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2. English Electric - Wikipedia

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   English Electric took over Vulcan Foundry and Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns, [35] both with substantial railway engineering pedigrees, in 1955. 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. Most of these classes of ...

3. General Electric Company - Wikipedia

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   The resulting company, (to become Osram in 1909), [clarification needed] was to lead the way in lamp design, and the burgeoning demand for electric lighting was to make GEC's fortune. [6] In 1900, GEC was incorporated as a public limited company, The General Electric Company (1900) Ltd (the '1900' was dropped three years later). [5]

4. Associated Electrical Industries - Wikipedia

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   The following year GEC merged with English Electric. GEC took over AEI Cables and Hackbridge Cables Co. in 1967, forming the company AEI Cables Ltd. in 1968. [2] GEC also went through substantial restructuring, including in 1989 forming GEC Alsthom and Cegelec Projects. GEC Alsthom was created from the GEC's Power and Transport businesses ...

5. AC power plugs and sockets: British and related types

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   [53] The original BS 1363:1947 specified fuse ratings of 3 A, 7 A and 13 A. [54] The current version of the fuse standard, BS 1362:1973, allows any fuse rating up to 13 A, with 3 A (coloured red) and 13 A (coloured brown) as the preferred (but not mandated) values when used in a plug. All other ratings are to be coloured black.

6. British Thomson-Houston - Wikipedia

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   In 1926 Gerard Swope, president of General Electric, proposed that BTH, Westinghouse, General Electric Company (GEC) and English Electric should amalgamate. Lord Hirst of GEC was not interested in Swope's scheme, but a new holding company was formed, Associated Electrical Industries (AEI), and in 1928 AEI bought BTH and Metropolitan-Vickers ...

7. Home Depot - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 December 2024. American multinational home improvement supplies retailing company The Home Depot, Inc. An aerial view of a Home Depot in Onalaska, Wisconsin Company type Public Traded as NYSE: HD DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component Industry Retail (home improvement) Founded February 6 ...