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active 1944-1954, laboratory apparatus & instrument maker, London, England

W and J George and Becker Limited

1910 - 1954
1938-c.2000, radio and television manufacturer, Berkshire, England

Decca Radio and Television Limited

1938 - 2000
1935-2008, electrical equipment designer and manufacturer: uses Panasonic as brand name, Japan

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

1935 - 2008
1937-1996, entertainment conglomerate, Britain

Rank Organisation

1937 - 1996
1935-1994, manufacturer of medical instruments, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States

Grass Instrument Company

1935
1936-1999, plastics manufacturer (optics), London, Slough; England, British

Combined Optical Industries Limited

1936 - 1999
1935-1996, cine projector manufacturer, Nuremburg

Noris Projektor

1935 - 1996
1936-c.1973, public address systems manufacturer, Wimbledon, England

Vortexion Ltd

1936 - 1973
1945-1964, camera and optical instrument maker, East Germany

VEB Carl Zeiss Jena, Jena

1905 - 1964
1943-2004, manufacturer of cryptographic and photographic equipment, Switzerland

Gretag AG

1943 - 2004
1936-1969, camera manufacturer, Ann Arbor

Argus Camera Company

1936
1951-1961, lens, camera and film manufacturer, London

Ross-Ensign Ltd

1904 - 1961
1944-current (2022), audio and video recording & data management and storage, California, USA

Ampex Corporation

1944
1935-1977, manufacturer, England, British

Hawker Siddeley

1935 - 1977
1942-2018, physicist, British

Stephen Hawking

1942 - 2018
1935-c.1981, television component and vacuum tube manufacturer, Cambridge, England

Cathodeon Ltd.

1935 - 1981
1943-1948, manufacturer of aircraft and ballpoint pens, Reading, England

Miles Aircraft Co

1943 - 1948
Professor

Stephen William Hawking

1942 - 2018
1935-1989, manufacturer of fire & smoke detection equipment & gas cylinders, Colnbrook, England

Walter Kidde Company Limited

1935 - 1989
1941-1993, manufacturer of optical equipment; camera manufacturer, Russia

Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk

1941 - 1993
1936-1961, telephone and electrical equipment manufacturer, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, British

Automatic Telephone and Electric Company Limited

1936 - 1961
active 1935-1960, aircraft component manufacturer, Lancashire, England

De Havilland Propellers Limited

1935 - 1960
1936-c. 2005, manufacturer of electronic measuring and laboratory equipment, Croydon, England

H W Wallace and Company Limited

1936 - 2005
1935-1970, manufacturer of telegraphic cables, British

Submarine Cables Limited

1935 - 1970
1938-1980, singer-songwriter, poet, actor, Russian, USSR

Vladimir Vysotsky

1938 - 1980
1944; railway employee, railway engineer, railway engineering manager, railway company director

David Rollin

1944 - 2021
1940-1990s, manufacturer of pharmaceutical preparations, Epsom, Surrey, England

Willows Francis Limited

1940 - 1997
1936-2020; railway employee, railway manager, railway company director, railway board member, railway company director

John Christopher Paul Edmonds

1936 - 2020
1940-1952, potteries, Cobridge, England

North Staffordshire Pottery Company Limited

1940 - 1952
1935-2000, cosmonaut, Russian

Gherman Titov

1935 - 2000
1941-1972, photographer, British; English

Tony Ray-Jones

1941 - 1972
1944; transport employee, trade union member, trade union leader, Member of the House of Lords

Richard Andrew Rosser

1944 - 2024
1940-2005, camera manufacturer, Japan

Mamiya

1940 - 2006
1935-1994, illustrator (for The Eagle); comic strip artist, British

Keith Watson

1935 - 1994
artist; photographer

Cutting, Laurence

1939 - 2013
artist; photographer; local historian

Roger Birch

1941 - 2013
1943-1959, newspaper owners including Sunday Times, newspaper printers, England, British

Kemsley Newspapers Limited

1943
1943-2005, electro-acoustic musician, British

Hugh Davies

1943 - 2005
1935-1977, manufacturer of aircraft, Prestwick, Scotland

Scottish Aviation Limited

1935 - 1977
1941-1982, naval air squadron, United Kingdom

809 Squadron (Fleet Air Arm)

1941 - 1982
1937-1959, publisher, London, England

Hulton Press Limited

1937 - 1959

Hugh Davies

1943 - 2005
1940-1959, manufacturer of card games, British

Waddy Production

1940 - 1959
1941; civil servant, railway company director, railway board member, railway company director

John K. Welsby

1941 - 2021
1944-1991; photographer; UK

Roger Perry

1944 - 1991
1942-1999, photographer, India, Paris, London, New York

Raghubir Singh

1942 - 1999
1937+1973, transport company, Snderland

Sunderland Corporation Transport

1937 - 1973
1946; railway employee, railway manager, railway passenger manager, railway company director

Ivor William Warburton

1908
1936-1987, medical illustrator, British?

Cynthia Clarke

1936 - 1987

Save our Railways

1903 - 2001