Survival radios and ELTs

[yahya]

Dear Colleagues, can anyone provide information on survival radios and emergency locator transmitters made by a now-defunct Italian company Elmer (Pomezia)? Any known nomenclature and specs?

 

[Grey Havoc]

Can't answer your question directly at the moment, but this may be of some help in your research:

Elmer , Pomezia manufacturer in I, Model types from Italy, 7 | Radiomuseum.org

Elmer , Pomezia manufacturer in I, Model types from Italy, 7 radios, 18 pictures, tubes, radio technology, schematics

www.radiomuseum.org

 

[Grey Havoc]

On an additional note that may be of interest, Routledge Revivals: The World Electronics Industry (1990) mentions in a footnote that Elmer of Pomezia (Rome) had become a subsidiary of Ferranti International Signal after 1987 having immediately prior to that being a subsidiary of ISC (International Signal and Control). Unfortunately that link-up via merger would ultimately prove rather disastrous, through no fault of either Elmer or Ferranti, as recounted via a post from another thread below:

More from wiki, but it's a very sad story:
"In 1987 Ferranti purchased International Signal and Control (ISC), a United States defence contractor based in Pennsylvania.[28] The company subsequently changed its name to Ferranti International plc. and restructured the combined business into the following divisions: Ferranti Computer Systems, Ferranti Defence Systems, Ferranti Dynamics, Ferranti Satcomms, Ferranti Telecoms, Ferranti Technologies and International Signal and Control.
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Unknown to Ferranti, ISC's business primarily consisted of illegal arms sales started at the behest of various US clandestine organizations. On paper the company looked to be extremely profitable on sales of high-priced "above board" items, but these profits were essentially non-existent. With the sale to Ferranti all illegal sales ended immediately, leaving the company with no obvious cash flow.

In 1989 the UK's Serious Fraud Office started criminal investigation regarding alleged massive fraud at ISC. In December 1991 James Guerin, founder of ISC and co-Chairman of the merged company, pleaded guilty before the federal court in Philadelphia to fraud committed both in the US and UK. All offences which would have formed part of any UK prosecution were encompassed by the US trial and as such no UK trial proceeded.

The financial and legal difficulties that resulted forced Ferranti into bankruptcy in December 1993."

The ISC division had been renamed Ferranti International Signal around 1990 for obvious reasons.