RADIO STATION EQUIPMENT

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30066, 26 February 1963, Page 12

RADIO STATION EQUIPMENT

Toshiba Head To Visit N.Z.

Mr Fumio Iwashita, president of Toshiba Electric of Tokyo, Asia’s largest single manufacturing organisation will visit Christchurch on March 1. He will also go to Auckland and to Wellington where he will see the installation of a completely transistorised . radio station produced by Toshiba Electric for the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. Mr Iwashita joined Toshiba Electric in 1917 as a light bulb salesman in South-east Asia. : He became a director in 1945 and president in 1957. He is a former chairman of the Japan Electronic Industry Development Association and the Japan Consulting Institute.

Toshiba Electric produces a range of 6000 electrical products from its 24 factories and 74 subsidiary companies. It is Japan’s biggest maker of fluorescent and incandescent lamps, semi-conductors, receiving tubes, cathode ray tubes and refrigerators. It also produces electric fans, television and radio sets, washing machines and threephase motors.

The enterprise employs 66,000 people, including 1000 ip a single research laboratory. It produces 20 per . cent, of all light and heavy electrical equipment made in Japan. The New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation uses four sets of one-kilowatt, medium - wave broadcasting equipment which were installed by' Toshiba Electric in 1961.