Tento / Technointorg / МПИ

  • Name:                 Vega (brand), Technical and Optical Equipment Ltd.;                                           London (GB)
  • Abbreviation:     Vega
  • Summary:          Technical and Optical Equipment (TOE) Ltd., Zenith                                             House, The Hyde, Edgware Road, London NW9 6EE (1986)

                                   Importer and reseller of Soviet made radios, TVs,                                                     cameras, microscopes and other electrical and optical                                           equipment.

                                   As with the similar company Comix in France, we list here                                     the (mostly re-labeled) radios and TVs of Soviet origin that                                     were imported by TOE and marketed in Great Britain.

  • Note:                   Not all products bear the Vega brand / logo, although they                              were advertised as such. For those models, please see the                              respective manufacturers. We currently don't know if Vega                              branded radios were sold only in the UK by TOE, or if this                                  brand was also used in other countries by other Soviet                                      export agencies. All models except a few sold by TOE in                                  the UK are branded "Vega" however.

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  • Founded:           1963
  • History:              Technical and Optical Equipment Ltd. started selling Soviet radio and television products in 1963. The business was run by Fanny James and                              Raphael Hyams. They took on the agency for the entire Soviet camera production at an unknown date.

                                  TOE was acquired in 1968 by Mashpriborintorg by means of political and economic pressure (the owners were forced out) and then acted as                                     an import company for Soviet made products.

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