Orders for these helical aerials followed from the Home Office for use by the Emergency Services and from the Ministry of Defence for use with the latest military radio equipment. Panorama also designed helical aerials for Storno's new fully transportable 'compact' hand portables. Panorama responded with a revolutionary range of coaxially-fed whips and bases with moulded components that were the most robust, reliable and waterproof communications aerials available. When Storno began supplying the first transistor radio systems to the Police Service, the Panorama Radio Company was commissioned to design new communication antennas for Metropolitan Police cars. This led to a range of 'set top' and dual band telescopic aerials for BBC1 and ITV. In the early 1960s, transistor radios became the latest consumer trend and Panorama redeveloped its aerials for TV into designs for 'state of the art' portable electronic equipment. When ITV was launched, the company designed a crossover unit to combine Band I (BBC, 47MHz) and Band III (ITV 200MHz) aerial signals. Work included moulding cable assemblies for electrical instruments, and insulating handles of 'safety' hand tools. He pioneered the process of 'insert injection' moulding to improve the quality and reduce the cost of the dolls' eyes.Įventually, the business became established as a plastic moulding sub-contractor to the electronics industry. Jesman designed and built his own 'plastic injection' moulding machine from surplus aeroplane parts that were widely available in the post-war period. (Interest in dolls' eyes started by chance on the London Underground when Leon Jesman met a contact in the toy trade whom he had last seen in a labour camp in Siberia.)Įarly experience in the development of plastic moulding technology is the key to the company's subsequent success story. Early products included mop heads stitched from rags, cake stands assembled from Perspex sheets, and eyes for 'sleeping' dolls that were machined out of plastic blocks. This approach involved a lot of trial and error in a volatile market place. Products was to identify a customer need, and to supply it more quickly and with better products than anyone else. Products was one of the many small, light engineering enterprises set up after the war by ex-servicemen.
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