left that company which had been taken over by [[Ever Ready Co (Great Britain)|Ever-Ready]] and set up the [[Vidor]] battery company, in direct competition with Lissen/Ever-Ready. | |||
* 1939 [[Vidor]] portable radio shown at National Radio Exhibition<ref>The Times, 24 August 1939</ref>. | * 1939 [[Vidor]] portable radio shown at National Radio Exhibition<ref>The Times, 24 August 1939</ref>. |
Revision as of 10:35, 26 August 2010
Battery and / or radio manufacturer
- WW1: production was concentrated on the war effort including torches, torch batteries, searchlights and sirens.
- Post WW1: Vidor was in a poor financial state.
- 1925 Ever Ready, interested in the works, purchased the company. The works went on to employ nearly 3000 people and produced large numbers of dry batteries and radio receivers.
- Sometime after 1928 T. N. Cole, managing director of Lissen, left that company which had been taken over by Ever-Ready and set up the Vidor battery company, in direct competition with Lissen/Ever-Ready.
- 1963 Royston Industries reorganized its Vidor battery company[2].