Two Great Manufacturers

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 41, 24 April 1931, Page 9

Two Great Manufacturers

7H reproduces. elsewhere a picture ™ of the ‘heads. of two of the biggest businesses in the world in conference, Mr. Henry Ford needs no introduction, and ‘his photograph has been published countless times, but how many of our..readers have seen a portrait of Dr. A. ¥,-Philips, the head of the manufacturing concern which bears his name? ‘ The Philips laboratory, has been. the birthplace:of a number of electrical invéntions, including the Metalix X-ray tube, the Argenta lamp, and the pentode wireless valve. It is of enormous extent and staffed by, famous scien- . tlsta.: ar ° "The business was founded in 1890 by Dr. Gerard: Philips, who _ retired some five or six years ago,. leaving Dr, A. F. Philips, his brother, . with whom he had worked in close association for many years, in control. ‘The prosent. head of the business is 57 years -