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[[Image:Im20110618Bak-Phillips4.jpg|thumb| Oscilloscope. Exhibit at the [[Bakelite Museum]]. ]]
[[Image:Im20110618Bak-Phillips4.jpg|thumb| Oscilloscope. Exhibit at the [[Bakelite Museum]]. ]]
[[image:Im20110923Aber-Philipsc1965.jpg|thumb| c1965. Portable record player. Exhibit at the [[Ceredigion Museum‎]]. ]]
[[image:Im20110923Aber-Philipsc1965.jpg|thumb| c1965. Portable record player. Exhibit at the [[Ceredigion Museum‎]]. ]]

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Oscilloscope. Exhibit at the Bakelite Museum.
c1965. Portable record player. Exhibit at the Ceredigion Museum‎.
1956. Philips Refrigerator with in-built radio. Exhibit at the Musee EDF Electropolis, Mulhouse.
1956. Philips Refrigerator with in-built radio (detail). Exhibit at the Musee EDF Electropolis, Mulhouse.

Philips Electrical Industries Ltd, a subsidiary of N.V. Philips of the Netherlands.

General

1947 Reorganisation by N.V. Philips of its subsidiaries; Philips Lamps and Mullard became wholly-owned subsidiaries of a new company Philips Electrical Industries Ltd[1]

1952 Controlling interest in British Tungsram acquired by Philips Electrical Ltd[2].

1953 Manufacturer of TV sets [3]

1954 As Philips Electrical Ltd. Advert on this page for Electric Philishave Dry Shaver. [4]

1960 As part of the parent company's expansion into various areas of domestic appliances, acquired Ada of Halifax, makers of washing machines and spin driers[5]; arrangement to collaborate with Morphy-Richards would go ahead even though that company was acquired by EMI.

1960 Arthur Guinness, Son and Philips Electrical jointly acquired Crookes Laboratories[6]

1961 As Philips Electrical Ltd. Manufacturers of electrical apparatus, radio, television, record players, tape recorders, lamps and lighting fittings, domestic appliances and amplifying and cinema equipment. [7]

1961 Established Amalgamated Electric Services at Croydon to take over the service departments of[8]:

1962 Joint venture with EMI to make magnetic tape for both companies in a factory to be built at Hayes[9]. Joint venture of Research and Control Instruments with Redifon of the Rediffusion group, pooling the 2 companies' induction and dielectric heating businesses; to be called Intertherm; based in Brixton[10]

1963 Motor Show exhibitor. Car radios.[11]

By 1965 the British arm of Philips was Philips Electronic and Associated Industries; 30,000 employees[12].

1967 After several years losses, Rediffusion sold its interest in Intertherm to Philips[13]

1967 After a Stock market battle, Philips acquired Pye[14]; shareholders had an option to buy back into the company before 1970.

By 1968 Intertherm was part of the Elphiac Group, which combined the electroheating interests of Philips and ACEC[15]

1968 W. G. Pye and Unicam Instruments were merged to become Pye Unicam; Philips's scientific division from Mullard was also put into the new company[16]

1969 Principal subsidiaries were[17]:

1969 Acquired English Electric Arc Welding[18]

1976 Philips acquired the consumer businesses (ie radio and television) from Pye which would concentrate on professional electronics operations[19]

Radio

See Philips Electrical: Radio

Television

See Philips Electrical: Television

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ The Times, Dec 24, 1947
  2. ↑ Competition Commission [1]
  3. ↑ Choosing your Television Set. Published by Freelance in 1953.
  4. ↑ [2] History World
  5. ↑ The Times, Sep 06, 1960
  6. ↑ The Times, Oct 29, 1960
  7. ↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
  8. ↑ The Times, Jul 31, 1961
  9. ↑ The Times, Apr 18, 1962
  10. ↑ The Times, Jun 28, 1962
  11. ↑ 1963 Motor Show
  12. ↑ The Times, Dec 16, 1965
  13. ↑ The Times, Jul 05, 1967
  14. ↑ The Times, Feb 18, 1967
  15. ↑ The Times, Feb 12, 1968
  16. ↑ The Times, Jul 01, 1968
  17. ↑ The Times, Jun 02, 1969
  18. ↑ The Times, Aug 22, 1969
  19. ↑ The Times, Dec 14, 1976
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