User:Rich Farmbrough/The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation (Technology) (1968)

The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation (Technology) (1968) was awarded on 21 April 1968, by Queen Elizabeth II.

Recipients
The following seventeen organisations were awarded this year.
 * The Bradford Dyers' Association Ltd of, Bradford, for technological innovation in the printing of tufted carpets by Carpet Printers Ltd of Manchester.
 * Brecknell, Dolman & Rogers Ltd of Bristol, for technological innovation in food packaging machines.
 * British Ropes Ltd of Doncaster, for technological innovation in the commercial development of cordage made from fibrillated polypropylene by the Fibres and Plastics Division..
 * Decca Radar Ltd of London, SE1, for technological innovation in a radar system for small boats by the Marine Radar Division.
 * Doulton Industrial Products Ltd of, Stone, Staffordshire, for technological innovation in pre-formed precision ceramic cores for investment casting by that company and by Doulton Research Ltd of Chertsey, Surrey.
 * Electric and Musical Industries Ltd of Hayes, Middlesex, for technological innovation in a colour television camera by that company and by E.M.I. Electronics Ltd.
 * The General Electric Co. Ltd of, London, W1, for technological innovation in double-focussing mass spectrometers by GEC-AEI (Electronics) Ltd of Scientific Apparatus Division, Manchester, and in electronic control devices and equipment for use in coal mining by the New Parks, Leicester, factory of GEC-AEI Automation Ltd.
 * Hilger & Watts Ltd of London, NW1, for technological innovation in a novel computer-controlled X-ray diffractometer.
 * International Computers and Tabulators Ltd of London, SW15, for technological innovation in the 1900 series of computers.
 * Norstel & Templewood Hawksley Ltd of Slough, for technological innovation in sewage plant machinery.
 * North Western Gas Board of Altrincham, Cheshire, for technological innovation in a process for the purification of gas streams.
 * Rubber and Plastics Research Association of Great Britain of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, for technological innovation in the vulcanisation of rubber.
 * Smith & Nephew Plastics Ltd of, Hull, for technological innovation in the production of plastic nets by that company at Hull and Welwyn Garden City and by Smith & Nephew Research Ltd of Harlow, Essex.
 * Smiths Industries Ltd of London, NW2, for technological innovation in a fish detection system by the Kelvin Hughes Division, Hainault, Essex.
 * Tube Investments Ltd of, London, SW1, for technological innovation in the production of high quality seamless steel tubes by the Development Engineering Department, Aldridge, Staffordshire, and by Tubes Ltd of Birmingham.
 * Twentieth Century Electronics Ltd of New Addington, Surrey, for technological innovation in isotopes and associated equipment.
 * Welwyn Electric Ltd of Bedlington, Northumberland, for technological innovation in the development of ceramic-based tin oxide resistors.
 * Wolstenholme Bronze Powders Ltd of Bolton for export achievement.