However when it became clear that GEC was selling its defence electronics business Marconi Electronic Systems, Evans put the DASA merger on hold in favour of purchasing Marconi.

Marconi Electronic Systems ( MES ), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of The General Electric Company ( GEC ).

GEC then renamed itself Marconi plc.

* CMC Electronics-formerly the Canadian Marconi Company, once part of EE / GEC & BAe

In December 1999, GEC was renamed to Marconi plc and became a telecommunications focused company ; when its defence arm, Marconi Electronic Systems was amalgamated with British Aerospace to form BAE Systems.

In 1919, GEC merged its radio valve manufacturing interests with those of the Marconi Company to form the Marconi-Osram Valve Company.

In 1968, GEC merged with English Electric, incorporating Elliott Brothers, the Marconi Company, Ruston & Hornsby, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and the Vulcan Foundry, Willans & Robinson and Dick, Kerr & Co.

Matra Marconi Space was established in 1990 as a joint venture between the space and telecommunication divisions of the Lagardère Group ( Matra Espace ) and the GEC group ( Marconi Space Systems ).

With the various restructurings of the GEC group and its rebranding as Marconi, a large part of the site was sold to Siemens along with the private telephone networks side of the business.

BAE was formed on 30 November 1999 by the £ 7. 7 billion merger of two British companies ; Marconi Electronic Systems ( MES )-the defence electronics and naval shipbuilding subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc ( GEC )-and British Aerospace ( BAe )-an aircraft, munitions and naval systems manufacturer.

After giving thorough consideration to closing the airport, GEC ( then comprising Marconi and instrument makers Elliot Automation ) decided to take over management of the airport.

Yarrow Shipbuilders was nationalised into British Shipbuilders by the Labour Government headed by Jim Callaghan and was subsequently privatised by Margaret Thatcher's government when the shipyard assets were purchased by GEC Marconi in 1985 ; in 1999 it became part of BAE Systems Marine.

The majority of the Plessey defence assets were amalgamated into BAE Systems ; when in 1999 BAe merged with the defence arm of GEC, Marconi Electronic Systems ( MES ).

In August 1998 GEC acquired Siemens ' 40 % stake in GPT ( by now only exist as a legal entity ); and merged GPT with the telecoms units of its other subsidiaries namely-Marconi SpA, GEC Hong Kong and ATC South Africa to form Marconi Communications.

The entity left out of ' GEC ' was renamed to Marconi plc, and Marconi Communications became its principal subsidiary.

The GEC acquired part of GPT ( August 1998 ) which became Marconi Communications in 1999, would be amalgamated into both Ericisson and Telent in 2005 when they acquire its parent company-Marconi Corporation plc, formed by 2003 restructuring of Marconi plc.

Dr Martin Read was recruited from GEC Marconi and appointed CEO in August 1993.

This division was privatised as Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd ( VSEL ) in 1986, later passing to the GEC group as part of Marconi Marine and survives to this day as part of BAE Systems ; BAE Systems Submarines.

The opening of the new purpose built company headquarters in Kingsway, London in 1921, and the pioneering industrial research laboratories at Wembley in 1923, were symbolic of the continuing expansion of both GEC and the electrical industry.

The single Update Centre machine was originally also a GEC 4082 machine, built with 384 kbytes of core store and the following arrangement of 70 Mbyte drives:

The closely related Class 318 units which were built for the Ayrshire Coast electrification in Scotland, are effectively a 3-car version of the same design, but with a lower speed capability of 90 mph and are fitted with Brush traction motors in place of GEC traction motors.

26386 / 49 ), affectionately called Jo-Anna, still does regular tourist trips in and around Pretoria and one NBL built GEC Class 4E electric is being preserved at Bellville Depot in Cape Town.

GEC subsequently won the bid and the fleet was built by sub-contractors BREL in Crewe between 1988 and 1991.

The original cars were built by the Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company and were later followed by examples from GEC, and also a Peckham car.

The British Rail Class 465 Networker electric multiple units were built by GEC Alsthom ( Metro-Cammell ) and BREL between 1991 and 1993, and by ABB Rail between 1993 and 1994.

The Class 466 EMUs were built between 1993 and 1994 by GEC Alsthom in Birmingham, for the Network SouthEast sector of British Rail.

