A very interesting article. I worked in the prototype lab of RCA Australia (Artarmon, Sydney) in the late 1960s but left before the division/manufacturing plant

A very interesting article. I worked in the prototype lab of RCA Australia (Artarmon, Sydney) in the late 1960s but left before the division/manufacturing plant was closed down the early 1970s. We made professionsl broadcast and telecommunications equipment and the plant did very well (I mentioned my time there and my meeting with Sarnoff on HN a while back). Thus, it came as quite a shock when I later heard the plant had closed down as only several years earlier ('68 if I recall) Sarnoff Senior (not Robert) had visited the plant and to open a new record factory only about a dozen miles away. As I'd left before the plant was closed I wasn't privy to employees' scuttlebutt about Camden's reasons for closing it so I had to rely on industry rumors for reasons of which there were a number but none was definitive (for me it's always been a bit of a mystery). I was already aware RCA stagnanted from about 1967 onwards but this article's Fig 4 (RCA—1920 to 1986) adds numerical info of which I was unaware such as the steeper downturn around 1974, which is about when the Australian division was closed. Presumably, this downturn was at least part of the reason (many have long said the '67 decline was due to Robert Sarnoff's mismanagement). I hope someone will soon write a definitive history of RCA, it's important it's written because the Company played such an important/pivotal role in early broadcast/electronics manufacturing (BTW, when I was working there RCA was the biggest electronics company in the world).