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Helnl Radio News Service
7/17/46
"QUEEN MARY", EIFFEL TOWER EXPERT TO HEAD FEDERAL RADIO
Edward N. Wendell, who has "been associated with the Inter¬ national Telephone and Telegraph Corporation system since 1925, has been appointed Vice president in charge of the Federal Telephone and Radio Corporation, domestic manufacturing affiliate of I. T. & T.
Mr. Wendell in his new post assumes full managerial authority of FTR, which last year produced in excess of $80,000,000 of telephone, radio and electronic equipment for the Armed Forces and civilian use.
Mr. Wendell has been with FTR since its formation in 1942 from predecessor companies, and has served as head of the con¬ cern's Radio Division and Manager of its Telephone Division. In 1944 he was made a Vice-President of FTR.
Upon his graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1925, Mr. Wendell Joined the engineering staff of I. T. & T. , and was assigned to the corporation's Cuban and Spanish telephone properties. Later he directed the construction of the overseas telephone stations for I. T. & T. at Madrid, the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands and was in charge of the radio installations aboard the QUEEN MARY.
In 1935 he directed the original engineering phases of the development of the Eiffel Tower television station by I. T. & T. affiliated laboratories in Paris, France, and following this assign¬ ment was made Chief Engineer of the Spanish Telephone Company, Re¬ turning to the United States in 1937, Mr. Wendell was assigned to the International Telephone Development Company, later integrated with the old Federal Telegraph Company, in connection with technical phases of instrument landing systems. Under his direction, tests of the I. T. & T. instrument landing system, then being used in Europe, were conducted at Indianapolis, Indiana. These tests inter¬ ested the Civil Aeronautics Administration and led to the installa¬ tion of such a system at Indianapolis. The system, especially designed and built to function efficiently under weather and ground conditions prevalent in the United States, was produced under Mr. Wendell's direction.
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THREE MORE WARTIME ELECTRONIC PLANTS FOR SALE
Three electronic devices plants, designed for the produc¬ tion of radio transmission tubes and ceramic capacitators, have been declared surplus and are offered for sale or lease by the War Assets Administration. Located in Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin, the plajits have atotal reported cost to the government of $5,479,781.
A Salt Lake City, Utah, plant, leased and operated during the war by Eitel McCullough, Inc., was completed in 1942 at a re¬ ported cost of $735,657. The principal structure, on a land tract of about 10 acres, contains in excess of 100,000 sq. ft. , and is equipped with all standard and special machinery and devices for
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