User:Rich Farmbrough/The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Export & Technology (Combined) (1968)

The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Export & Technology (Combined) (1968) was awarded on 21 April 1968, by Queen Elizabeth II.

Recipients

The following eight organisations were awarded this year.

• Courtaulds Ltd of London, W1, for export achievement by Bull Royd Mill, of the Northern Textiles Division, Bradford, and, for technological innovation in a process of producing coloured acrylic fibres by the Research Division and the Synthetic Fibres Division, Coventry.
• Dowty Group Ltd of, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, for export achievement by Dowty Rotol Ltd, and, for technological innovation in a system for railway wagon control in marshalling yards by Dowty Mining Equipment Ltd of Ashchurch, Gloucestershire.
• The English Electric Co. Ltd of, London, WC2, for export achievement by Davey, Paxman and Co. Ltd, Colchester, and by Elliott Flight Automation Ltd, Rochester, Kent, and, for technological innovation in transmission of electric power by means of direct current by the D.C. Transmission Division, Stafford, in a pick-up tube for a television camera by the English Electric Valve Co. Ltd, Chelmsford, and in a colour television projection system for use with flight simulators by The Marconi Co. Ltd of Chelmsford.
• Gunson's Sortex Ltd of London, EC3, for export achievement and, for technological innovation in electronic colour sorting equipment.
• Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd of London, SW1, for export achievement by the Pharmaceuticals Division, Macclesfield, Cheshire, and, for technological innovation in the synthesis and manufacture of herbicides by the Mond Division, Runcorn, Cheshire, and the Dyestuffs Division, Manchester.
• Martin-Baker Aircraft Co. Ltd of Higher Denham, Buckinghamshire, for export achievement and, for technological innovation in ejection seats for aircraft.
• Optical Measuring Tools Ltd of Maidenhead, Berkshire, for export achievement and, for technological innovation in the production of high-precision optical scales by a photographic process.
• Strachan & Henshaw Ltd of Bristol, for export achievement by the Printing, Paper Converting and Packaging Machinery Division, and, for technological innovation in nuclear power machinery by the Mechanical Handling Division.