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    Nov 16, 2021 0 minutes

    The Industrial Collection at Chelmsford Museum () celebrates the county town’s ‘Big Three’: radio pioneers Marconi, electrical engineers Crompton and Co, and Hoffmann Bearings. Also, searching Essex Record Office’s online catalogue for ‘Hoffmann’ leads to photographs, maps, building plans and oral history recordings. Finally ERO has recently recorded 30 new oral history interviews with Marconi employees, and is digitising the company’s photographic archive.

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