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 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Metals Research

From Graces Guide
1963.

of Royston

of Melbourn

1967 Awarded Queens Award for Industry[1]

1969 Produced Quantimet, image analysing computer, which was used by Vokes for analysing contaminants in lubricating oil to assess filter performance[2]

1971 Queens Award for technology for the crystal-pulling apparatus for gallium phosphide production and for the image analysing computer[3]

1973 Declined an opportunity to acquire Cambridge Instrument Co

1975 Scientific and Medical Instruments was merged with a private company Metals Research and renamed Cambridge Instrument Co[4]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Apr 21, 1967
  2. The Times, Nov 21, 1969
  3. The Times, Apr 21, 1971
  4. The Times, Dec 09, 1976