Pye
Telecommunications - a Royal Warrant Holder in the 1950s and 1960s
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Royal
Warrants |
Royal
Warrants are granted to people or companies who have regularly supplied
goods or services for a minimum of five consecutive years to The Queen,
The Duke of Edinburgh or The Prince of Wales. They are advised by the
Lord Chamberlain, who is head of the Royal Household and chairman of
the Royal Household Tradesmen's Warrants Committee. Each of these
members of the Royal Family can grant only one warrant to any
individual business.
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Pye Telecom
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In the
Early 1950s, Pye Telecommunications installed the PTC112 remote mount
mobile into the car belonging to HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of
Edinburgh. Later this was replaced with the higher power PTC114
and subsequently with other radiotelephone products.
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As a
result Pye Telecom became entitled to display the Royal Warrant of HRH
The Duke of Edinburgh in the 1950s and 1960s. This
small
cast and painted aluminium Royal Warrant Shield measures 198 x 180 mm
and would have been displayed on the outside of a Pye Telecom office.
A larger version of this Royal Warrant Shield was positioned over the
doorway of the main entrance to the Ditton Works premises.
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