Documents concerning miscellaneous companies
MS. Marconi 391
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Documents concerning miscellaneous companies
Shelfmark
MS. Marconi 391
Summary
Comprises:
Documents concerning the National Electric Signalling Company, including correspondence about a possible amalgamation of the Marconi and Fessenden systems, 1906; a copy letter from Fessenden to The Times about the Berlin Radio-Telegraphic Convention, 1907; and a licence agreement, 1914
Documents relating to the United Wireless Telegraph Company, including press article about fraud allegations, 1910; indemnity bonds given by United Wireless Telegraph Company to H.W. Nelson Ltd, with related correspondence with Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company (which took over United Wireless), 1912; and a booklet about an alleged Marconi Wireless swindle involving the United Wireless Telegraph Company, published by J. Hugh Bauerlein, 1919
Document concerning the constitution of the (Spanish) Compania Nacionale de Telegrafia Sin Hilos, with telegram relating to the opening of a service in Spain, including the text of messages sent by the King and Queen of Spain to British and Italian counterparts, 1911-12
Documents concerning the Radio Communication Company, 1913-21
Copy agreement for sale of various properties, patents etc. by Det Kontinentale Syndikat for Poulsen Radio-Telegrafi Aktieselskab to the British and Overseas Engineering Syndicate Ltd., 1915
Press releases and other announcements and notes regarding several companies (mostly Marconi subsidiaries), including the Marconi Scientific Instrument Company, the British Danubian Trading Corporation, the Marconi International Code Company, the Austrian Marconi Company, the Norsk Marconikompani, Universal Postal Frankers, the Relay Automatic Telephone Company, the M-O Valve Company, Marconi-Ekco Instruments, and Marconi (China), 1923-48
Date
1910-48
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box
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Collection contents
Papers relating to Marconi and the development of wireless telegraphy
Other companies
Other companies
Documents concerning miscellaneous companies
