GEC-Plessey Telecommunications

GEC traces its origins to G.Binswanger and Company, an electrical goods wholesaler established in London during the 1880s by a German immigrant Gustav Binswanger (later Gustav Byng). Regarded as the year GEC was founded, 1886 saw Byng joined by a fellow immigrant, Hugo Hirst (later Lord Hirst), and the company changed its name to The General Electric Apparatus Company (G.Binswanger). This small business found early success with its unorthodox method of supplying electrical components over the counter. Hugo Hirst was an e ...

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Founded in 1917 in Marylebone, central London but moving to Cottenham Road in Ilford early in 1919 (and then to Vicarage Lane where it remained) The Plessey Company became one of the largest manufacturers in this field as the radio and television industries grew. Plessey were partners in the development of the Atlas Computer in 1962 and in the development of Digital telephone systems - System X - during the late 1970s.

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Plessey is also a name for a barcode symbology developed by them, which is still used in some libraries and for shelf tags in retail stores, in part as a solution to their internal requirement for stock control. Its chief advantages are the relative ease of printing using the dot-matrix printers popular at the time of the code's introduction, and its somewhat higher density than the more common 2 of 5 and 3 of 9 codes. Plessey barcodes use two bar widths. Whitespace between bars is not significant. The start element is a wide b ...

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