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.

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Cathodeon Electronic

From Graces Guide

of Southend-On-Sea, Essex

1935 Cathodeon was set up as a subsidiary of Pye Ltd

1951 Pye had decided to develop their own cathode ray tubes for television sets; small scale production was done by Cathodeon Ltd a company in the Pye group[1].

1952 limited production of cathode ray tubes

1952 Some production of special valves

1954 New subsidiary of Pye formed, Cathodeon Electronic, which took over production of cathode ray tubes; this company made about 8% of Pye's needs for television tubes[2].

1961 Vacuum research engineers, manufacturing cathode ray tubes and electric incandescent lighting apparatus, thermionic valves, television and X-ray and other scientific apparatus. 300 employees.

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Sources of Information

  1. Competition Commission [1]
  2. Competition Commission[2]