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Skriven 2008-08-13 07:15:00 av TOM WALKER (1:123/140)
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CS>We can poke fun at Packard Bell, but before they were bought out (by who kno
CS>who) they were the Cadillac of home entertainment equipment.  I can remember
CS>working on US made PB television and stereos.  All well built and engineered

CS>Remember "Stromberg Carlson"?  Another Cadillac of home entertainment
CS>equipment.  Wonder what ever happened to them?

Yes I do. And they were also in the Telephone Business.

Here is a side I found on the Internet reguarding their Highly Aclamined
Model AP-55 & 56Audio Amplifiers.
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The Official Stromberg-carlson AP-55 / AP-56 Audio Amplifier Shrine

http://www.montagar.com/~PATJ/ap56.htm

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Also this form the Internet

Stromberg-Carlson, established in 1894 in Chicago, but moved to
Rochester very early in the 1900s.     Stromberg-Carlson manufactured
more than just telephone related items. Throughout the years they made
radios, carburetors and many more items. Sold to General Dynamics, then
Plessey (England), then Siemens.

In 1894, Alexander Graham Bell's patent for the telephone  expired.
Stromberg and Carlson, Chicago employees of the American Bell Telephone
Company, each invested $500 to establish a firm to manufacture equipment
(primarily subscriber sets) for sale to independent telephone companies.

Stromberg-Carlson was originally located in Chicago, with Carlson
managing manufacture and Stromberg responsible for marketing.
Stromberg-Carlson quickly established a reputation for reliable
equipment and stable prices.

In 1901, the temporary chief executive of the Kellogg Switchboard &
Supply Company, Wallace De Wolf, assisted executives of rival telephone
equipment manufacturer Western Electric in an attempt to take over
Stromberg-Carlson. A bitter stockholder fight ensued, and the takeover
attempt failed. Stromberg-Carlson reincorporated as a New York state
corporation in 1902, where state law better protected the company from
takeover efforts.[1][2]

In 1904, Stromberg-Carlson was purchased by Home Telephone Company, a
relatively large service provider based in Rochester, New York. The new
owners quickly relocated all Stromberg-Carlson operations to New York.
In 1955, Stromberg-Carlson was purchased by General Dynamics. in 1970
Stromberg delivered the first CrossReed PBX to the newly constructed
Disney World in Orlando Florida. Over the next 10 years more than 7,000
CrossReeds were delivered globally. During the 1970's, Stromberg
developed, what is arguabally the first fully digital PBX, the "DBX".
The first DBX was delivered to Export Pa. in 1977 and consisted of 960
ports. While this first field trial had limited success, Stromberg went
on to develope the DBX-240, DBX-1200 and the DBX-5000. Also during this
same period, Stromberg developed a number of leading edge technologies
and products, including the first digital AUTOVON switching system and
the first digital Command and COntrol communications system. By 1980
General Dynamics was undergoing a significant change and in 1982,
General Dynamics sold the Stromberg Carlson operations in several parts.
The Stromberg key-systems was sold to ComDial, the PBX/DBX division was
sold to United Technologies and the Central Office division was sold to
Plessey of the UK. Plessey eventually sold "Stromberg Carlson" (which
was the DCO business unit to Siemens AG in 1991. The new company,
Siemens Stromberg-Carlson, became the third largest vendor of central
office switches in the United States-with a combined installed base of 5
million access lines. They continued to manufacture the Siemens DCO as
well as the Siemens EWSD out of the Lake Mary facility, moving
production of the EWSD from New York to Florida.
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