On 16 Nov 2008 14:24:21 GMT Andrew Gabriel wrote :
GEC's lighting division was GEC Osram, but was sold back to the
Germans (from which it had been obtained after WWII)

WW1 - see http://www.twickenhamurc.org.uk/whoswho.htm , bottom of
page. I bought a copy of The GEC Research Laboratories 1919-84 a
while back (it's on a ship somewhere between the UK and
Australia) and a very interesting read it is too.

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Tony Bryer, 'Software to build on' from Greentram
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