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unusual facts about GEC-Plessey Telecommunications



AirRail Link

Contracts were awarded in 1981 to a consortium involving GEC, Balfour Beatty, Brush Electrical Machines and Metropolitan Cammell under the name "People Mover Group", along with John Laing plc.

Alaris

After searching throughout the ideas of multiple companies, RENFE chose a conglomeration of GEC, Alstom, and FIAT Ferroviaria as the winners of a bid to develop new trains for the network titled ETR 490, similar to the ETR 470 trains used on the Italian Cisalpino network.

AMSAR

This organisation, originally (GEC-Thomson-DASA Airborne Radar) is now made up of their successor companies, BAE Systems (now SELEX), Thales, and EADS, respectively.

Berkeley Networks

Berkeley Networks was acquired by Pittsburgh based FORE Systems for US $250 Million, and then which later was acquired by London based GEC (now Marconi Corporation plc) for £2.8 Billion.

British Approvals Board for Telecommunications

At that point in history, British Telecom was a state monopoly, and even by 1982 BT only allowed (via approval) the four British manufacturers (STC, GEC, Plessey, and Thorn-Ericsson) to supply its twenty five types of phone through them, and not independently.

British Rail Class D3/5

They were similar to Class D3/4 (TOPS class 10, numbers 13137–13151 / D3137–D3151), but had electrical equipment from British Thomson-Houston rather than GEC.

Canary Wharf DLR station

On 17 July 1987 (over a month before the DLR opened to the public) a contract was awarded to GEC-Mowlem Railway Group to rebuild the station into the considerably more elaborate and spacious design that exists today.

Chilbolton Observatory

GEC were contracted to repair the bearing and devised a system to replace the failed part while leaving the 400 tonne dish ostensibly in-place.

Coral 66

A variant of Coral 66 was developed during the late 1970s/early 1980s by the British GPO, in conjunction with GEC, STC and Plessey, for use on the System X digital telephone exchange control computers, known as PO-CORAL.

Crewe Toll

A major aerospace facility is situated in the area, the Selex ES facility (formerly the avionics division of Ferranti, then GEC-Marconi, then BAE Systems, then SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems, then SELEX Galileo) has been in this location since the 1940s.

Digital Private Network Signalling System

DPNSS was an active (and successful) collaboration between PBX manufacturers and BT which started relatively slowly (BT & Plessey) but quickly snowballed with MITEL, GEC, Ericsson, Philips and eventually Nortel all joining to create a powerful and feature rich protocol.

Elmbank Gardens

The original tenant of the building was the YARD (Yarrow-Admiralty Research Department) - part of the local engineering company Yarrow Shipbuilders - who remained such until 1992 when Yarrows' takeover by GEC-Marconi (ultimately British Aerospace), which resulted in consolidation of its activities in the city.

Emir Vildić

From November 2009 onwards Emir Vildić holds the position of executive director of Association Citizens Educational Center –Tuzla, and independent news "GEC Portal" Tuzla Canton, B&H .

Étienne Léandri

Léandri was involved in various political scandals, such as the Sofremi affair, for which Pasqua has been indicted, and the affair concerning the moving of the headquarters of the GEC-Alsthom Transport firms (for which Pasqua has also been indicted).

Euroradar CAPTOR

An agreement was reached after the British Defence Secretary Tom King assured his West German counterpart Gerhard Stoltenberg that the British government would underwrite the project and allow GEC to acquire Ferranti Defence Systems from its troubled parent.

FORE Systems

It was acquired by London based GEC (now Marconi Corporation plc) to complement its Marconi Communications business and to increase its presence in North America, the world’s largest telecoms market.

GEC Computers

GEC Computers extensive presence in UK academic and research organisations, and the UK field service organisation, led Sun Microsystems to choose GEC Computers to be its presence in the UK for the UK launch of its Sun-2 product range in the early 1980s, which GEC Computers sold under the name of GEC Series 42.

GEC Medical

The main business of the merged GEC Medical was the manufacture of X-Ray equipment, including X-Ray tubes which were made under licence from a US company called Machlett Laboratories.

GEC Plessey Telecommunications

During the mid-1990s, the name GPT gradually disappeared in the UK; and by October 1997 the joint venture, through a series of Siemens mergers and acquisitions in UK, evolved into 'Siemens GEC Communication Systems' (SGCS), which later in 1998 merged to Siemens Business Communication Systems (SBCS) to form the largest division of Siemens AG - Siemens Communications.

