Description
Ferranti was one of the most successful firms of the last hundred years. Known worldwide as a centre of engineering excellence and innovation, it was started by Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti in 1882. It was still family owned and run over 90 years later, giving it a distinctive culture which owed all to a passion for engineering invention and innovation. But if Ferranti was much more than just a business to the dynasty, it was more than just an employer to those it employed: to many it was part of their own extended family and an important part of their social lives. Ferranti inspired great loyalty from its workforce and successive generations of workers followed each other into the firm.
So it was a particularly poignant moment when, after having taken 100 years to build the company, it went into receivership in the same number of months. Ferranti is no more, but the history is here and the memories live on in this superb record which took accomplished author Professor John Wilson twenty years to research and write.
- Author: Prof. John F. Wilson
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN: 978-1-85936-098-9
- Pages: 640
- Illustrations: over 100
- Date of Publication: 2000
- Dimensions: 234 × 156 mm
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