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

Dawe Instruments Limited

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

Twentieth Century Electronics Limited

1945 - 1978
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
1942-2018, physicist, British

Stephen Hawking

1942 - 2018
1943-1948, manufacturer of aircraft and ballpoint pens, Reading, England

Miles Aircraft Co

1943 - 1948
Professor

Stephen William Hawking

1942 - 2018
1945-2000, manufacturer of insulated cables, Helsby, England

British Insulated Callenders Cables Plc

1945 - 2000
1941-1993, manufacturer of optical equipment; camera manufacturer, Russia

Mechanical Factory of Krasnogorsk

1941 - 1993
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
1940-1952, potteries, Cobridge, England

North Staffordshire Pottery Company Limited

1940 - 1952
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
1941-1972, photographer, British; English

Tony Ray-Jones

1941 - 1972
artist; photographer; local historian

Roger Birch

1941 - 2013
artist; photographer

Cutting, Laurence

1939 - 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
1941-1982, naval air squadron, United Kingdom

809 Squadron (Fleet Air Arm)

1941 - 1982

Hugh Davies

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

Waddy Production

1940 - 1959
1945-1970, camera manufacturer, Nordenham

Vredeborch

1945 - 1970
1941; civil servant, railway company director, railway board member, railway company director

John K. Welsby

1941 - 2021
active 1945-current, London, manufacturer

Megatron Limited

1945
1944-1991; photographer; UK

Roger Perry

1944 - 1991
1945-1948, camera manufacturer, London

Barnet Ensign Ltd

1945 - 1948
1942-1999, photographer, India, Paris, London, New York

Raghubir Singh

1942 - 1999
1945-active (2008), manufacturer,

Matisa Ltd

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

Grundig

1945
active 1939-1955, British government department, England

Ministry of Food

1939 - 1955
1946; railway employee, railway manager, railway passenger manager, railway company director

Ivor William Warburton

1908
Mr

Roy Alon

1942 - 2006
1939-1981, cine camera and projector manufacturer, St Etienne

Heurtier et Cie

1939 - 1981
1945; railway employee, railway clerk, railway manager, railway company director, transport company board member

Robert William Breakwell

1945

Save our Railways

1903 - 2001

William Rodney Ellis

1938 - 2016
Mr

John Anthony Twelves

1941 - 1996
1943-1945, army unit, British and Canadian

21st Army Group

1907 - 1908
photojournalism magazine published 1938-1957, United Kingdom

Picture Post Library

1938 - 1957
Mr

Holroyd Anthony Ray-Jones

1941 - 1972
Founded 1966, artist collective, Japan

Computer Technique Group

1912

Decca Navigator Company Limited

1945 - 1979
Mr

Peter John Stone

1944 - 2020
1943-2012, designer, British

Bill Moggridge

1943 - 2012