ABSTRACT
The dawn of the twentieth century saw a change of name for the Company, for on 23 February 1900 the Wireless Telegraph and Signal Co. was reconstituted to become Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. It is perhaps of interest to note that the choice of name was a Board decision with at least one dissentient voice – that of Guglielmo Marconi himself, who did not like it. History subsequently justified his opinion to some extent, for the newspapers in particular have never seemed to be able to get it right and it was, after all, something of a mouthful. However it did duty for over sixty years until it changed in 1963 to the more manageable title of ‘The Marconi Company Ltd.’