The SNCF BB 26000 locomotives are a class of dual voltage, four axle B ' B ' electric locomotives capable of a top speed of 200 km / h built by GEC Alsthom between 1988 and 1998 for SNCF.

Some modern housing has been built on the former GEC site to the rear of Avenue Road up to the limestone quarries of Cemex.

Ten Class AL4 locomotives numbered E3036-E3045 were built in 1960 to a design by GEC by the North British Locomotive Company in Springburn, Glasgow.

Today Napier Turbochargers is a wholly self-owned company employing around 160 people, having previously been owned by Siemens Power Generation, specifically Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd being based on the same site in Lincoln when it bought the neighbouring Alstom Power Turbines in March 2003 ; Alstom ( former GEC-Alsthom ) had owned the company since GEC bought English Electric in the late 1960s.

The head office of FTSS was at Cheadle Heath, Stockport, with subsidiary sites in Church Crookham, Hampshire, Weymouth, Dorset, Bridlington, Yorkshire and Rochester ( this site was an ex GEC site ).

The site of the Whittle factory became the English Electric Company ( Later GEC ) a significant part of several Nuclear power stations were made there in the 1960s and 70's.

The contract for the initial system was awarded to GEC Mowlem in 1984 and the system was constructed from 1985 to 1987 at a cost of £ 77 million.

After completion of the GEC building, a free music festival was held at Old Park Farm in Waterlooville called Torpedo Town.

The General Electric Company ( GEC ), later to sell its defence interests to BAe, came close to acquiring BAe at this time.

In 1961, GEC merged with Sir Michael Sobell's Radio & Allied Industries Ltd, and with it emerged the new power behind GEC, Sobell's son-in-law Arnold Weinstock ( later Lord Weinstock ), who became Managing Director in 1963, moving the headquarters of the electrical giant from Kingsway ( in Holborn, London ), to a modern building at 1 Stanhope Gate ( near Hyde Park Corner, in Mayfair, London ).

In April 1981 GEC acquired Cincinnati Electronics ( CE ), located in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the time owned by George J Mealey, President and Chairman of the Board.

In 1984 GEC became one of the first 100 companies to enter the FTSE 100 Index, at which time it was ranked third behind British Petroleum and Shell Transport and Trading with a market capitalisation of £ 4. 915 billion.

His father Jack worked shifts as a toolmaker at GEC.

The CV claimed that he had attended the University of Perugia when he had in fact attended the Università per Stranieri, which did not grant any degrees at that time, and a claim that he had attended the prestigious-sounding Dunchurch College of Management turned out to refer to some weekend courses at GEC Marconi's staff college.

It is an engineering centre and has a long history of producing gas and steam turbines at the GEC and at the AEI.

Aaj Tak has evolved into nation ’ s most trusted news channel ( according to BTR AajTak was at 190th position in 2010, this year it has climbed up to 168th spot out of 17000 thousand most trusted brands and that ’ s above all TV brands including GEC ’ s ).

In December 1985 GEC launched a takeover bid for the Plessey Company, valuing the group at £ 1. 2 billion.

GEC Siemens ' initial offer was made on 23 December 1988 valuing Plessey at £ 1. 7 billion.

* Baron Hirst ( 1863 – 1943 ; lived at Foxhill Whiteknights Estate, founder with Gustav Byng a company selling electrical appliances which was transformed into GEC, Hirst was MD of GEC in 1900 and Chairman in 1910 )

Skyflash came out of a British plan to develop an inverse monopulse seeker for the Sparrow AIM-7E-2 by GEC and the RAE at the end of the 1960s.

System X was developed by the UK Post Office ( later to become British Telecom ), GEC, Plessey, and Standard Telephones and Cables ( STC ) and first shown in public in 1979 at the Telecom 79 exhibition in Geneva Switzerland.

" He was as interested in sport as he was in politics and was said to have kept ‘ the best hunting establishment in Ireland ’ at Bishopscourt, his seat in County Kildare, where it was also reported that he lived ‘ in the most hospitable and princely style ’ ( GEC, Peerage ).

Prior to his appointment at Cardiff University, Dr Grant was Director of Technology at GEC plc ( 1991 – 2001 ) and was awarded the Mensforth International Gold Medal by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, now IET, in 1996.