Lokata Company
The Lokata Company (pronounced low-kay-tah, "locator") was formed in the late 1970s in
On November 22, 1982, Lokata filed a patent application for its "Watchman", a passive marine radar detector. and spent £50,000 developing the system.[citation needed]
In 1983 a
The Ministry of Defence tried to requisition the inventor's patent, but he defied the secrecy order and went public, and a public row arose about possible loss of employment making Lokata Watchmans in Falmouth, Cornwall where he lived.[citation needed]
In 2001, support for Lokata EPIRB products was transferred to Sartech Engineering Ltd.[4]
The company was acquired by Kelvin Hughes Ltd, and eventually moved to Hainault in Essex. Production of Lokata-branded products has ceased, as the company now concentrates on products for commercial shipping.[5] Thousands of Lokata products remain in use worldwide.[4]
References
- ISBN 1-57409-093-3.
- ^ ISSN 0262-4079. Retrieved 2015-04-15.
- ISSN 0262-4079 https://books.google.com/books?id=rJFMnSKa0S0C&q=Lokata+Company&pg=PA804.)
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- ^ David Searle Electronics Archived 2008-02-28 at the Wayback Machine