General Electric Company

General Electric Company (usually referred to by the acronym, G.E.C., or GEC) was a British conglomerate (not to be confused with the American company of almost the identical name) in the electrical engineering field, principally of consumer items. In 1967, it acquired AEI. It was the parent company of GEC Computers.

See also

• Early British computer manufacturers

Further reading

• Robert Jones, Oliver Mariott, Anatomy of a Merger: A History of G.E.C., A.E.I. and English Electric, Jonathan Cape, London, 1970 - mostly about the business aspects of the merger; little detail about the products (which are mostly not computer-related, anyway)
• T. W. Heather, The G.E.C.: Its History, Structure and the Future, General Electric Company, London, 1953

External links

• GEC History - covers the entire history, with some focus on the post-WWII period
• The Roots of GEC 1670–1999
• GEC Review - "a publication covering G.E.C. activities and products of interest", at the Internet Archive
• Index of Historical Papers - GEC Review
  • The History of the General Electric Company up to 1900 – Part 1 – GEC Review, Volume 14, No. 1, 1999
  • The History of the General Electric Company up to 1900 – Part 2 – GEC Review, Volume 14, No. 2, 1999
• The former GEC Archives Collection – archived website