User:Rich Farmbrough/The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation (Technology) (1969)

The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation (Technology) (1969) was awarded on 21 April 1969, by Queen Elizabeth II.

Recipients

The following twenty-four organisations were awarded this year.

• Ove Arup & Partners Consulting Engineers, London, W1, for technological innovation in prestressed concrete roofing.
• Bexford Ltd, of Brantham, Suffolk, for technological innovation in photographic film casting manufacture. -.
• Birlec Ltd, of Aldridge, Staffordshire, for technological innovation in electro-slag refining of steel.
• British Broadcasting Corporation Ltd, of London, W1, for technological innovation in television standards converters by the Research Department, Kihgswood Surrey, and the Designs Department, London.
• J. H. Carruthers & Co. Ltd, of East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, for technological innovation in electric cranes.
• CAV Ltd, of London; W3, for technological innovation in the commissioning and operation of the Sudbury, Suffolk, factory for the high volume production of injector nozzles for diesel engines.
• Courtaulds Ltd, of London, W1, for technological innovation in fire resistant synthetic fibres by the Research and Synthetic Fibres Divisions, Coventry.
• Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd, of London, SW1, for technological innovation in computer control of a petroleum processing complex.
• Ferodo Ltd, of Chapel-en-le-Frith, Stockport, Cheshire, for technological innovation in friction material for disc brakes.
• GKN Somerset Wire Ltd, of Cardiff, for technical innovation in stabilising high tensile steel wire and strand.
• Greengate & Irwell Rubber Co. Ltd, of Manchester, for technological innovation in conveyor belting in coal mines.
• Hewlett-Packard Ltd, of South Queensferry, West Lothian, for technological innovation in microwave link analysers.
• High Duty Alloys Ltd, of Slough, for technological innovation in the development of structural aluminium alloys for use in high speed aircraft.
• Imperial Smelting Corporation Ltd, of Bristol, for technological innovation in the smelting of zinc and lead, by that company and by Imperial Smelting Corporation (N.S.C.) Ltd. and Imperial Smelting Processes Ltd.
• Kirkpatrick Brothers Ltd, of Ballyclare,County Antrim, for technological innovation in flax preparation.
• Loewy Robertson Engineering Co. Ltd, of Bournemouth, for technological innovation in constant gap rolling mills.
• Lucas Industrial Equipment Ltd, of Fazakerley, Liverpool, for technological innovation in an expansion turbine with gas lubricated bearings.
• May & Baker Ltd, of Dagenham, Essex, for technological innovation in the development of herbicides.
• Pye Unicam Ltd, of Cambridge, for technological innovation in spectrophotometers and chromatographs.
• Scottish Mechanical Light Industries Ltd, of Ayr , for technological innovation in automated feed milling plant.
• Shoe and Allied Trades Research Association, Kettering, for technological innovation in moist heat setting in shoe manufacture.
• Staflex International Ltd, of London, WC1, for technological innovation in fusible interlinings for clothing.
• Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd, of London, WC2, for technological innovation in solid state carrier telephone systems by the Microwave and Line Division, Basildon, Essex.

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