By October 1997, the company evolved into Siemens GEC Communication Systems (SCGS); later in 1998 it amalgamated into the largest division of Siemens - Siemens Communications, and eventually Siemens Enterprise Communications in 2008.

General Precision Equipment

In 1987 Kearfott was split, the Kearfott Guidance & Navigation Corporation was sold to the Astronautics Corporation of America in 1988 and the Electronic Systems Division was purchased by GEC-Marconi in 1990 and renamed GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems.

Green Electronics Council

In partnership with the Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Engineering, in Sept. of 2008 GEC held a Forum for Sustainable Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at Yale.

Grêmio Esportivo Catanduvense

Grêmio Esportivo Catanduvense, usually known simply as Catanduvense, or as GEC, was a Brazilian football club from Catanduva, São Paulo state.

Gwalior Engineering College

Gwalior Engineering College popularly known as GEC has been established by Mahatma Dhule Education Society.started in year 2003.

Hazeltine Corporation

In 1996, Hazeltine was acquired from ESCO by GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems Corp., a US subsidiary of The General Electric Company, and renamed GEC-Marconi Hazeltine.

With the 1999 merger of GEC-Marconi and British Aerospace to form BAE Systems, GEC-Marconi Hazeltine was renamed BAE Systems Advanced Systems.

Hotpoint

The Hotpoint Electric Heating Company (generally known simply as Hotpoint) is a British brand of domestic appliances, formerly part of GEC.

Institute for International Research in Glass

Robert Kesseler (2013), Richard Slee (2013), Bruce McLean(2013), Wendy Ramshaw, Gijs Baker (2013), Graham Dolphin (2013), Markku Salo, Claire Barclay, Kristina Niedderer, Stefan Gec (2004), Shelley James (2005-6), Janine Goldsworthy

Jaffarpur Kalan

CBP Government Engineering College (Hindi: राजकीय अभियांत्रिकी महाविद्यालय), or GEC Jaffarpur was established by the Department of Training and Technical Education, Government of Delhi.

John Allen Clark

In 1988 GEC announced a new partnership with the German electronics group Siemens to once again bid for Plessey.

Korail Class 8000

The locomotive was designed by the 50 C/S group, which consisted of European manufacturers Alsthom, Siemens, GEC, MTE, Brown-Boveri, ACEC, and AEG, and was led by Alsthom.

L. R. G. Treloar

Leslie Ronald George Treloar graduated in Physics from University College, Reading, in 1927 and subsequently joined GEC.

MACOSA

In 1989 the company became Mediterranea de Industrias del Ferrocarril, S.A. (or Meinfesa) and became part of the GEC-Alstom multinational in 1991, after this the company moved locomotive production to a new plant at Albuixech (Valencia).

Mill Hill County High School

Air Vice-Marshal Paul Clark CB, former GEC-Marconi then BAE Systems North America executive, and Commandant of the RAF Signals Engineering Establishment (RAFSEE) at RAF Henlow (now home of the RAF Signals Museum) from 1990-1

Nakhoda Ragam-class corvette

The contract was awarded to GEC-Marconi in 1995 and the ships, a variant of the F2000 design, were launched in January 2001, June 2001 and June 2002 at the then BAE Systems Marine yard at Scotstoun, Glasgow.

Real-time Programming Language

A number of large scale manufacturing applications were developed in RPL, including that which was in use at Plessey and GEC-Plessey Telecommunications limited in Liverpool and also the Trifid suite of manufacturing software.

Robert James Clayton

When the BBC resumed television service from Alexandra Palace after the war GEC won the important contract to implement the first link to another transmitter at Birmingham.

Ronald L. Turner

Prior to joining Ceridian in 1993, Turner served as President and CEO of GEC-Marconi Electronic Systems, a defense electronics company, from 1987 to 1993.

Rupert Soames

After leaving GEC in 1997, Soames joined the software company Misys as chief executive of its Midas-Kapiti division.

Spearfish

Spearfish torpedo, or simply Spearfish, is a modern torpedo built by GEC-Marconi

System Y

British Telecom decided to use the AXE10 digital switch in the mid-1980s to end its total reliance on GEC's System X.

The 1 in 12 Club

The late 1970s and early 1980s saw massive job losses across Britain and Bradford was no exception with GEC and International Harvester shutting plants in the City.

THSR 700T

THSRC's bid was based on the high-speed technology platform of Eurotrain, a joint venture of GEC-Alsthom, the main maker of the French TGV, and Siemens, the main maker of the German ICE.


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