Grace's Guide To British Industrial History
Registered UK Charity (No. 1154342)Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains167,818 pages of information and247,161 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains147,919 pages of information and233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Telegraph Condenser Co (TCC), manufacturers of condensers and other electrical and electronic components, of Wales Farm Road, North Acton, London, W3. Telephone: Chiswick 4884. Cables: "Telefarad, Act, London". (1929)
of Bathgate, Edinburgh (factory)
1906Sidney George Brown formed theTelegraph Condenser Co to manufacture and market his inventions.
1929 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Condensers for wireless transmission and reception, telegraph, telephone, and cable work. Condensers for all smoothing purposes, including battery eliminators, mains units, and high frequency condensers of mica and paper dielectric. (Stand No. MM.46).[1]
1933 TheTelegraph Condenser Co expanded; the business was turned into a public company;Alice Brown made sure that she and her husband retained full financial and managerial control.
1943S. G. Brown retired and sold his interest in theTelegraph Condenser Co to a syndicate.
1947 Opened a new factory at Bathgate, Edinburgh
1949 Acquired the condenser manufacturing interests ofUnited Insulator Co[2]
1960 Agreement withSprague Electric Co of USA to acquire UK rights to all Sprague patents[3]
By 1960 was a subsidiary ofBICC; the rapid increase in demand for electronic components for radios had benefitted the company whilst there had been less increase in demand for BICC's heavier types of capacitors[4]
1961 Manufacturers of electrical condensers, ceramic bodies for certain types of capacitors, fuses and insulating materials. 2,500 employees.[5]
1963Telegraph Condenser Co merged its printed circuit board interests withTechnograph Electronic Products which company was renamedTechnograph and Telegraph[6]
1963 Protected the company's interests in aluminium cans by purchasingSatellite Engineering, which specialized in impact extruded aluminium containers for all purposes.[7][8]
1965 Acquired by thePlessey Co.[9]