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

W and J George and Becker Limited

1910 - 1954
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
1943-1959, newspaper owners including Sunday Times, newspaper printers, England, British

Kemsley Newspapers Limited

1943
1945-1985, manufacturer of electronic equipment (acoustic devices), United Kingdom

Dawe Instruments Limited

1945
1947-current (2011), biochemist, pathologist, Colombian

Patarroyo, Manuel Elkin

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

Gretag AG

1943 - 2004
1946; railway employee, railway clerk, railway manager, railway company director

Eccles, Graham

1946
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
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

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

Rosser, Lord Richard Andrew

1944 - 2024
1947-1996, surgical orthopaedic applicance manufacturer, English

Howmedica (U-K) Limited

1947 - 1996
1945; railway employee, railway clerk, railway manager, railway company director, transport company board member

Breakwell, Robert William

1945
born 1947, artist, British, UK

Richardson, Su

1947
1946; railway employee, railway manager, railway company board secretary, civil servant

Trewin, Peter

1946
1944; railway employee, railway engineer, railway engineering manager, railway company director

Rollin, David

1944 - 2021
1944; railway employee, railway civil engineer, railway civil engineering manager, civil engineering consultant

Fenwick, Thomas Hugh

1944
1945; railway employee, railway manager, railway policy director, consultant, civil servant, railway industry body director

Austin, Christopher A.

1945
1947-current (2022), microphone, headphone and audio system manufacturer, Vienna, Austria

AKG

1947
1946; railway employee, railway manager, railway company director

Jago, Christopher

1946
1947; railway employee, railway manager, personal assistant, railway freight manager, railway passenger manager, railway company director, railway infrastructure company director

Leah, Christopher Richard

1947
b. 1944, artist, English; British

Holmes, Keith

1944
1946-current (2021), multinational media conglomerate, electronics video and ICT manufacturer, Tokyo

Sony

1946
1946-1972, camera manufacturer, Germany

Dacora Kamerawerk

1946 - 1972

Davies, Hugh

1943 - 2005
1947; railway employee, railway operations manager, railway manager, personal assistant, logistics manager, transport industry body director

Miller, Graham Douglas N.

1947
1943-, physicist; radio astronomer, British

Burnell, Jocelyn Bell

1943
1944; railway employee, railway manager, station master, railway passenger manager, railway company chairman

Wharton-Street, David

1944
1949; railway employee, railway telecommunications engineer, railway company director, telecommunications engineer

Kessell, Clive

1907
1943-2005, electro-acoustic musician, British

Davies, Hugh

1943 - 2005

Hedges, Nick

194
1945; railway employee, railway civil engineer, railway civil engineering manager, railway infrastructure manager

Spoors, Richard John

1912
1947; railway employee, station master, railway manager, personal assistant, railway parcels manager, railway company director

Nelson, John Graeme

1947