Western Electric Company Inc., Broadway 195, New York (NY).
Global activities as 'International Western Electric Company'.

Famous for Tubes: the 215-A was the first mass production miniature tube (early 20s),derived from the first peanut tube (end of WW1); licence manuf. in GB as WECOVALVE by ST&C, and in Austria by Czeija,Nissl&Co.; Ref.: Tyne et al.

In 1883 the company opened a branch office and a small store in London. There was already a branch operating in Antwerp, Belgium. The company's office moved to Norfolk House, Victoria Embankment, London WC in 1918. The exact location of the original office and store is not known. In 1898 they acquired a failing cable factory in North Woolwich, London. An 1899 advertisement shows that the company was making vulcanized cables, electric motors and insulators, among other products. The advertisement also showed offices in Antwerp and Paris.   

The British company expanded rapidly and a new factory complex was acquired in New Southgate in 1922. Radio and tube manufacture was introduced later in the same year and continued until 1925 when the International Western Electric Company was acquired by ITT. The concern was transfered to the International Standard Electric Corporation in New York and the British company name was changed to Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd.