Maker Info
Ericsson Telephones Limited
L. M. Ericsson was founded in 1876 by Lars Magnus Ericsson in Stockholm as a workshop to repair telegraph instruments and later telephones. Ericsson became a major supplier of telephone equipment to Scandinavia and later to England, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. In 1898, L. M. Ericsson established a London office.
The British L. M. Ericsson Manufacturing Company Ltd. was established in 1903 as a public company. It was a joint venture of L. M. Ericcson and the National Telephone Company. The factory was in Beeston. National Telephone withdrew its holdings in 1912, and from that time forward, the firm was solely owned by L. M. Ericcson.
In 1926, the name was changed to Ericsson Telephones Ltd.
In 1948, L. M. Ericsson agreed not to compete with the British division for 20 years, and all shares in it were sold to a British consortium. Ericsson Telephones Ltd was now an independent company.
That same year, a new design laboratory was set up in Beeston, and it later became the Tube Division of Ericsson Telephones Ltd. A signature product of the 1950s were Dekatrons.
In 1961, Ericcson merged with Plessey and Automatic Telephone and Electric Company to form Plessey Telecommunications.
