Wireless Set No. 52 Canadian - Project

[David Dunlop]

Since obtaining my Switchboard, Charging No. 5C Mk I Canadian, I have been picking away at researching the Rogers Majestic Company in hopes they still have some form of surviving history archive. The company is connected historically to the current Rogers Communications through a common founder, Edward Rogers, but finding any useful information was proving elusive until this weekend.

By complete fluke, I stumbled across a history of Rogers Majestic on a radio museum website while researching something completely unrelated.

As it turns out, Edward Rogers founded the Standard Radio Manufacturing Company in 1925. Shortly thereafter, the name was changed to the Rogers Radio Tube Company. In 1928 Edward purchased a Chicago based electronics company and in the merger of the two companies, the Rogers Majestic Company was formed.

Edward Rogers died in 1939 and Small Electric Motors Limited bought Rogers Majestic in 1941 and changed the name to Standard Radio Limited. Small Electric Motors then became the Canadian division of Royal Philips Electronics who continued to use the Rogers Majestic brand name. If I am not mistaken, the parent company for Royal Philips Electronics is based in the Netherlands.



David