ACWEECO / AVO / Megger history

[Andygilham]

Hello, please allow me to introduce myself. I am Andy Gilham and I am a member of the mechanical design team at Megger Ltd in Dover, Kent. I have worked for Megger for 23 years, when they were still Avo. 
2 years ago we celebrated our 50th year in Dover with an open day. I got involved with creating a museum, by gathering instruments, information and company memoribilia. This has led me to, by default become the company historian. 

The company is planning to create a permanent museum on site, which I am planning to fill with products from our past, and so I am in the process of collecting, buying, and receiving by donation many nice product. A lot of my help coming from Richard of richard radios fame, I have visited his workshop and it's a treasure trove! 

Additionally I have also had 36,000 microfilms scanned into PDF and catalogued. These are drawing sets for avo, ACWEECO and Eversheds products dating back to the 40's. I have found some really interesting information, and I am slowly going through it and writing a detailed account! 

So, that's me and my mission. I can help out where I can and I would appreciate any information from fellow users. 

Andy Gilham

[Refugee]

Welcome to the forum.
Are you looking for lots of photos of instruments we own for a slide show?
Here is some photos of my 1943 model that is still used regularly.
http://golbornevintageradio.co.uk/forum/...p?tid=3637&highlight=giant+megger

[ppppenguin]

Andy, welcome. It's lovely when a company is aware of its history and wants to celebrate it. You've come to the right place. One of our members (Pamphonica) has an extensive collection of Avo kit. Would be worth sending him a personal message. Most of us have a few Avo bits. I think I have a AVO 8 Mk 7 and a Mk 4, alas not often used.

I hope that you will make your archive accessible online. It will be very useful for many of us.

[Alistair D]

Hello and welcome Andy.

as well as this site here is a list of other websites that have AVO data.

http://frank.pocnet.net/
https://web.archive.org/web/201606030710...ervice.htm
http://www.on4jln.be/infos/manuals.shtml
http://www.richardsradios.co.uk/avo8.html
http://www.vmarsmanuals.co.uk/

Also of interest is the UKVRRR forum where this thread may be what you are looking for.
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/show...php?t=4343

Al

[peter scott]

Hi Andy,

With reference to the UKVRRR forum this member has collected a lot of knowledge/information on AVO products:

https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/member.php?u=1119

Peter

[The Philpott]

Hello Andy, you get around, don't you!?

I do recall you showed some slides of instruments within Megger's museum at one point; this would be an opportune moment to ask whether there are any gaps in the collection that Megger feel the wish to close? i have no intention of shuffling off this mortal coil for at least another 30yrs, but when i do i would wish that the company had the opportunity to recover any rare AVO examples should they wish.

(Actually do you have a link to the image slides that i mention?)

Thanks
Dave

[Andygilham]

Thank you all for the links, info, advice and warm welcome!
I do find that these forums do get down to the details of the designs, and it's that detail that gives us a broader history of the products.
I am already a member of UKVRRR and have just posted a list of instruments I have on site. Well, the Avo ones anyway.

Andy