Mini
Pye Telecom Exhibition 30 April 2009
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A private fund-raising event was held
on 30 April 2009 as part of a radio communications industry business
conference. The Custodians of the Pye Telecom Historic
Collection gave a presentation on the project and its objectives.
This was accompanied by a small exhibition of Pye Telecom equipment
(limited by the available space).
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Over the next twelve to eighteen months the
aim is to raise enough capital to establish an enhanced radio
communications museum at
the Imperial War Museum in Duxford.
The intention
is that a permanent exhibition will be used for a wide range of
educational initiatives that aim to encourage an awareness of the
importance of radio technology and engineering over the past one
hundred years and the continuing importance of these technologies for
the future.
It is intended
that the museum
would be built around the Pye Telecom Historic Collection and
equipments from other collections of military equipments.
Products and devices from other Cambridge companies including
contemporary examples of device innovation could also be incorporated.
The custodians
of the Pye Telecom Historic Collection have been working with the trade
association, Cambridge Wireless Ltd, www.cambridgewireless.co.uk
and are presently making good progress towards the goal of
raising an
initial £30,000.
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sufficient funds
are on offer for the project and detailed agreement reached with the
IWM, the Pye Telecom Historic Collection will be transfered into a
charitable trust established for the purpose, and a permanent
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In
the mean time, this web
site www.pyetelecomhistory.org
presents
selected archive material from the The Pye
Telecom Historic Collection, to
form an authoritative
"Virtual
Pye Telecom Museum", dedicated to the history, staff and equipment of
Pye
Telecom, Cambridge, England and its successors in title.
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