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Bridging the Gap

Made:: 1929

part of archive:: Peter Dawson Collection

maker:: Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co Ltd

A brief outline of some of the activities of the research organisation of Metropolitan_Vickers Electrical Co Ltd at Trafford Park.

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Identifier:: YA1996.1735/MS0531/10

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YA1996.1735/MS0531/1 The Westinghouse Works, Manchester
YA1996.1735/MS0531/10 Bridging the Gap
YA1996.1735/MS0531/100 Cosmos Transformers for A.C. and Rectifying Valves
YA1996.1735/MS0531/101 Ediswan Radio Apparatus and Mazda Radio Valves
YA1996.1735/MS0531/102 Ediswan Radio Apparatus - C2 Cone RK, Loud Speakers, Gramaphone Pick-Ups, Etc
YA1996.1735/MS0531/103 Met-Vick A.C. Transformer for A.C. Valves - Type "A"
YA1996.1735/MS0531/104 The Wireless World and Radio Review Valve Data Sheet
YA1996.1735/MS0531/105 Met-Vick Electric Automatic Safety Kettles & Self-Regulating Automatic Safety Kettles
YA1996.1735/MS0531/106 Mazda Radio Valves
YA1996.1735/MS0531/107 Mazda Valves
YA1996.1735/MS0531/108 Original and Copy Photographs of Equipment, Studios and Broadcasters at the 2ZY Radio Station at Metropolitan-Vickers
YA1996.1735/MS0531/109 Transmission Book 5
YA1996.1735/MS0531/11 The Trafford Park Works of The Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co Ltd
YA1996.1735/MS0531/110 Transmission Book 6
YA1996.1735/MS0531/111 Lord Gainsford's Speech on the Night of the opening of the New Studio of The British Broadcasting Co Ltd at 2 Savoy Hill
YA1996.1735/MS0531/112 Miller-Chapman, Pauline
YA1996.1735/MS0531/113 Report No. R.2337 Report on the Development of Broadcasting at the Temporary Manchester Station
YA1996.1735/MS0531/114 Flemings Files of Radio Programmes of the Temporary Broadcasting Station "2ZY"
YA1996.1735/MS0531/115 Miscellaneous Write-ups Concerning Early History of Radio Broadcasting
YA1996.1735/MS0531/116 Broadcasting in America
YA1996.1735/MS0531/117 2 ZY Press Cuttings
YA1996.1735/MS0531/118 Correspondence with Radio Communication Co Ltd and the British Broadcasting Co Ltd regarding radio broadcasting from Metropolitan-Vickers temporary radio station 2ZY
YA1996.1735/MS0531/119 Memorandum and Articles of Association of British Broadcasting Company Ltd and Reports of Broadcasting Committees
YA1996.1735/MS0531/12 Laying Corner Stone, Westinghouse Works, Manchester
YA1996.1735/MS0531/120 Report on Radio Telephony in Germany
YA1996.1735/MS0531/121 GEC - The First Decade
YA1996.1735/MS0531/122 GEC Is Working
YA1996.1735/MS0531/123 GEC In 78 - Britain's Largest Private Employer
YA1996.1735/MS0531/124 GEC In Action
YA1996.1735/MS0531/125 GEC 79 - Britain's Largest Private Employer
YA1996.1735/MS0531/126 GEC 79 - Britain's Largest Private Employer
YA1996.1735/MS0531/127 Into The 80's
YA1996.1735/MS0531/128 Into The 80's
YA1996.1735/MS0531/129 GEC Alsthom (M& I) Ltd
YA1996.1735/MS0531/13 A Great Electrical Concern
YA1996.1735/MS0531/130 GEC Review Of Activities 1980
YA1996.1735/MS0531/131 Review Of Activities - GEC 81
YA1996.1735/MS0531/132 Review Of Activities - GEC 81
YA1996.1735/MS0531/133 GEC 81 Another Year Of Success
YA1996.1735/MS0531/134 GEC 81 Another Year Of Success
YA1996.1735/MS0531/135 GEC Review Of Operations 1984
YA1996.1735/MS0531/136 GEC Review Of Operations 1984
YA1996.1735/MS0531/137 GEC In Action
YA1996.1735/MS0531/138 GEC Review Of Activities 1980
YA1996.1735/MS0531/139 Transmission and Distribution - GEC Power Engineering
YA1996.1735/MS0531/14 Westinghouse, The Masterly Ways of Americans
YA1996.1735/MS0531/140 GEC Review Vol. 2, No. 2
YA1996.1735/MS0531/141 GEC Report & Accounts 1987
YA1996.1735/MS0531/142 GEC Power Engineering Limited
YA1996.1735/MS0531/143 Folder of Photographic Prints and Reports
YA1996.1735/MS0531/144 GEC Review Vol. 5, No. 3
YA1996.1735/MS0531/145 Visit of Sir Christopher Hinton and Members of the Central Electricity Generating Board
YA1996.1735/MS0531/146 Future Vol 7, No. 1, Feb/Mar 1952
YA1996.1735/MS0531/147 Trafford Park Handbook 1963
YA1996.1735/MS0531/148 AEI News Vol. 9 No. 6
YA1996.1735/MS0531/149 The Mozelle Sassoon High Voltage X-Ray Therapy Department
YA1996.1735/MS0531/15 The Lancashire Anti-Submarine Committee
YA1996.1735/MS0531/150 For your Benefit
YA1996.1735/MS0531/151 Introductory Information
YA1996.1735/MS0531/152 The Metropolitan-Vickers School
YA1996.1735/MS0531/153 Research Department
YA1996.1735/MS0531/154 Who Are We? - Qui Sommes-Nous?
