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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Thales

From Graces Guide

Thales Group is a French multinational company that designs and builds electrical systems and provides services for the aerospace, defence, transportation and security markets. The headquarters are in Neuilly-sur-Seine (in the suburbs of Paris), and its stock is listed on the Euronext Paris.

2000 Thomson-CSF acquired Racal Electronics, a UK defence electronics group, for £1.3 billion.

2000 The company changed its name to Thales in December 2000

2001 Shorts Missile Systems was renamed as Thales Air Defence Limited.

2007 Won order for a replacement signalling system for the Piccadilly underground line in London[1]

2010 8,500 UK employees[2]


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Sources of Information

  1. The Times January 30, 2007
  2. The Times, November 26, 2010