[Milsurplus] CMS Update

[Nick England]

FWIW -
CMS was made by Electronic Research & Mfg. Co. of Cleveland OH

from a February 5, 1945 magazine -
CLEVELAND - Electronic Research & Mfg.
Co. has been incorporated with $500 capital
and 200 shares no par value to manufacture
and develop electrical, chemical and mechanical
products.

November 1945 "Communications" article on miniaturized pocket receiver -
W. J. BROWN
Consulting Engineer
Research Director, Electronic Research and Mfg. Corp.
Formerly Vice President, The Brush Development Co.

1946 IRE Directory -
W. J. BROWN
Electronic & Radio Engineering Consultant
Electronic Industrial Applications, Commercial
and Broadcasting Transmitter and Receiver Design, Test Equipment, etc.
23 years experience in electronic development
1420 East 25th St., Cleveland 14, Ohio - Superior 1241

1946 advertisement attached

from Sept. 1947 Communications
W. J. Brown, P. O. Box 5106, Cleveland. Ohio,
former vice president of Brush Development Co., and now a professional
consulting
engineer, sailed recently to England to conduct a survey of European
communications development activities.
Mr. Brown, who was also formerly chief engineer of Electric and Musical
Industries, is now American consultant for EMI.

from Cleveland City Directory 1955
ELECTRONIC RESEARCH & MANUFACTURlNG CORP,
1420 E 25th 14, Tel Superior 1-5171

Jan 1961 Sprague acquires VecTrol
Walter J. Brown, President and Director of Engineering of the recently
acquired Sprague subsidiary.
Mr. Brown, well-known, English-born inventor, prior to founding
VecTrol was at various times section leader in radio research at
Metropolitan
Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.; chief engineer of the radio set division
of Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd., the largest electronic equipment
manufacturer in Great Britain; director of engineering at Philco of
Great Britain, Ltd., and vice president in charge of production and
assistant to the president at The Brush Development Co., Cleveland,
Ohio. He has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Manchester,
England. Mr. Brown presently has over 130 patents to his credit dating
back to 1923. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical
Engineers,
and a senior member of the Institute of Radio Engineers. He is
a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered
professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical
engineer in Great Britain.

....the purchase of a small engineering laboratory, VecTrol Engineering,
Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut,
in the fall of 1960. This small facility, founded by Walter J. Brown,
President, concentrates in the development
of electrical "control" devices. These devices are circuit combinations
through which one may control large
amounts of power such as used in large DC motors, electronic power
supplies, and the like.

December 1972 IEEE OBITUARY -
Walter J. Brown, electronics pioneer
Walter John Brown (M'25,SM'434, F'50, FL'68), an early pioneer in radar,
high fidelity, and miniature radios, died recently at the age of 72. He was
living in Stamford, Conn.
A native of Stockport, England, Mr. Brown was graduated from Manchester
University in 1923 with the master's degree in electronics.
Mr. Brown invented a radar tube in the 1920s. In 1945 he developed a
pocket-sized radio receiver and in 1955 a thermal control unit for
detecting minute temperature changes in cooling and heating systems.
Mr. Brown was the chief developer of "smooth speed regulator," the device
that made sewing machines automatic and was also used in many industrial
motors. His submarine and mine-detecting systems were reportedly
responsible for the U.S. Navy's ability to penetrate mine-fields in Tokyo
Bay in World War II.
Mr. Brown had been president of the Vectrol Co. of Stamford. When it became
part of the Sprague Electric Co. of North Adams, Mass., in 1964, he stayed
in Stamford and opened his own consulting firm.
He received the Premium Award from IEE (London) in 1936.
Surviving are his widow, the former Katherine Willey; a son, Robert of
Stamford; two daughters, Katherine of Stamford and Mrs. Edwin Bishop of
Youngstown, Ohio, and one grandchild.
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