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Variable selectivity?
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Hank wrote:
In article , gareth wrote: Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "gareth" Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors,uk.radio.amateur Subject: Variable selectivity? Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:11:43 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 62 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:11:44 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7eed01e16f1b726e7bf0868184e40653"; logging-data="3180"; "; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+1JzqQMmyCzyCfOW7Zs0Hn/3jBXvXa3C4=" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 Cancel-Lock: sha1:srPnYezJ15BqABsrB2fkVqKopN0= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: news.eternal-september.org rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors:3527 uk.radio.amateur:189325 Further information most welcome, thank-you In the 1948 Radio handbook which I mentioned previously, there are adverts from a company by the name of Millen, and I assumed it was the same guy after he had left National. I'm a bit surprised to see any doubt about James Millen as the honcho of National Company before 1939, his departure from National, and his setting up James Millen Manufacturing in Malden, Mass. a short distance from National in 1939-40. Yes, there was only one James Millen. There are a couple of web sites devoted to (Jim) Millen's history. I worked for James Millen Mfg. for a couple of years in the 1950's, so know a bit about Millen and some of the history behind the 1939 split with National. It was never entirely clear to me just what went on---on the one hand, a desire on the part of National's principal money backers to go public, and to move the company in different directions, with more consumer products; also, some financial things that reduced the money that Millen and his close associates (most or all of whom moved to Millen Mfg.) got from National. Millen was such a strong name by itself (I remember the single column ads in the back of QST in 1971 when I started reading it), I think it was only in recent years that I learned he had been part of National. That there was a connection between the two companies had always seemed obvious, though I assumed Millen had been like a subcontractor to supply parts to Natinoal. Millen probably was better off as a separate company, he could "design for excellence" and have his name more prominent. MIchael VE2BVW |
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