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Motion for Adjournment.: Govebnment Policy. (17 Nov 1919)

...to make the mouth water of international financiers. This man is still, I believe, the Commissar for Combai. Really he is a German agent, and formerly was the Russian agent of the German firm of Siemens Schuckert. This ferment spread. The Scandinavians and the Americans all fell over each other in their anxiety to get these wonderful Russian concessions. I can understand the temptation of...

Civil Services and Revenue Departments Estimates, 1922–23.: Air Mails. ( 4 May 1922)

Sir Henry Norman: ...that for telegraphic purposes in the United Kingdom there are employed the following systems:—The single-needle, the A.B.C., the Morse key and sounder, the Wheatstone, the Murray, the Hughes, the Siemens, the Baudot, the Western Electric and the Creed. Not all of those can be good. One may be good for one purpose, and another for another, but that all these should be going on side by...

Orders of the Day — Ways and Means.: Estate Duty. (23 Apr 1923)

Mr Carlyon Bellairs: ...than any material factors. I would say that in peace time it is the simplicities that matter, and I would tell the House a little story of the revolution in Berlin in the last century. General von Siemens, the great inventor in submarine telegraphy, was present at that revolution, and his description concerns the question of beer. The revolutionaries went out, and besieged the palace. A...

Oral Answers to Questions — Mercantile Marine.: Ships' Wireless Operators (Wages Dispute). ( 7 Dec 1925)

Mr Arthur Steel-Maitland: ...of wireless telegraphists, as agreed upon between the London and District Association of Engineering Employers (on behalf of The Marconi International and Marine Communication Company, Limited, and Siemens Brothers and Company, Limited) and the Association of Wireless and Cable Telegraphists prior to 1st December were £8 17s. 6d. per month in the first year of service, rising by annual...

Orders of the Day — Supply.: Post Office. (15 Nov 1926)

Sir William Bull: ...in any of these companies. I have not a single share in any of them. I did not seek the position, but I was asked to represent the small makers because I happened to be a director of Messrs. Siemens, that firm not being one of the "big six." I was very much interested in the matter, and, except when I was in India, I do not think I missed a single Board meeting. As I have said, invention...

Trusts. (22 Mar 1927)

Mr John Scurr: ...not interrupt hon. Members opposite when they are speaking, and I would ask the hon. Member to extend to me the same courtesy which I extend to others. This trust have also a controlling interest in Siemens-Rhine-Elbe Sehukert Union, and under one management they have also collieries, blast furnaces, steel works, rolling mills, machine factories, paper mills and china factories. Some hon....

Unemployment (Industrial and Fiscal Policy). (13 Mar 1930)

Mr Herbert Samuel: ...American and German firms which have come here in order to produce those goods which are not and have not been in any way protected—the General Electric, British Thomson-Houston, Western Electric, Siemens. Only a few days ago it was mentioned in the "Times" that three new American factories—no doubt on a small scale—have been opened in Welwyn Garden City for the manufacture of...

Orders of the Day — CONSOLIDATED FUND (No. 3) BILL.: Oversea Wireless Telephony. (26 Mar 1930)

Mr Hastings Lees-Smith: ...point out that the Standard Company is one of our largest tenderers, and it does £1,000,000 worth of work for us every year in competition with companies like the General Electric Company, and Siemens and Ericsson. What is the position Why should not the Post Office follow the same practice as other Departments, and why, when the Standard Company get orders which might have gone to the...

Clause 1. — (Power of Board of Trade to apply Act.) (19 Nov 1931)

Mr Aneurin Bevan: ...of being still a Free Trader and of simply bluffing the House for six months by obtaining powers which he did not intend to exercise. The hon. Member for West Swansea (Mr. L. Jones), representing Siemens' Marketing Association, I understand, whose speech was printed in a South Wales journal to-day with hilarity, said that all the steel producers of South Wales would believe that their...

