MEL Equipment was a British manufacturer ofradar,avionics and military radio equipment based inWest Sussex.
The company was formed as Radio Transmission Equipment in March 1935 in south London. Later it was fully acquired byPhilips and renamed Mullard Equipment Ltd. It moved toCrawley in 1961.[citation needed]
In the 1970s, the company was employing around 2,250.[1][2][3]