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MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1954, {"
University Town Factory
IN the TV camera department, John Mulliner, whose home is in Southsës, adjusts the lenses on a camera, fitted to a remote control pedestal. In the background Donald Cilsford,' of Cambridge, handles the lever that controls the camera's
movements.
CANADIAN Mrs Anne Leigh, a graduate of the University of Toronto, works as a junior engineer for Pye, while her mathematician husband studies for a doctorate at Cambridge University."
TV receiver assembly-line. Pye's Chairman believes that when all sizes of TV receiver screens have been tried, the public will settle for the “critical screen,' something between 17 and 20 inches.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith Radio Hongkong
The man who works in the Pye factory where they make television sets watches TV at home. with
technical eye.
I was no accident that
took Pye, the great Industry, to Cambridge, the university town. William George Pye, the firm's founder, started by making scientific instruments for the university's Cavendish Laboratory. !
Industries that build Britain's Future By
HUGH CLELAND
that anaked
It is no accident that keeps an assembly-lino Pya Ltd.' headquarters in acrosa the floor. making TV Cambridge though their in- recivers. A good many of the tervals have become widespread, people who handled TV sets for, Bald ME Charles Orr all day went home to one of Stanley, chairman and manag- their own as night, but by no ing director of Pye Lid.: "We means all were viewers. Pye's belleve
that in a place like radio sots for the home market Cambridge
you can find the are made in Lowestoft now, craftsmanship that decides the those for export (2,000 are in quality of the goods you make. shipped overseas cach week)
"Hore there BIT) families Ulster. working for us whose ancestors The Pye group of companies have been craftsmen for 100 empley 7-8000 people, of whom years or more."
a handful work in the vacuum, tube division at Chesterton, on the outskirts of the town Thero they make TV camera tubes for the BBC and French broadcast friendly, atted with a little
services. They also maky tubes forthright Irishman from
notice saying "Normal Service WIL Dublin,
Bo of the а member Television Advisory Comell, Resumed As Soon As Possible who came into the business in for use in the BBC's subsidiary there is no the early 1920s as an advertising stations, where man advising' the firm about studio equipment. entering the radio field.
Individual counts
Mr Stanley
Now he heads a firm that has
20 subeldiaries in places so
diverse as Dominion capitais and East Anglian villages. whose
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Coffee-pot shape
A TV camera tube costs about activities range. from making £400 and looks rather ilke on cameras and receivers to old-fashioned coffee-pot made of the manufacture of long-playing gloss. They showed us another,
and records
he shape and size of a fat cigar, walkie-talkies. "We believe In training which cost a quarter of the people here," said Mr Stanley, price.
"then filtering them out to the
little tubes were for TV cameras. other factories. We believe in Pye's Industrial
the delegation of power, and we neat, excillag instruments, al- don't like a great big organisa- most small enough to fit into
We believe the system a tlun.
a bridcase, that сал be plugged slands. or falls by the indivi- into a chunk
ars
electric er socket ko
proj Many firms are
their uses. exploring From the windows of Mr already
Stores see them as a weapon Stanley's office, you could see
a banke al-
ment
police
a 200-foot tower, on the top of against shoplifters, a which perched, like roosting ready uses one to keep in visual
serials. T touch with its records dopa
dopart- birds, a dozen TV. is Mr Stanley's first love.
in the country. The "I got interested in television are interested in using before there was any," he said, keep wat
watch againat criminals. And the first TV engineer he These sels' demand 'no special employed woer one he brought lighting, and late on a grey over from Germany Peter afternoon we watched people Goldmark, who is now technical outside going about vice-president of the Columbia business with no idea they were Broadcasting Systein's television being observed.
America...
At another Cambridge factory, Telecommunications,
side,
factor started
our tour of the ye
On
making
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OUTSIDE - the staff, canteen, Dorothy, Landels and Myra. Black relax during the lanch hour under the shadow of the 200 ft. aerial mast. · Both work in the TV assembly department. Miss Black has a TV set at home, Miss Landels has not.
their
MRS M. B. “ Pea
sealing
within
We.
In a room labelled talked to Mr Kenneth Custerson, Television Studio, on the floor who has been 21 years with Pyc. below. Mir Stanley's office. Mr He was one of the five prople
started Scot' who 'this section John
Cope, a
1945. Now telephants for
it has nearly 700. superintends
working there. minds of purposes walkie cpinteros, was
Mr Cope watcher" TV: at home. But he can only rarely talkies for the City of London radio telephones for disengage himself from techni- cal criticism and pay attention to services, steelworks, Ships to what is being provided as the Queen's liner, the Gothie, entertainment on tire screen. was equipped with Pye radio
Police,
telephones).
the Pyo directors have
Underwater camera radio-telephones in their cars,
announced
מם
the radio-
to keep in touch with things as they travel between Cambridge
An award of £20,000 was And London.
not long ago for We finished our lour at the work done in the war by Pye factory where the whole great technicians
That fuse organisation really began the operated shell-fuse. the needed radio vaives small and scientific Instruments side of the
business. which among its 300-. Shows of Sigmund Rombarg; 12.30 rugged enough to withstand a p... Programme Summary: 1237, shock equal to 20,000 times the piles the university and schools Double Attraction; AL Jelson force of gravity.
