Ericsson Telephones (ETL) was a British telephone equipment manufacturer based in Beeston, Nottinghamshire.[1] The company operated from 1903 until it was acquired by Plessy in 1961.
History
The company was founded as British L. M. Ericsson Manufacturing Co. Ltd. in 1903 as a joint-venture between the National Telephone Company (NTC) and L. M. Ericsson of Sweden (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson).
The National Telephone Company had established a factory in Beeston, Nottinghamshire in 1901, and from 1903 this became ETL's manufacturing site.
After the National Telephone Company's operations were taken over by the General Post Office in 1912, the company became solely owned by Ericsson.
The company was renamed to Ericsson Telephones Limited in 1926.
In 1948, ETL become fully independent of L. M. Ericsson. L. M. Ericsson then formed the Swedish Ericsson Company Limited[2] to maintain a trading presence in the UK (for overseas sales, for example to the Commonwealth