YA1996.1735/MS0531/155 Internal Telephone Directories
YA1996.1735/MS0531/156 L.21C Gas Turbine
YA1996.1735/MS0531/157 The Development of an Axial Flow Gas Turbine for Jet Propulsion
YA1996.1735/MS0531/158 Metropolitan-Vickers Jet Propulsion Engines
YA1996.1735/MS0531/159 Practical Aspects of Cascade Wind Tunnel Research
YA1996.1735/MS0531/16 The Lancashire Anti-Submarine Committee
YA1996.1735/MS0531/160 Sea Trial of M.G.B. 2009
YA1996.1735/MS0531/161 Post-War Production of Electric, Diesel-Electric and Gas Turbine Locomotives
YA1996.1735/MS0531/162 The First British-Built Gas Turbine Locomotive
YA1996.1735/MS0531/163 British-Built Gas-Turbine Locomotive
YA1996.1735/MS0531/164 First Marine Gas Turbine in Service
YA1996.1735/MS0531/165 A 5500 b.h.p. Marine Gas Turbine
YA1996.1735/MS0531/166 A Jet-Propelled Flying Boat Fighter - Beryl Engines in the Saunders-Roe SR/A1
YA1996.1735/MS0531/167 British Base-Load Set Commissioned in Venezuela
YA1996.1735/MS0531/168 Propulsion Turbines for Blue Funnel Cargo Liners
YA1996.1735/MS0531/169 A Gas-Turbine Power Station
YA1996.1735/MS0531/17 Report on War Activities On Radio In The Research Department
YA1996.1735/MS0531/170 L.51C Gas Turbine
YA1996.1735/MS0531/171 Gas turbine-generators at Norwich Thorpe Power Station
YA1996.1735/MS0531/172 Extra Power - Gas Turbines
YA1996.1735/MS0531/173 Packaged power from the AP1 gas turbine is as easy as A B C
YA1996.1735/MS0531/174 Metropolitan Vickers Jubilee Press Cuttings with Correspondence
YA1996.1735/MS0531/175 GEC Power Engineering Limited
YA1996.1735/MS0531/176 The General Electric Company Ltd - Britain's Largest Electrical and Electronics Company
YA1996.1735/MS0531/177 GEC at Trafford Park
YA1996.1735/MS0531/178 85 Years In Trafford Park
YA1996.1735/MS0531/179 Modern Engineering Practice and Methods of Training
YA1996.1735/MS0531/18 Report on War Activities Of The Electrical And Magnetic Laboratory
YA1996.1735/MS0531/180 Education for Industry
YA1996.1735/MS0531/181 Education for Industry
YA1996.1735/MS0531/182 The New Transformer Works at Wythenshawe
YA1996.1735/MS0531/183 The Model Engineer Vol. 79. No. 1964
YA1996.1735/MS0531/184 The Organisation of AEI (Appendices)
YA1996.1735/MS0531/185 The History of AEI
YA1996.1735/MS0531/186 The Organisation of AEI 1 - Historical
YA1996.1735/MS0531/187 The Organisation of AEI 2 - The Present Organisation
YA1996.1735/MS0531/188 Welcome to the Trafford Park Works
YA1996.1735/MS0531/19 Memorandum On Chain-Home (C.H.) Transmitting Equipment
YA1996.1735/MS0531/2 "The Holy Forty"
YA1996.1735/MS0531/20 C.H. (Chain) Transmitters
YA1996.1735/MS0531/21 Checking The Nazi Bomber "Radiolocation" - First Account of a New Weapon
YA1996.1735/MS0531/22 Correspondence and Memos congratulating meeting production targets
YA1996.1735/MS0531/23 Trigatron and Triggered Spark Gap
YA1996.1735/MS0531/24 War Inventions Award - Reports
YA1996.1735/MS0531/25 Report on War Activities On Radio In the Research Department
YA1996.1735/MS0531/26 The Work of the Metropolitan-Vickers Research Department on Radio Location Prior to 1939
YA1996.1735/MS0531/27 Checking The Nazi Bomber "Radiolocation" - First Account of a New Weapon
YA1996.1735/MS0531/28 Correspondence and Memos congratulating meeting production targets
YA1996.1735/MS0531/281 Organisation of M-V Research Department