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(Vocal) Guy Lombardo
from
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old catalogued items, still sup
with some of the, same, instru-
within six weeks to and ments as William George Pyc Royal Canadians; 1, Time Signal, had" produced auch 颍
Orchestra
1
the Royal Air successfully fred it," wrote the made at the turn of the century. Force; 1.15, News, Weather Report Ack-Ack chier, General Bir
Special Announcemania; 10 Frederick Pile, after the war. Music for you; 2, Jazz Concert- Benny Goodman and his Orchestras;
and
One of the team
▸
First. Mr. Pye.
Mr Sidm Mitchell, who has
who produced Donald Weigh- (2.30, Thirty Minute Theatre, the valve was
We met a man who rememo- "Autumn. Ifoliday" by Frederick ton, a.Cambridge man, who told
Mr Pyo (two. Aicken Based on a story by Anton me that the tiny radio valves bered the first Chekhov (BBCTS); 3. The und in modern deaf aide owe others followed him, but there existence to the valves in none in the business now). Gondollers" Bung by the Principals their and Chorus of the D'Oy's Carte made for the sheils that brought "He was a very just man," said Opera Company with Orch, cond. by the fying bombs down, an
In another laboratory another worked just over 50 years for Isidore Godfrey; 4.35, Loslle Bridge- (water and the Westminster Light Donald Me Donald Robert the firm.
* Orch.; B, Ted Hasts and his Music: Coleman-showed as sa under started here as a boy," he 3.30, A Bymphonic Portrait of Cole water TV camera he had
dong all the sweeping up Forter: 8, Time Signal and Pro- designed. This "one was mado and that sort of thing gramme Buntnery; 6.0 Children's to be hand-operated by a diver: learned his craft, and the Jobs Half Hour! presented by Bally: Ann ((studio) songs by Marlo there are sunk and worked by he does now, wich as makin remote control. They can be electro-magnets and the threads Lanas (lanpey) #43% Box 2002 Hers
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said,
days lather
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Werther Report Ukzinema The cost of a hand-operate quired his skill, though in the and World News (Londari Reissli submarina TV Eczane
s.10, News, Talk (Loodon: Halay) or cut
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bethane':
The complex instruments can
works driven, and they
Reminiscing Edwin Stanley, works tendent, 25 yeary, wil
e and reinstated
Cambridge, hermetically
· TV camera'tube.
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glass
IN the works of division of Pye, redhead from Seunithorpe Joke description of the “ products Anything wit nothing
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JOHN CLARKES
CASEBOOK
The Determined Diner
there is one thing publishers are noted for apart from publishing-it Burely is for their excellent taste in the pleasant art of dining out. Age TANTUMMO
They become so accustomed to providing the best of food and drink for their best welling ́authors, and acquire such skill in picking the places where such may be bad, that the wonder is that restaurant owners can resist the tempiation of providing them with free meals out of gratitude for the compliment presence imples.
their
• It can only be assumed, there fore, that Charles, the other evening, was not immediately recognised for what he was-a publisher.
IN . OUT
POR Charles had hardly taken
his seat- in a small, ubprès tentious" (restaurant, /when/-kom found himself lifted up bodily by the proprietor, and dumpect on the narrow pavement, Tout- side,
“That,” said the proprietor, by wdy of firewall,, "will stop "you" messing- around “with thy
trees."
Charles, when he had gather ed himself is together;; obéiz! that the apron, of paver fronting the restaurant was dood, decorated with grubs, in, tuber. He noted, moreovim, that something was lacking in 154 symmetry of the trees, sizar thent. Ons shrub appeared to be missing, so did ita tub.
RETURN VISIT ¿
CHARLES picked himself un
and decided to return to the restaurant, commiserata with the owner on bis apparent lo#S. - OR=" plain that he had no band in ty and get on with the driest, he had planned,
He made “bo réturn, but tha proprietor barrod his way, and Fin a loud volee "annouicod, he wanted none of Charles's custően: Charles began to argue, à cró began to collect, Bome friends
Charles appeared, VA inspector also appeared, cleared the narrow street of the 60 or 80 spectators,
Charles to go away,
Charles moved · off friends,
DID 1.
1SWEAR!
BUT aimout at once ho D gretted him.... decision, iz took steps to alter if he took steps back to the restaurant, as the double. The inspector arrested him, and next morning he stood
the dock at Marlborough Street, and pleaded not guilty to a charge of using insulting worde and behaviour.
in
Tell me he demanded
the inspector, when the ato
had been told to Mr.
nett, VC. "Did Tawe
or at anybody?
Inkpector
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