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battery eliminator, the H.T. Eliminator, which he later demonstrated to
Verrells. Suitably impressed, Verrells joined Cole in a business venture, with Cole manufacturing the battery eliminators, and Verrells marketing them with both Cole, Verrells and Bradshaw selling sets by knocking on doors in the town that had a radio aerial outside their property. Cole married Muriel in 1925 and they would go onto have two boys.
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ownership, Ekco
Plastics introduced a range of containers under the 'Eckoware' brand name. In 1968, David Harman Powell's Nova tableware won the Duke of Edinburgh award for elegant design with the judges commenting on its "practical qualities of convenience and durability with shapes and colours of
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to make plastic radio cases in 1947, and expanded into making plastic parts for other manufacturers. By the mid to late 1950s, E. K. Cole had grown to be one of the largest producers of industrial plastics in Europe, purchasing companies such as
Kilgore in 1955. Ekco Plastics Limited was formed in
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in 1930, and moved to a spacious new factory called the Ekco Works at Priory
Crescent, Southend-on-Sea, the first large factory in Britain intended specifically for manufacturing radio receivers. The company also began to concentrate on the manufacture of mains powered radios rather than battery
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In the late 1930s, Ekco began producing its own radio valves at its
Southend-on-Sea works. Following the company's decision to abandon the venture, the plant was converted to a lamp factory. In 1943, Ekco acquired Ensign Lamps based in Preston. In 1950, Ekco sold 51% of its lighting subsidiary,
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In the early 1950s, a new subsidiary Ekco
Electronics Ltd, was created to manage the development of radar and instrumentation manufactured at both Malmesbury (radar) and Southend (instrumentation). During the 1950s, the company produced a number of military radar systems including the ARI 5820
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in 1959, with many hotels and public organisations ordering there products. David Harman Powell, who had attended the
Southend School of Art and had previously worked for EKCO, was appointed as chief industrial designer in 1960 after a spell with British Industrial Plastics. The company were
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Buckinghamshire. Following the outbreak of war, the Southend-on-Sea factory was evacuated apart from the bakelite moulding shop whose large moulding presses could not be moved easily. Less than a year later, the empty factory was re-equipped to make wiring looms for aircraft such as the
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and lighting. The company's knowledge of radio saw it expand into developing radar before and during World War II. The company expanded into making its own plastic bodies for radio sets, with EKCO Plastics later becoming a manufacturer of domestic wares. The company merged in 1960 with
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Thermotube tubular heaters at Malmesbury in 1940. The company would develop further products including electric blankets, Panelec solid embedded floor warming system, Greenhouse heating, Teamakers and Hostess trolleys. In 1962, Ekco merged with Pye subsidiary
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as a jointly owned company to combine their activities in measuring instruments, diathermy, and electro-medical apparatus with premises at Southend and Chelmsford. In 1941, Eric Kirkham Cole announced that they had sold their share in the business to Marconi.
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British Electronic Industries became Pye of Cambridge in 1963, was put up for sale in 1966, and in the same year Pye closed the Southend-on-Sea factory (but maintained its car radio repair workshop until 1977) as part of its restructuring plan.
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The company suffered a major financial setback in 1932, when a fire swept through its research and development laboratories. The blaze destroyed much of the design work for the company’s new range of receivers.
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1956 as a wholly owned subsidiary. In 1959, the largest plastic injection moulding machine in Great Britain was installed in the factory. The new moulding machine allowed Ekco to produce single mouldings for
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Ekco Plastics was based at Priory Crescent, Southend. They developed a range of plastic consumer products, beginning with the 'Superbath' baby bath, designed by Martyn Rowland who would later design the
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eliminators which were becoming obsolete, bringing in John Wyborn from Marconiphone as their chief engineer and Michael Lipman as production engineer. The company was also revolutionary in using
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company, demolished to make way for a housing development. The Ekco name lives on within the development, and the site still hosts the Ekco Social and Sports Club, while the clubs football team
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and T1154 aircraft radios at its Aylesbury shadow factory. Ekco carried out extensive development work on both units before putting them into production, significantly improving on the original
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due to a bathing accident, his wife Muriel having predeceased him in 1965. In 1961, Ekco formed two companies, Ekco TV and Radio and Ekco Heating and Electrical to market their products.
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projection television system. Although the system showed great promise, its development was halted by the Second World War, and not resumed postwar. In 1936, Ekco and Marconi set up
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precision and elegance". In 1970, Harman Powell's design for disposable cutlery won the Design Council of Industrial Design Award for Consumer Orientated Products.
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brand in 1957 (though not Ferranti's heavy industries, defence electronics or meter businesses). The company also had a component subsidiary, Egen Electrics, on
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as chairman and E. K. Cole as vice-chairman. The following year Cole resigned from the board and retired. He died on 18 November 1966 in the
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to design its bakelite radio cabinets. By 1934, the company had a turnover of more than ÂŁ1 million.
