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

W and J George and Becker Limited

1910 - 1954
1935-1994, manufacturer of medical instruments, Quincy, Massachusetts, United States

Grass Instrument Company

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

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

1935 - 2008
1938-c.2000, radio and television manufacturer, Berkshire, England

Decca Radio and Television Limited

1938 - 2000
1937-1996, entertainment conglomerate, Britain

Rank Organisation

1937 - 1996
1936-1999, plastics manufacturer (optics), London, Slough; England, British

Combined Optical Industries Limited

1936 - 1999
1944-current (2022), audio and video recording & data management and storage, California, USA

Ampex Corporation

1944
1947-1966, marine and aero navigation instrument designer; manufacturer, British

Kelvin and Hughes Limited

1947 - 1966
1936-c.1973, public address systems manufacturer, Wimbledon, England

Vortexion Ltd

1936 - 1973
1943-1959, newspaper owners including Sunday Times, newspaper printers, England, British

Kemsley Newspapers Limited

1943
1935-1996, cine projector manufacturer, Nuremburg

Noris Projektor

1935 - 1996
1945-1985, manufacturer of electronic equipment (acoustic devices), United Kingdom

Dawe Instruments Limited

1945
1936-1969, camera manufacturer, Ann Arbor

Argus Camera Company

1936
1947-current (2011), biochemist, pathologist, Colombian

Patarroyo, Manuel Elkin

1946
1943-2004, manufacturer of cryptographic and photographic equipment, Switzerland

Gretag AG

1943 - 2004
1935-1960, camera manufacturer, Windsor

Specto Ltd

1935 - 1960
1946; railway employee, railway clerk, railway manager, railway company director

Eccles, Graham

1946
1935-1995, pharmaceuticals manufacturer, Greenford, Middlesex, England, British

Glaxo Laboratories Limited

1935
1945-current (2010), manufacturer of consumer electronics, Nuremberg, Germany

Grundig

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

VEB Carl Zeiss Jena

1905 - 1964
1945-1978, manufacturer of cathode ray tubes, optic and radiation sensors, England

Twentieth Century Electronics Limited

1945 - 1978
1946; soldier, railway industry body director

Lyons, General Adrian

1946
1951-1961, lens, camera and film manufacturer, London

Ross-Ensign Ltd

1904 - 1961
1935-1977, manufacturer, England, British

Hawker Siddeley

1935 - 1977
1942-2018, physicist, British

Hawking, Stephen

1942 - 2018
1946-1968, manufacturer of balances, London, England

Stanton Instruments Limited

1946 - 1968
Founded 1966, artist collective, Japan

Computer Technique Group

1912
1946; railway employee, railway manager, railway passenger manager, railway company director

Warburton, Ivor William

1908
1939-1990, optical and image processing equipment manufacturer, Delft

Oldelft

1939
1935-c.1981, television component and vacuum tube manufacturer, Cambridge, England

Cathodeon Ltd.

1935 - 1981

Hawking, Stephen William

1942 - 2018
1944; railway employee, railway manager, railway freight manager, railway company director

Worrall, Terence Paul

1944
1945-2000, manufacturer of insulated cables, Helsby, England

British Insulated Callenders Cables Plc

1945 - 2000
1943-1948, manufacturer of aircraft and ballpoint pens, Reading, England

Miles Aircraft Co

1943 - 1948
1941-1993, manufacturer of optical equipment; camera manufacturer, Russia

Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk

1941 - 1993
1918-current (2021), brand name; manufacturer of electronics, Japan

Panasonic

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

Walter Kidde Company Limited

1935 - 1989
active 1939-current (2010), research institute, British

The Burden Neurological Institute

1939
1947-1990s; aircraft maintenance, manufacturer of electronic equipment; Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, England

Airtech Ltd

1947 - 1999
1946; businessman, banker, government railway body director

Salmon, Roger

1946
1937-present, newspaper, Sheffield

The Sheffield Star

1937
1945; clergy, personnel manager, railway personnel manager, clergy

Deboo, Alan John

1945
1947-2008, electronics manufacturer, Japanese

Sanyo

1947 - 2008
active 1947-c. 1997, manufacturer of printing plates,

Nickeloid Limited

1947 - 1998
1944; railway signalling engineer, railway manager, railway planning manager, railway company director, civil servant

Reed, Malcolm C.

1944
1939-current (2011), pro-provost; chairman; director, English; British

Cossons, Sir Neil

1939
active 1937-current (2011), manufacturer of pharmaceuticals, English subsiduary of American company

Abbott Laboratories Limited

1937
1944; transport employee, trade union member, trade union leader, Member of the House of Lords

Rosser, Lord Richard Andrew

1944 - 2024
1936-c. 2005, manufacturer of electronic measuring and laboratory equipment, Croydon, England

H W Wallace and Company Limited

1936 - 2005
1940-1952, potteries, Cobridge, England

North Staffordshire Pottery Company Limited

1940 - 1952