The Story of Pye 1896-2020 by Pye History Trust
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- Updated (January 2022) edition (first broadcast: October 2020).
Narrated by Elaine Midgley, with an introduction to the Pye Story Exhibition at Cambridge Museum of Technology (www.museumoftechnology.com) by Dr Bob Bates (volunteer: Pye History Trust and Cambridge Museum of Technology)
"The Story of Pye 1896-2020" created by the Pye History Trust with contributions from: Bob Bates, Roger Crabtree, Richard Howes, Richard McMullan.
Edited by Mike Wassall.
Introduction to Pye Story exhibition produced by Gordon Davies for Cambridge Museum of Technology (archive photography licensed from Historic England, Britain From Above; museum and aerial videography by The Willcox Collective, commissioned by Cambridge Museum of Technology).
Acknowledgements:
Trustees of Pye History Trust
Trustees, staff and volunteers of Cambridge Museum of Technology
Run time: 40 minutes.
Accessibility: English (UK) subtitles
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0:00 Introduction
1:40 The Pye History Project
2:39 History of Mr WG Pye 1896 to 1913
3:25 Example: Pye Galvanometer 1900's
4:31 1922 - First Pye Wireless
5:45 Examples of Early Pye Wireless Sets
6:29 1928 - The First Pye Portable Wireless
9:45 1935 - First Pye Component Company
13:42 Anti-aircraft Radar Proximity Fuze (1940)
14:03 1940 The Pye Village Industries Scheme
15:35 Pye's Explosive Growth
16:36 The Post-War Pye Group Structure
20:30 Pye Telecom - formed in 1944 to produce radio telephone equipment
21:04 Adapting War Technology for the Consumer
23:18 Pye Components and Industrial Processes - The "B" Companies
28:47 1966 'The Palace Revolution'
29:23 1967 - Philips Takeover
30:23 Stand Alone Phase
31:30 Integration and Divestment Phases
34:13 Training and Education
34:36 Telecom's Flood
35:45 Pye Works Outings
36:03 Sport and Social Activities
37:36 And Pye lives on ...
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I was employed as an apprentice at Pye of Cambridge in the 60's. I lodged in St Andrews Road. We served 5 years and moved around periodically around the various company's in Cambridge whilst attending Cambridge Technical college one day a week. I remember one of the highlights of my career was working at the Broadcast TV division. We worked on an entire outside broadcast unit that was used to transmit, 'live', a concert by the Beatles. I eventually moved on elsewhere but came back some years later, in Maidenhead, to a subsidiary company that arose out of the Philips control. Dynatron Radio made high profile TVs and Audio equipment. It moved up to East Anglia where it was thought the labour would be cheaper. It became increasingly outdated in its product line although it held the prestige of supplying items to Royal households. Eventually Philips closed it down.
I worked for Pye Telecom in Haverhill and enjoyed my time working there. Good managers and good workers.
Further to my initial comment below, it has been amazing to discover how this company contributed so
much in the UK and beyond. The story of corporate take-over and sell-off is depressingly familiar and
has undoubtedly gathered pace in this "global" world.
I have a large 1920s Pye sunburst radio in fabulous nick. Gets one radio station right at the back of the box....but I think its supposed to have a massive aerial....rather than a coathanger.
Britain can boast of so many pioneering companies in the realm of sound and vision. Pye was one of those.
i still have a "Black Box" record player with its original BSR Monarch auto-changer, dating from the 1950s.
Still a fine unit that produces quality sound despite the advances made in domestic entertainment over the
intervening decades.
Great history and great video!
right on
My dad worked at pye Birmingham nothing ever mentioned about that depot
my family
through marriage or divorce
Not that anyone asked my opinion...but anyway...ever since I was a child I always found the Pye logo really REALLY ugly. It has "angry face" vibes about it! 😠
That's cause you are not right upstairs