^ 'Fielden Electronics Ltd | Science Museum Group Collection'.^ 'Fielden (Electronics) - Graces Guide'.^ 'Fielden 'Servograph' in timber case, English early 20th Century.Journal of the Textile Institute Proceedings. ^ 'Industrial and Technological Information'.^ 'George Kent and Cambridge Instruments (Takeover) - Monday 22 July 1968 - Hansard - UK Parliament'.: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) ^ 'The early history of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company: 1878-1968'.'The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company from 1881 to 1968'. ^ 'Fielden (Electronics) Limited | Science Museum Group Collection'.^ a b 'George Kent's factory | Great War Stories'.Kent also produced avionic equipment, including aircraft fuel gauges and fuel flow meters. Kent's produced the clear view screen, a spinning transparent panel that provided visibility in wet weather. Power cylinders continue to be manufactured, alongside similar linear actuators featuring digital control technology. These are a type of linear actuator featuring a control loop where the position of the actuator is governed by some input pressure signal. Power cylinders were first manufactured in the 1950s in Luton. The company motto was 'From drops to rivers'. Industrial instrumentation Įarly Kent industrial products include water flow meters. Later products included an ice cabinet, being a well-insulated damp-proof box suitable for storing meat and dairy products a miniaturised one appeared in Queen Mary's Dolls' House. Kent's breakthrough product was a knife sharpener, first available around 1850.

Brown Boveri eventually merged with ASEA and is today the industrial giant ABB. At the same time, the company Scientific and Medical Instruments was spun-out which eventually became Cambridge Instrument Company, resurrecting that brand. Acquisition by Brown Boveri Īn acquisition in 1974 of George Kent Group by Swiss instrument company Brown Boveri caused a rename to Brown Boveri Kent. These included the bikini temperature controller, a temperature recorder, and the E296 level controller. Fielden Electronics Fielden logo following acquisition by George Kent groupįielden Electronics of Wythenshawe, Manchester produced a data recorder known as the Servograph and a capacitance-sensing proximity meter alongside a variety of scientific instruments and process control devices. Tony Benn as Minister of Technology answered questions about the Cambridge Instruments takeover in Parliament. This was the UK's largest industrial instrument manufacturer. In 1968, George Kent Ltd acquired Fielden Electronics and Cambridge Instrument Company forming the George Kent Group. Currently, as an independent organisation, the Malaysian company George Kent provide engineering and metering solutions in South-East Asia, with a diverse set of activities including the integration of railways and the manufacture of water meters. George Kent grew to have significant reach worldwide, including establishing a subsidiary in Malaysia in 1936. After the war, this grew to 5,000 workers. They were producing 140,000 shell fuses a week. The company was incorporated as a Limited Company in 1907, and was managed by the founder's son Walter George Kent.ĭuring World War One, Kent's had a factory in Luton with over 3,000 workers, mostly Munitionettes, in this case producing fuses for artillery shells. Artillery fuses, linear actuators, flow meters, ice boxes, clear view screensįounded in 1838, George Kent Ltd was initially a manufacturer of household gadgets, then a manufacturer of munitions during World War One, and became the largest British manufacturer of instruments for Industrial control systems, prior to its acquisition by Brown Boveri in 1974.

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