English Electric Company Limited was a British industrial manufacturer formed after the armistice of World War I by amalgamating five businesses which, during the war, had been making munitions, armaments and aeroplanes.
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15 Facts About English Electric
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English Electric's business was in heavy electrical and mechanical plant.
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From 1912 to 1924, United Electric and English Electric supplied second- and third-series tramcars for Hong Kong Tramways.
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In 1923, English Electric supplied the EO electric locomotives for the New Zealand Railways for use between Arthurs Pass and Otira, in the Southern Alps.
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In 1927, English Electric delivered 20 electric motor cars for Warsaw's Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa.
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Between the late 1930s and the 1950s, English Electric supplied electric multiple unit trains for the electrified network in and around Wellington, New Zealand.
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English Electric took over Vulcan Foundry and Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns, both with substantial railway engineering pedigrees, in 1955.
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English Electric produced nearly 1000 diesel and electric locomotives, of nine different classes, for British Rail as part of the Modernisation Plan in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Aircraft manufacture under the English Electric name began in Bradford in 1922 with the Wren but lasted only until 1926 after the last Kingston flying boat was built.
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Post-war, English Electric invested heavily in this sector, moving design and experimental facilities to the former RAF Warton near Preston in 1947.
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In 1946, English Electric took over the Marconi Company, a foray into the domestic consumer electronic market.
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English Electric tried to take over one of the other major British electrical companies, the General Electric Company, in 1960 and, in 1963, English Electric and J Lyons and Co.
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English Electric took over Lyons' half-stake in 1964 and merged it with Marconi's computer interests to form English Electric Leo Marconi .
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