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of Falmouth

1974 of Falmouth^[1]

1978 Queen's Award for Export Achievement awarded to Magnetic Components Ltd. of Penryn. Jeffrey Park, managing director.^[2]

1978 The development of audio recording using ... in Penryn near Falmouth Cornwall in February 1978 having a manufacturing area of 1000 square metres. Some 50 people are employed there specialising in the production of ferrite ceramic and glass components used in advanced design magnetic heads.</ref>Hounslow & Chiswick Informer 11 October 1979</ref>

1980 A subsidiary of Phicom; it was the largest employer in Falmouth^[3] . Manufacture of cassette recording equipment was scrapped at the Magnetic Components Ltd factory at Penryn in Cornwall^[4]

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