What dose GEC of Great Britain stand for ?
I'm thinking the G is for Genalex ?
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GEC ?
What dose GEC of Great Britain stand for ?
I'm thinking the G is for Genalex ?
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Always thought it was General Electric company
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Some how they are connected with Genalex ? Like G.E. General Electric valves?
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They joined up with Marconi and were. Called Gec Marconi. They made lots of stuff
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work.... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -
Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?
“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***
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Genalex is a re-branding name for M-O valves (Marconi - Osram). According to the company website the name Genalex is reserved for those samples of M-O valves which have the highest performance.
The Marconi company was absorbed by English Electric in 1945, which in turn was absorbed into GEC (The General Electric Company) in 1968, which was then known as GEC-Marconi. The name GEC was usually associated with heavy electrical engineering, whereas Marconi was associated with electronic engineering: radar, telecommunications, test equipment, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi_Company#History
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Genalex ad 1955 in the US 'Audio' magazine.
The M-O Valve / GEC story has lots of twists and turns, but in the early 1950s the British were trying to sell lots of goods in to the USA market to boost the UK economy. (Motor bikes, cars, HiFi, all sorts.)
Part of that was ''British Industries Corp.'' selling Leak, Garrard, Genalex, Wharfedale and RJ in the States. (and part of their logo was a golden lion...)
So a long winded way to say the G in GEC (UK) is General Electric Company, but maybe that is the 'Gen' in Generlex? Just a marketing name.
(The US GE Company is not connected to the UK GEC by the way. UK GEC had closer connections with RCA at various times I understand.)
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