YA1996.1735/MS0531/29 Work of the Metropolitan-Vickers Research Department on Radio Location and Radio Direction Finding
YA1996.1735/MS0531/3 Salary Record Book
YA1996.1735/MS0531/30 Trigatron and Triggered Spark Gap
YA1996.1735/MS0531/31 Contribution To Victory
YA1996.1735/MS0531/32 Reports,Memos and Notes etc on Chain Home and Radio Location Finder
YA1996.1735/MS0531/33 The Lancashire Anti-Submarine Committee
YA1996.1735/MS0531/34 Fermi Inventions - G.M. Giannini
YA1996.1735/MS0531/35 Miscellaneous Inventions 1-15
YA1996.1735/MS0531/36 Miscellaneous Inventions 36-69
YA1996.1735/MS0531/37 Miscellaneous Inventions 70-118
YA1996.1735/MS0531/38 Miscellaneous Inventions 119-130
YA1996.1735/MS0531/39 BTH Reminiscences - Sixty Years Of Progress
YA1996.1735/MS0531/4 Ex-British Westinghouse Association
YA1996.1735/MS0531/40 Early Histories Of Some Companies Of The English Electric Group
YA1996.1735/MS0531/41 Electricity In Transport
YA1996.1735/MS0531/42 Forty Years Of Electrical Progress - The Story of the G.E.C.
YA1996.1735/MS0531/43 The G.E.C. - Its History, Structure and the Future
YA1996.1735/MS0531/44 Research Laboratories of The G.E.C.
YA1996.1735/MS0531/45 The English Electric Company Limited
YA1996.1735/MS0531/46 Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st March 1983
YA1996.1735/MS0531/47 The General Electric Company p.l.c. Reports and Accounts 1989
YA1996.1735/MS0531/48 Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st March 1979
YA1996.1735/MS0531/49 GEC Annual Report 1986
YA1996.1735/MS0531/5 Historical Review of The Trafford Park Works of Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co Ltd
YA1996.1735/MS0531/50 Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st March 1984
YA1996.1735/MS0531/51 Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st March 1981
YA1996.1735/MS0531/52 The General Electric Company Limited Anti-Report - CIS
YA1996.1735/MS0531/53 GEC Report and Accounts 1984/1985
YA1996.1735/MS0531/54 Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st March 1978
YA1996.1735/MS0531/55 Report and Accounts for the year ended 31st March 1975
YA1996.1735/MS0531/56 Report and Accounts for the year ending 31st March 1980
YA1996.1735/MS0531/57 GEC Review of Operations - 1983
YA1996.1735/MS0531/58 GEC Hirst Research Centre
YA1996.1735/MS0531/59 Books written by staff of the Metropolitan-Vickers/AEI Research Department.
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/59/1 Insulation and Design of Electrical Windings
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/59/2 Engineering as a Profession
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/59/3 The Principles of Apprentice Training
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/59/4 Research in Industry
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/59/5 An Introduction to the Principles of Industrial Administration
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/59/6 Modern Physics and Its Bearing on Engineering Progress
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/59/7 A History of Engineering
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/59/8 An Introduction to the Theory of Eddy-Current Heating
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/59/9 Making Electric Things Happen
YA1996.1735/MS0531/6 Technical Letter Series
YA1996.1735/MS0531/60 Books written by Metropolitan-Vickers/AEI technical staff.
