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Graseby was a British engineering company. HistoryAs Graseby Instruments it made and refurbished naval sonar equipment. The company (00385807) was established on 25 February 1944. It was initially situated in Tolworth in south-west London..[1] On 1 January 1982 it merged with Pye Dynamics forming Graseby Dynamics and moved its operations to the latter's site in Bushey, Hertfordshire. Graseby Dynamics' business activities were: - Marine - the ex-Instruments services,- Medical - principally Cot Death Monitors and Continuous Syringe Drivers,- Ordnance - including test and post-design services,- RF products - specialist services and the manufacture of Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs),- Ionics/Security/Analytical providing vapour detectors based up Ion Mobility Spectrometry - the three identities addressing the Military, Civil and Space markets respectively.Later Graseby Dynamics became part of Cambridge Electronic Industries plc. As part of a rationalisation process Cambridge Electronic Industries later changed it name to Graseby plc in January 1992 - a process it extended to many of its remaining subsidiaries, e.g. Newmarket Semiconductors became Graseby Semiconductors In April 1988 Graseby Ionics won the Queen's Award for Technological Achievement for CAM, a hand-held chemical agent monitor. In May 1992 Graseby plc bought Intertest. On August 7, 1997 it was bought for £136m (US$216.7m) by Smiths Industries. On March 16, 1998, Smith Industries sold Graseby Andersen and Graseby Product Monitoring to Thermo Electron. Graseby Product Monitoring included Goring Kerr,[2] Best and Allen Coding was absorbed by Thermo Sentron for US$43m. Thermo Sentron also owned competing brands such as Ramsey and Icore. Thermo Instrument Systems acquired Graseby Andersen. The aggregate price was US$73 million. Combined revenues of these companies were US$78 million. Products
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References1. ^[https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1962/1962%20-%201607.PDF Flight International August 1962] {{Hydroacoustics}}2. ^[https://www.Goring-Kerr.com Goring Kerr Metal Detectors] 12 : 1944 establishments in the United Kingdom|Companies based in Cambridge|Companies formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange|Defence companies of the United Kingdom|Defunct companies based in London|Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom|Electronics industry in London|Manufacturing companies established in 1944|Military sonar equipment of the United Kingdom|Missile guidance|Science and technology in Cambridgeshire|Sonar manufacturers |
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