Marconi Avionics
Note: This is a sub-section of GEC
Marconi Avionics
1967 English Electric Co and Elliott Automation merge.
1968 The new English Electric group is acquired by GEC.
1969 GEC renamed its avionics business Marconi-Elliott Avionics Systems Limited, part of the company's defence arm, GEC-Marconi Electronics.
1978 Renamed Marconi Avionics Limited.
1980 Three British firms collaborated to develop night-vision equipment for the armed forces - the electro-optical surveillance division of Marconi Avionics at Basildon and Rank Taylor Hobson at Leicester would work on indirect view systems whilst EMI Electronics at Feltham would produce direct-view systems[1]
1984 Renamed GEC Avionics Limited.
1986 The government gave GEC Avionics 6 months to solve the problems with the development of Airborne Early Warning radar for the Nimrod aircraft[2]
1990 GEC Avionics cut 700 jobs at Rochester[3]
1990 Take-over of the defence radar parts of Ferranti creating GEC Ferranti
1998 Renamed Marconi Avionics, part of the renamed defence arm, Marconi Electronic Systems (MES).
2000 Marconi Avionics (Holdings) Ltd was renamed BAE Systems Avionics