... Marconi !MARCONI COMMUNICATIONS is to axe 450 jobs at its Chelmsford, Essex, headquarters in a bid to meet growing competiton in the industry. The redundancies, announced yesterday, represent 10% of the 4500 workforce and consultations have begun between ...

... Marconi contract MARCONI COMMAND and Control Systems of Hi!lend has been awarded a multi-million pound contract for the manufacture of secure data equipment. The firm won the U.K. Ministry of Defence Procurement Executive contract under a competitive ...

... Was Marconi Chief Admiral Henry William Grant, chairman and managing director of the Marconi group of companies from 1941-1946, has died at Lvnchmere, Surrey, aged 79. Joining the Navy when he was 13, he rose to become Deputy Director of the Operations ...

... MARCONI WORKERS ON STRIKE Two hundred workers at Marconi Command and Control near Dunfermline are staging a second one-day strike today in support of their pay claim. They are assembly workers and members of the EETPU, AUEW and EESA unions. They claim ...

... New Year. Marconi submitted his inventions the British Government after a series of experiments in 1895-6 and in 1897 the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company was founded. Two years later wireless signals were transmitted across the Channel for the first ...

... Marconi run launched DAVID SOLE, the newly-appointed captain of the Scottish rugby team, paid a visit to the factory of Marconi Command and Control Systems Ltd, near Dunfermline, yesterday, to help launch a £25,000 fund-raising run. David presented a ...

... Marconi Stmulation A B us ,ness of Marconi Instruments Ltd- a Com pa ny °MOM ...

... Marconi four are cleared THE MARCONI company and four former senior executives were cleared of cheating the Ministry of Defence yesterday when the prosecution dropped the case after a six-week trial. Marconi and two of its subsidiary companies were found ...

... for nuclear 50 Marconi Everyone is very, very pleased. The staff all worked very hard to win the contract against very strong opposition. The other front-runners in the tendering were both from America— Westinghouse and Singer—and to beat them off was ...

... Fresh offer for Marconi workforce WORKERS AT Marconi's avionics plants in Edinburgh and Fife gather today to decide on a new offer from their employers. Weekly one-day stoppages have been taking place in the capital and at Donibristle, near Crossgates ...

... MARCONI moisture metre wanted. Phone Arbroath 73255. MOBILE dipper available. Sharp. Nether Lope. Eassie. By Forfar. Telephone (030784) 333. NANNY goats (2) white. offers. Telephone 0241 76828. POTATO boxes, let this professional repair them now. Phone ...

... Raid melodramatic, claims Marconi chief A POLICE RAID by the Ministry of Defence on a Marconi factory, was branded unnecessary and melodramatic by one of the company's chiefs last night. The raid was part of an investigation into claims that the military ...