ROCHESTER AVIONIC ARCHIVES

The Rochester Avionic Archives (RAA), located within BAE Systems Rochester, aims to preserve a record of the products and generate pride in the people who helped create the company... The Elliott Archive was rescued from Elliott's long-established site at Lewisham when that part of the GEC business was disposed of and was housed at GEC Avionics Ltd at Rochester in Kent, At Rochester it was sorted and an initial catalogue was compiled, and some access was arranged for researchers, but that was not to be its permanent home. In the subsequent reorganisations occurring within GEC, the Elliott Archive and Collection became the property of the Marconi Corporation and spent the next few years in inaccessible locations in Essex. However, because of the difficulties befalling the Marconi company, this important historical material once again was at risk of being sold or broken up. Fortunately these plans collapsed and at short notice in 2003 the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford was..

Primary location: Rochester