The December Advertisement of the Month, “Made in Britain,” highlights some of Tek’s offshore manufacturing capability. In 1958 Tektronix set up a manufacturing facility on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel to facilitate sales of Tek instruments in Europe. This was followed by production facilities at Heerenveen in the Netherlands and Hoddesdon in the UK and a sales office in Harpenden. This ad, from the February 1983 issue of the British trade publication, Wireless World, touts the 2213 and 2215, two members of the 2200 series of portable scopes that were manufactured at Hoddesdon. These were single and dual-channel oscilloscopes, respectively, with a bandwidth of 60MHz. They were introduced in 1982. Jerry Shannon was responsible for proposing the 2200 line of scopes and he was the leader of this development project. Previously he initiated the TM500 and the 5000-series product lines. There is also a Tekscope article posted on the VTM website describing the 2213 and 2215

We also have a related news post on the Euroscope, also designed at Hoddesdon.

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