Distress and Unemployment. ( 9 Dec 1931)

Mr David Kirkwood: ...of mine who was concerned with the Suez Canal, Lord Inchcape, and it was another fellow countryman of mine who discovered that you could smelt steel otherwise than by the open-hearth system—by the Siemens process. By that process the brown coal in the Ruhr and Saar valleys was made of commercial value. Before that process was discovered that coal was of no use, of no commercial value....

Import Duties Act, 1932. ( 4 May 1932)

Mr Herbert Samuel: ...reasons than tariffs. Numbers of branches of works in other countries were established here before tariffs were spoken of, such as the General Electric Company, the Western Electric Company and Siemens Brothers. Only the other day I was visiting Welwyn Garden City, and saw there a great new factory, built long before there was any question of tariffs, by an American and Canadian company,...

Totalisators. (15 Feb 1933)

...Company—not a small company; Hall's Telephone Accessories; Henley's Telegraph Works: Lightning Automatic Totalisators, Limited; Opperman, Sons and Tasker; the Phoenix Telephone and Electric Works; Siemens Brothers, of Woolwich; Small Electric Motors; Totalisators, Limited, and the Union Totalisator Company. These are companies which are at the present time, or were until a few days ago,...

Orders of the Day — Ways and Means.: Report [17TH April]. (26 Apr 1934)

Mr Harcourt Johnstone: ...a great desire to buy a British product and have gone out of our way to help the manufacturers of British-made carbons, but not at any time have we found a British carbon in any way equal to the Siemens carbons. Some 12 months ago we placed a contract with a British manufacturer but received so many complaints from our clients that we had to cancel this contract and return to the Siemens...

Orders of the Day — Supply.: Industrial Organisation. ( 3 Apr 1935)

Mr Alan Chorlton: ...points to be picked up from Germany. Those who travel there know that the boards of control in most of their industries are technically trained people. That is so with the biggest concern, such as Siemens. How can this particular aid to industry be applied? Let me refer to the industrial district of South Lancashire. You have 5,000,000 people around Manchester. There the various public...

Private Business.: SOUTHERN RAILWAY BILL (By Order). ( 3 Mar 1937)

Sir Harold Boyce: ...it was not this country which was the pioneer of electric traction as it was of steam traction. The application of electric transmission of power to the railways was first demonstrated by Dr. Siemens in the Berlin Exposition of 1879, and after that, as hon. Members know, electrification was rapidly developed in America, and the first electric railway worked in this country was, I think,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce.: Iron and Steel Industry. ( 2 Nov 1937)

Siemens Martin Acid Steel Billet Association.

Oral Answers to Questions — Aliens.: Permits (German Citizens). (10 Feb 1938)

Mr. Vyvyan Adams: asked the Minister of Labour the number of permits issued by his Department to German citizens for the purpose of taking up employment with Messrs. Siemens-Schucket (Great Britain), Limited; and whether he is satisfied that in the case of such employés their work cannot be done by British subjects?

Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office.: Telephone Service, Alderney. (12 Jun 1939)

Mrs. Adamson: asked the Post-master-General whether he can give any indication as to when the contract which has been placed with Messrs. Siemens Brothers and Company, Limited, for the laying of a telephone line to the island of Alderney is likely to be carried out; and whether, in view of the desire of the residents on the island for some telephonic communication to be established with the...

Oral Answers to Questions — Agriculture.: Telephone Manufacturers (Contracts). (19 Jun 1939)

Firms with which the Post Office has non-competitive agreements for the supply of telephone plant. — The Alton Battery Company, Limited.Automatic Telephone and Electric Company, Limited.British Insulated Cables, Limited.Britannia Batteries, Limited.Chloride Electrical Storage Company, Limited.D.P. Battery Company, Limited.Ericcsons Telephones, Limited.The General Electric Company,...

Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force: Bombing Policy ( 1 Dec 1943)

Sir Archibald Sinclair: No, Sir. Berlin is the centre of 12 Strategic railways; it is the second largest inland port in Europe; it is connected with the whole canal system of Germany; and in that city are the A.E.G., Siemens, Daimler, Benz, Focker-Wulf, Heinkel and Dornier establishments; and if I were allowed to choose only one target in Germany, the target I should choose would be Berlin.


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