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Radio Communication Company
Company type	Private (subsidiary or joint ownership)
Industry	Wireless radio
Founded	1919
Founder	Basil Binyon
Defunct	1960; 64 years ago
Headquarters	34-35 Norfolk Street, London WC2, England
Number of locations	Newcastle, Glasgow, Cardiff, Liverpool and Southampton
Key people	T. W. Stratford-Andrews (Chairman); Basil Binyon (Managing Director); Sir William R. Brooke (K.C.I.E., formerly Director General of Telegraphs, India ) Board member; Captain R.S. Hilton, Director (also Managing director of Metropolitan-Vickers)

Radio Communication Company, or RCC, was a British

34-5, Norfolk Street, London, W.C.2. T. A. " Radiocomco, Estrand, London." T. N.: Central 1021 and 3005. Established 1919. Capital £200,000. Directors: T. W. Stratford-Andrews (Chairman) Sir Wm. R. Brooke, K.C.I.E., J. H. Scrutton B. Binyon, O.B.E. (Managing). Manufactures.—Wireless apparatus for land and ship stations.

aim "The manufacture, sale and operation of radio apparatus, including 'Polar' radio equipment for ships and land stations, together with every description of broadcasting supplies"

Name: Radio Communication Co. Ltd.; London (GB) Brand: Polar Abbreviation: radiocommu Products: Model types Tube manufacturer Summary: Radio Communication Co. Ltd. 34-35 Norfolk Street, London WC2

The company made radio equipment for the Merchant Navy after World War One, and the Polar R tube at the same time. Domestic radio sets and components were also made with the trade name "Polar".^[4]

transmitting stations,

They helped the Bibby Line become the first business in the world to fit its entire fleet with radio.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

RCC had Sir William Brooke (was a member of the Board)^[5]

of 34 Norfolk Street, Strand.

Post WWI: Basil Binyon set up the Radio Communication Co. Ltd which produced (radio) equipment and provided operators for merchant and naval ships. Developed into a worldwide long-wave communications network in the 1920s and early 1930s. Also made domestic radio sets and components under the trade mark Polar

1920 Provided backing to Stanley Mullard in establishing Mullard Radio Valve Co

1922 One of the group of six telecommunications companies that founded the British Broadcasting Company.

1924 Advert for Polar radio equipment for ships.[1]

1927 Wingrove and Rogers were successors to the broadcasting business of Radio Communication Company

1928/9 Radio Communication Company was merged with Marconi in an international marine radio communication organization which supplied equipment and personnel to the merchant navies of several countries, Imperial and International Communications Ltd.

1940 Advert: Polar components^[5]

In February 1922, Sir Arthur Flemming, (Head of the research department at the Admiralty's Signal School based in Portsmouth) visited the RCC factory.

Then in March 1922, Flemming and Binyon went to visit ^[3]

Staff edit

Major Gladstone Murray, (a Canadian Rhodes scholar and former RFC pilot) joined the BBC from the RCC as recommended by Binyon in 1924 as in charge of Publicity. ^[3] He later returned to Canada and was a manager of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1936 until 1942.

British official ' lent ' to Canada to start new broadcasting service . Major Gladstone Murray of the British Broadcasting Company , left for Canada aboard the SS Majestic to advise the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission on the organisation of a national broadcasting service for Canada .^[6] For many years associated with the British Broadcasting Corporation, Major W. E. Gladstone Murray, a Canadian by birth, has returned to his native land to take control of broadcasting in Canada. Here he is seen addressing Canadian listeners shortly after his arrival in the Dominion. WAIKATO TIMES, VOLUME 120, ISSUE 20057, 1 DECEMBER 1936, PAGE 3^[7] (William Ewart) Gladstone Murray portrait from the 7 July 1936 is in the National Portrait Gallery.^[8]

History edit

Founded: 1919 Production: 1919 - History: The Radio Communications Company was founded after World War One by Basil Binyon. He graduated from Trinity College in Cambridge in 1903 and did a post graduate course in Electrical Engineering before working with the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co. In 1909 he worked with Marconi at Poldhu on the transatlantic transmission to Newfoundland. He was employed by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co.

in 1911 he was appointed engineer at Cie.Generale Radiotelegraphique in Paris and became General Manager of the Anglo French Wireless Co. In World War One he was commissioned to the Royal Naval Air Service and was made Officer in Charge of the Wireless Experimental Department in 1916. He was awarded the OBE for his work on ground telephony.

Following the War, he began the Radio Communications Company and produced equipment and trained wireless operators for the Merchant Navy and British Navy. He was a director of C F Elwell Ltd and also the Mullard Radio Valve Co. It was with his backing that Mullard was established. A Polar R tube is shown on page 393 of Tyne's "Saga of the Vacuum Tube" but these might have been made for the company by Mullard. He was one of the directors of the BBC in 1922

The company merged with the Marconi Company in the late 1920's and he was a member of this company's Board.

References edit

^ "Bulletin of the British Vintage Wireless Society Vol.23 No.3" (PDF). bvws.org. 1998. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
^ Edward Walford The county families of the United Kingdom, or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland (1960), p. 170, at Google Books
^ ^a ^b ^c Asa Briggs The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume I: The Birth of Broadcasting {1961), p. 77, at Google Books
^ "Radio Communication Co. Ltd.; London manufacturer in GB, Mod". www.radiomuseum.org. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Radio Communication Co - Graces Guide". www.gracesguide.co.uk. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
^ "Major Gladstone Murray". TopFoto. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
^ https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19361201.2.19.1. Retrieved 26 July 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
^ "(William Ewart) Gladstone Murray - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2021.

Bibliography edit

External links edit

"Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd. 1899-1949" by John Dummelow 250 pages of text and pictures. (This is a mirror of the original, which was accessed from https://web.archive.org/web/20050308065049/http://www.mvbook.org.uk/, which is a dead link as at 2018.)

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[bvws-1] "Bulletin of the British Vintage Wireless Society Vol.23 No.3" (PDF). bvws.org. 1998. Retrieved 23 July 2021.

[2] Edward Walford The county families of the United Kingdom, or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland (1960), p. 170, at Google Books

[Briggs-3] Asa Briggs The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Volume I: The Birth of Broadcasting {1961), p. 77, at Google Books

[Museum-4] "Radio Communication Co. Ltd.; London manufacturer in GB, Mod". www.radiomuseum.org. Retrieved 24 July 2021.

[Graces-5] "Radio Communication Co - Graces Guide". www.gracesguide.co.uk. Retrieved 25 July 2021.

[6] "Major Gladstone Murray". TopFoto. Retrieved 26 July 2021.

[7] ttps://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19361201.2.19.1. Retrieved 26 July 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

[8] "(William Ewart) Gladstone Murray - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 26 July 2021.

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