Description of Photograph

Photograph of the conference celebrating the installation of LEO III/41 at the New Metallurgical Plant of Klementa Gottwald (NHKG) in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. Features members of both NHKG and English Electric, including David Caminer (3rd from the left) and Sir Gordon Radley (4th from the left). 

Published in Bird, Peter, LEO - The First Business Computer, (Wokingham: Hasler, 1994), Fig 63. 

Inscription on reverse: "Celebration conference of installation of NHKG (Czechoslovakia). 1st computer installation. LEO III (including speeches dealing with history of EE and NHKG). Left to right: 1. Josef Prerost (DP Department). 2. Jaroslav Nehyba (DP Manager). 3. David Caminer EE. 4. Sir Gordon Radley (Director EE). 5. Frantisek Korihek (Director NHKG). 6. Kenneth Hall (Sales Manager EE). 7. Mr Licka (probably Deputy Director for Investment Affairs). 8. Frantisek Marek (Investment Department). The slogan reads “Through the most efficient way by means of computing technique”. 1966."

Provenance
Collected by Peter Bird as part of his research for his book LEO - The First Business Computer (1994).

Date: 1966

Photographer: Unidentified

Physical Description: 1 photographic print; black and white

Archives Hub References: CMLEO/PB/PH/3/69108
PJB/3/3/120

Other References: DCMLEO20190802065
                  
                  
                  
                  


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