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"Racal" swore Ben-Levi, "Racal do they mean to defraud us of the purchase money? or, Holy Moses! are they weighing the shekels of the tabernacle?"
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When it was adopted by the British Army, Racal was on its way to becoming a stock-market star of the 1960s.
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As Mr. Harrison retired in 2000, the remaining defense-electronics part of Racal was sold to Thomson-CSF, the French business later renamed Thales, for £1.8 billion.
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After Racal spun off its biggest successes in the early 1990s, Mr. Harrison was chairman of three big public companies -- Racal, Vodafone and Chubb & Son PLC, an electronic-security firm.
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As deputy managing director in 1961, he helped float Racal stock and became chairman in 1966.
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An accountant by training, Mr. Harrison was the 13th man to join Racal.
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From an early stage, Racal appreciated that its radiotelephones would transmit data as well as speech.
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In addition to Vodafone, Racal spawned a defense-electronics company, a security firm and another telecommunications network.
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Obituaries Notable deaths from the business world and entertainment industry from Tributes. com Beginning as a subsidiary of Racal, Vodafone was hived off as a separate entity in 1988 and won full independence as a separate company with its own stock-market listing in September 1991.
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He successfully defended the now-smaller Racal from a hostile takeover by Williams Holdings, which subsequently succeeded in a bid for Chubb.
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