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/60/1 Electrical Power Transmission and Interconnection
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/60/2 The Protective Gear Handbook
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/60/3 Electric Traction Handbook (Control)
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/60/4 The Switchgear Handbook Vol.1 Apparatus
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/60/5 The Switchgear Handbook Vol.2 Application
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/60/6 The Purpose and Practice of Motion Study (Second Edition)
- YA1996.1735/MS0531/60/7 Register of Ex-Apprentices and Ex-Trainees 1902-1957 (4th ed)
YA1996.1735/MS0531/61 Principal Products
YA1996.1735/MS0531/62 Principal Products
YA1996.1735/MS0531/63 Index to Publications and Instruction Books (E W King)
YA1996.1735/MS0531/64 Index to publications and instruction books (E W King)
YA1996.1735/MS0531/65 Cosmos Three-Valve Resistance Capacity Coupled Set
YA1996.1735/MS0531/66 Met-Vick "A.N.P." 4-Valve Set
YA1996.1735/MS0531/67 Cosmos 3-Valve Daventry - Local Resistance Capacity Coupled Set
YA1996.1735/MS0531/68 Cosmos Shortpath A.C. Valves and Battery Eliminators
YA1996.1735/MS0531/69 The Met-Vick Three Valve Set A.C. Mains or Battery Models
YA1996.1735/MS0531/7 A Famous Engineering Works
YA1996.1735/MS0531/70 Cosmos Transformers for A.C. and Rectifying Valves
YA1996.1735/MS0531/71 Met-Vick Patent Ceiling Plugs
YA1996.1735/MS0531/72 The Valve Catalogue - Receiving Valves
YA1996.1735/MS0531/73 Cosmos Radio Catalogue - Section R
YA1996.1735/MS0531/74 Building with Radio Brix
YA1996.1735/MS0531/75 Ediswan Radio Apparatus - Accessories and Constructors Components
YA1996.1735/MS0531/76 Cosmos Three-Valve Restistance Capacity Coupled Set
YA1996.1735/MS0531/77 BT-H Radio Receivers & Accessories
YA1996.1735/MS0531/78 The Wireless Catalogue
YA1996.1735/MS0531/79 The Valve Catalogue - Transmitting and Rectifying Valves
YA1996.1735/MS0531/8 1899-1949 Fifty Years In Brief
YA1996.1735/MS0531/80 Metro Vick (Cosmos) Wireless Catalogue
YA1996.1735/MS0531/81 The Mazda Valve Manual
YA1996.1735/MS0531/82 The Catalogue of Batteries - Dry & Fluid Cells
YA1996.1735/MS0531/83 Met-Vick "ANP" 4-Valve Set for Ordinary Valves
YA1996.1735/MS0531/84 Cosmos 3-Valve Daventry - Local Restance Capacity Coupled Set for Ordinary Valves
YA1996.1735/MS0531/85 Modern Met-Vick Fittings
YA1996.1735/MS0531/86 Health Culture by the B.E.L. - Violet Ray High Frequency Electric and Ozone Treatment
YA1996.1735/MS0531/87 The Met-Vick Five Valve Set Mains Operated
YA1996.1735/MS0531/88 The New Radio Realism with the Latest GECoPhone Radio Receivers & Gramaphone Reproducers
YA1996.1735/MS0531/89 Baird Television
YA1996.1735/MS0531/9 The Manufacture Of Power Plant
YA1996.1735/MS0531/90 Ultra Violet Ray Apparatus
YA1996.1735/MS0531/91 Pye 1936-1937 Radio
YA1996.1735/MS0531/92 Ekco-Scophony Television Receiver Models 201 and 202
YA1996.1735/MS0531/93 KB Radio 1936-1937
YA1996.1735/MS0531/94 The Tungar a patented device for charging accumulators from alternating current
YA1996.1735/MS0531/95 Litlux The Non-glare bed light M-V Patterns
YA1996.1735/MS0531/96 Loud Speakers, Head Telephones and Gramaphone Equipment
YA1996.1735/MS0531/97 Osram Music Magnet - The three-valve radio set with a five valve performance
YA1996.1735/MS0531/98 Cosmos 3-Valve Daventry - Local Resistance Capacity Coupled Set
YA1996.1735/MS0531/99 The Met-Vick Elastic Aerial Unit