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holds a collection of EKCO Electronics, Ekco Heating and Appliances, and Ekco Plastics, while the
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still carry the name. A statue of Eric Cole was commissioned for the housing development in 2020.
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cabinets for its radios. Initially these cabinets were made for the company in Germany by
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in 1960 to form a new holding company, British Electronic Industries Ltd, with
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newsreel showing air raid precautions at ECKO Southend (1939). YouTube (1'03")
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producing over a million plastic mouldings a week by 1960. In 1964, under
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Pye Holdings sold Ecko Plastics to National Plastics, a subsidiary of
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design. The R1155 and T1154 were also produced by Marconi,
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2221:"Southend honours EKCO radio factory founder with statue"
2196:"Welcome to Ekco Social and Sports Club, Southend on Sea"
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for its radio cases instead of wood, which was the norm.
2127:"Pye Bid For World Leadership In Mobile Communications"
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VHF man-pack transceiver for use by the British Army.
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Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
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East Anglian Fil Archive @ University of East Anglia
1890:"P9-0227 Lin Pac to buy NP-Ekco injection business"
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2336:"The Age of Plastic: From Parkesine to pollution"
1896:. Vol. 2. The Information. 1986. p. 17.
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434:. The wartime headquarters of Ekco was based at
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1945:Building Materials; Components & Equipment
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1768:. No. 56137. 8 October 1964. p. 21.
1615:"The Largest Injection Moulding Machine Built"
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828:(Supplement). 3 June 1958. pp. 3521–3548.
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1878:. Vol. 13. IPC Press. 1986. p. 62.
1431:Kites, Birds & Stuff - Westland Aircraft
520:in 1954, the company's trademark on its tail
27:British electrical and plastics manufacturer
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1753:. Vol. 27–28. 1960. p. 21.
1619:Modern Refrigeration and Air Control
1103:. Vol. 9–15. 1946. p. 126.
995:Keith Geddes, Gordon Bussey (1991).
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1962:. Vol. 81. 1964. p. 20.
1932:. Vol. 62. 1962. p. 61.
1603:. Vol. 1. 1955. p. 271.
1555:. Vol. 43. 1971. p. 25.
1540:. Vol. 52. 1972. p. 50.
1341:. UK: Crowood Press. p. 36.
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1235:Atomics and Atomic Technology
1222:. Heywood. 1961. p. 128.
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462:air to surface vessel radar.
309:Southend Day Technical School
307:, Essex, and was educated at
2145:"R.I.P. RBS / Ecko Southend"
1930:Electrical Industries Export
672:Council of Industrial Design
30:For the clothing brand, see
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2200:Ekco Social and Sports Club
2171:"Ecko Park - Bellway Homes"
1292:"AI Mark 20 (Green Willow)"
1248:Miguel Vasconcelos (2013).
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723:Thorn Electrical Industries
562:Radar & Instrumentation
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1189:"Ekco Wireless Set No. 88"
1132:"Marconi-Ekco Instruments"
1057:"Marconi-Ekco Instruments"
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1411:"New Electronics Factory"
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729:Merger and restructuring
706:L G Hawkins & Co Ltd
391:Marconi-Ekco Instruments
91:Electronics and Plastics
48:Not to be confused with
2443:EKCO Factory Rutherglen
2050:Matthew Eagles (2021).
1265:Thetford, Owen (1978).
1120:. Methuen. p. 305.
1099:"Marconi Instruments".
1958:"Greenhouse Heating".
1876:European Plastics News
1488:Giles Chapman (2021).
1335:Darling, Kev. (2005).
1233:"Ekco Press Officer".
1193:Electronic Engineering
1152:Cowbridge Publishing.
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699:Heating and Appliances
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1114:W. J. Baker (1970).
845:"Thermotube History"
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245:Ekco Instrumentation
227:1978-1986 Courtaulds
170:David Harman Powell
2479:Radar manufacturers
1858:Investors Chronicle
1658:. 9 September 2022.
1656:Museum of Gardening
1601:Plastics Technology
1520:The Estates Gazette
538:Wireless Set No. 88
491:Wireless Set No. 46
483:Wireless Set No. 19
436:Aston Clinton House
207:Number of employees
156:Number of locations
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43:EK (disambiguation)
2445:at Secret Scotland
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2268:"Ga-ga for radios"
2227:. 4 October 2020.
2131:Electronics Weekly
1926:"Electric Heating"
1534:"M.E.L. Equipment"
1338:De Havilland Comet
1101:The Marconi Review
1032:"ECKO Model AD-65"
825:The London Gazette
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655:injection moulding
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2027:. pye-story.org.
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1960:Amateur Gardening
1788:"Plastic Cutlery"
1551:"MEL Equipment".
1516:"Lesney Products"
1368:"Southend-on-Sea"
1302:on 19 March 2008.
1177:. 4 October 2020.
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733:Ekco merged with
670:. The bath won a
624:Westland Sea King
598:Bristol Britannia
534:electric blankets
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