Talk:English Electric

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Looks like some part of this company still persists at "e2v" - I guess the Phoenix Dynamo part - this comes from the "e2v" website:

DATE EVENT July 2004 e2v technologies floats on the London Stock Exchange 2003 e2v technologies acquires automotive security business from Dynex Semiconductors Ltd 2003 e2v technologies wins two Queens Awards for Enterprise in the International Trade Category for its Dental and Therapy business units. July 2002 Marconi Applied Technologies changes its name to e2v technologies. 2002 CCDs fly on ENVISAT satellite. 2002 Automotive radar components launched. 2001 Introduction of Ka-band Satcom amplifiers. 2001 Launch first L3Vision™, Low-Light CCD products. 2000 Employees from Witham move to Waterhouse Lane in a £2 million investment in high technology. 2000 Argus receives Queen's Award for Enterprise (Innovation). 1999 EEV changes its name to Marconi Applied Technologies. 1998 Keith Attwood appointed Managing Director. 1996 Acquisition of Philips Klystron assets. 1995 Acquisition of Plessey Semiconductors Microwave business. 1995 Win contract to supply passenger information boards to Chek Lap Kok Airport, Hong Kong. 1994 Launch of Stellar Amplifiers and Argus. 1991 Solar Panels launched into space. 1988 English Electric Valve Co. Ltd. formally changes its name to EEV Ltd. 1987 English Electric Valve receives Queen's Award for Technological Achievement for Pevicon and Fireman's Cameras. 1980 Factory at Witham is set up by Maurice Esterson and Brian Cooper. 1977 First English Electric Valve Pevicon Camera. 1973 English Electric Valve acquires assets of STC division responsible for its TV Broadcast Klystron business. 1960s First Quality Assurance system is put in place at English Electric Valve 1968 GEC acquires English Electric and thus English Electric Valve Co. Ltd. 1968 Birth of image intensifier group. EEV and M-OV combined when GEC acquired EEV 1964 English Electric Valve takes over AEI Valve business at Lincoln. 1961 English Electric Valve wins EMMY for outstanding contribution to Electronics Technology. 1960 First development of Ceramic Hydrogen Thyratrons. 1950s RB (Bob) Coulson establishes Travelling Wave Tube and Microwave Tube section. 1959 Jim Young appointed as English Electric Valve's first Managing Director. 1956 Jim Young succeeds Serge Eisenstein as General Manager. 1953 Our 3" image orthicons exclusively used for transmission of Coronation at Westminster Abbey to a worldwide audience. 1947 Name of company changes to English Electric Valve Company Ltd.  1947 Phoenix Dynamo Co Ltd formed.

Domestic appliances?
Through a lack of spare parts I recently had to scrap an English Electric tumble dryer that my mother bought in the late 70s. Very sad as unlike today's appliances the thing was built like a tank and weighed half as much. It had the EE logo on it as depicted in the article. I can find very little on the web about EE as an appliance manufacturer particularly the period and facilities in which they made them, can anyone expand on this? --DrFod 11:13, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

English Electric made the first automatic washing machine in the UK. It appeared at the same time as the Hoover twin tub. Hoover had a real consumer marketing department and EE did not. Hence at that time the twin tub predominated.

The motor in the machine was an italian design. At EE they removed half the copper from the motor. It ran cooler and more efficiently. Not all Italian design was of the Ferrari race horse variety. --wahiba (talk) 18:17, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Fuses & Liverpool
Why no mention of the electrical component manufacturing plant in Liverpool. respected globally for the fuses they manufactured?

Moving the page
A recent move war took place moving this article, English Electric, to English Electric Company. I oppose the move. My reading of Naming conventions (companies) and the English Electric history makes me conclude that if any move take place, it would be to English Electric Valve Company (correct historical name) or to e2v (current name). Beyond Wikipedia naming conventions is common usage: here I would have to bow to the English who've apparently always said "English Electric" when mentioning the organization and its products. If that's the case, I oppose any move at all. Binksternet (talk) 22:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Concur. Thanks for starting the thread on the topic - I planned to, but by the time I got around to it, you had already posted on it. When I looked up the name in my reference, I had fully expected it to say "English Electric Company", rather than "English Electric" as it is listed. For the record, the book is limited in scope to aircraft manufacturers. - BillCJ (talk) 22:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I second that, if the English only referred to it as English Electric, then I also oppose the move.--DavidD4scnrt (talk) 20:28, 27 April 2008 (UTC)


 * "English Electric Valve" (incorporated 1947) would appear to have a been a subsidiary company as for "English Electric Power Transformers" (incorporated 1922) Ltd" "English Electric Domestic Appliances" (1962). This article (at the moment) is about the whole group rather than any specific subsidiary including English Electric Aviation, and the common name is just "English Electric".GraemeLeggett (talk) 10:27, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * advertisements for TV sets (to dealers) style the company in the address as "ENGLISH ELECTRIC Co. Ltd."GraemeLeggett (talk) 10:52, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Locomotive building in Australia
My understanding, EE was defunct in 1968 however the name English Electric was used in Rocklea, Queensland up till 1972, when then was branded as GEC.

There is a class here in Tasmania, the "Z" Class when have built by English Electric. The "ZA" Class has built by GEC of Australia. Same as the old QR 2350/Tasrail ZB. The older 1300/ZCs have all EE branding.

Also, is there any books about EE in Australia?

Sounds like EE was such amazing company. Pity its lost. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slenut (talk • contribs) 01:09, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Deltic
Long shot - but if anyone reading this has internal knowledge of EE's rail division in the 1950s/60s please talk a look at Talk:British_Railways_DP1 - a question on whether or not the name "DP1" was an invention of the 1960s for a 1950s build..

(Please answer there, any other info. also gratefully received as always) Prof.Haddock (talk) 16:16, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

QR code installed
Toodyaypedia article QR code in place Elrebe56 (talk) 07:43, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Errata?
This article states "the Vampire jet, the world's fastest aircraft, which could exceed 500mph by a considerable margin" but the wikipedia article about the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet, states "1,130 km/h (700 mph)", I know that one shoul not reference other wikipedia articles for proof, but I believe that the Komet was faster, if you want I can search for a more appropiate source. I left to other to change the text, to probably state "jet powered" or something else.

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