BRIEF HISTORY PROFILES OF TELEPHONE COMPANIES

Most of these are short, informal documents, intended as a brief introduction rather than detailed factual histories.

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 AEI history (mentioning Siemens Brothers)

  Antwerp's twin phone makers, ATEA and BTMC

  Australia

 British L.M. Ericsson

 British Telecom - privatisation

 Budavox

 Cable and Wireless

  Caswell (one-time Plessey site, now the research base of Marconi Materials Technology)

  Suppliers' names frequently confused

 GEC History

  Main telephone manufacturers in GERMANY, 1930 and 1970

  Hull Corporation (now Kingston Communications), plus a brief reference to other municipal telephone systems in Britain

 Republic of Ireland

 Isle of Man

 ITT  - Manufacturing in the USA

 MARCONI company history

 NEC (Nippon Electric Corporation) company history

  Plessey - Autumn 1999 and the PLESSEY name re-emerges in the UK

  Siemens in Germany and the UK

  Sprint

  STROWGER WORKS - Ostensibly the story of the Edge Lane plant in Liverpool but more like a microcosm of the UK telephone industry. Early automatic systems, introduction of the Director in London, overseas installations and much more

  Thomson Group

  Western Electric

  WHEN IS A BELL NOT A BELL? Technology firms with 'Bell' in their title

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