British Electronic Controls
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.