The Story of Pye 1896–2020 by Pye History Trust

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 (https://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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