Racal-Decca
Racal-Decca, radar manufacturers, of New Malden, Surrey, UK.
1980 Racal won a battle with GEC to acquire Decca Ltd[1]. Decca Radar became Racal-Decca.
Early Racal-Decca radars had dropped the Decca name, which mariners had trusted for years, but outcry from the customers prompted its return.
At this time the business was run from New Malden in Surrey, UK.
In the mid-1980s, Decca introduced the BridgeMaster series of radars, which used a rasterized colour display. The BridgeMaster II series followed, with a Motorola 68000 CPU and powerful software options such as vector traces showing the trajectories of other ships as part of the ARPA package.
1982 The Racal Avionics division of Racal-Decca Navigator was incorporated. The division had trebled foreign sales of its airborne navigation radar and electronics system over a three-year period and won a Queen's Award for Export Achievement.[2]
2000 Thomson-CSF acquired Racal Electronics and its subsidiaries. Racal Avionics became Thomson Racal Avionics then Thales Avionics, of Reading.