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Construction > Materials and Supplies > Honeywell Electrical Devices and Systems India Limited | | Honeywell Electrical Devices and Systems India Limited |  | On February 10, 1919, Charles Arnold set up Heavy Current Electric Accessories Company, the company that subsequently became MK Electric, a household name and one with its headquarters and factories still based in the UK. Charles Arnold’s first factory in Park Road, Edmonton didn’t need sophisticated electrical equipment. It had gas lighting and the company’s machinery was a second hand lathe and drilling machine. Both were treadle operated like old fashioned sewing machines.The workforce consisted of three people. Two of them, Mr Arnold himself and Jack Brett, a 13 year old Tottenham lad, clocked up a combined century of service. Jack’s original wage was tuppence farthing an hour (less than a penny in today’s money) and he was expected to arrive at 7.30 and work till 6pm (except on Saturdays when he could leave at 1pm. though he still had to be there at 7.30!).
The company was based on the Multy Kontact socket, patented by Charles Arnold. Before the Multy Kontact pretty much all that was available was split pin-style sockets. They were mostly made from thick gauge slotted brass tubes, offering practically no flexibility. Plug pins were split to allow compression; but poorly made small pins would often produce a loose fit and poor contact. Large pins, on the other hand, needed too much force to insert and remove them.Multy Kontact was better and safer, though no-one knows why it was decided to spell Multy with a y rather than an i or Kontact with a k rather than a C. Just as well they did though, since the whole company eventually got named MK Electric after that one product. MC Electric doesn't sound right somehow.At the heart of the MK socket there are "numerous flexible spring tongues which actually grip the pin in much the same manner as the legs of two caterpillars on opposite sides of a flower stem", according to the original patent filed in April 1919. You don't get flowery language like that in many modern patent applications. | | Visit Website |
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