Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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 contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

British Electronic Controls

From Graces Guide

1969 Public company; made a small profit[1]; owned land in Ponders End and Enfield.

1972 Acquired Ling Dynamic Systems[2]; this subsidiary of the Ling Electronics made vibration test equipment; it had been built up by Fred Semark, John Rutherford and Andrew Emerson; the proposed deal was in effect a reversal into the quoted British Electronic Controls[3]

1977 The company was subject to competing offers to buy from a management team, from Derritron and from SRE Electronics, a private company also involved in vibration test equipment, owned by 3 executive directors of BEC[4] which was eventually successful.


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Nov 06, 1969
  2. The Times, Jul 12, 1972
  3. The Times, Oct 20, 1977
  4. The Times, Oct 04, 1977