The Box is a major cultural and heritage attraction and archive, which opened in Plymouth’s city centre in September 2020. Its collection, formally the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA), is the regional film archive for the South West of England, comprising the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and Television South West (TSW). It also includes a significant number of donated film collections dating back to the early 1890s.
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Rank Bush Murphy Expansion
The television production line is an all wave affair in Ernesettle.
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Overview
The Rank Bush Murphy company in Ernesettle began making colour TV sets in 1949 with a 220 to 2500 increase in its workforce. By 1968 the company expanded again and in 1973 a second factory was opened at Somerset Place in Stoke making Bush, Murphy and Arena audio products until 1980. Bush became part of the Rank empire in 1945. In 1968 Rank Bush Murphy Electronics became a new division of Rank Precision Industries.
The TV sets house a cathode ray tube and a phosphorescent screen so don’t adjust your sets. In 1950 the popular DAC90A and DAC10 radios were launched and the TV22 television. By the 1960s cheaper Japanese imports from companies such as Sony with new semiconductor technology produced less cumbersome radios and televisions. UK companies merged in an attempt to fight off the competition. Rank formed an alliance with Toshiba in 1978 and in 2009 the last television was assembled as the production line moved to Poland. The once large factory in Ernesettle became a small distribution centre and is now Chinese-owned.
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