Marconi Factory Traditional Cache
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Clue A is on the back of the log. See Marconis Legacy for more info
By 1912 the works at Hall Street was becoming too small and Marconis decided to move into a new purposely built building. This was to be established on the site of Chelmsford Athletics Ground. In spite of a strike, the building was completed in 17 weeks in time for the International Telegraphic Conference where a special train brought delegates to Chelmsford for the Grand Opening. It is interesting to note how the men and women have separate dining quarters. Typically Men worked on machine tools in the machine shop or in carpenter's shops, whilst the women worked in producing induction coils for the spark transmitters. The Marconi Works in New Street was situated alongside the main train line to London. A railway siding ran alongside the works adjacent to the packing section so that completed equipment could be packed and loaded directly onto rail trucks. Also in 1912, the company obtained a suite of offices in the Strand, to be called Marconi House. This was to be the administration centre for the company. By 1919 a 6.5 kW experimental transmitter had been established at New St. to be superseded the following year by one of 15kW. This was used when the opera singer Lauritz Melchior made a broadcast from the New Street Works in March 1920 by now the Marconi Company was getting world recognition. At about this time Mr. Dockray went to China to install three 25kW telegraphy transmitters. Tales by installation personnel are always prone to exaggeration, so I cannot vouch for the following tale that comes courtesy of The Marconi archives in Chelmsford. It does however make very interesting reading. By 1922 the first regular wireless broadcast for purely entertainment purposes was to take place from the station Two Emma Toc (2MT) at the newly formed Marconi Research Centre at Writtle, Shortly after this a second station 2LO opened at Marconi House in the Strand.
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