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Standard Telefon og Kabelfabrik
STK, or Standard Telefon og Kabelfabrik, was a telephone, electronics
and cable company in Oslo (Norway). They are commonly referred to as
Standard. STK was establised in 1915 and was finally
owned by ITT and later by Alcatel.
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The company was establised in 1915 as the Scandinavian Cable and Rubber Factory. In 1934, they were taken over by ITT/Standard Electric, at
which point it was given its new name STK. That name would remain until
1987.
In 1935, after starting the producton of telephones, they had 54 people on
the payroll. Between 1950 and the early 1970s, the company was expanded
several times and finally employed over 4000 people.
The company was based in Økern.
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The image on the right shows an artist-impression of the factory in
Økern. It had its own bus route (25) operated by Oslo Public Transport
from 1948 onwards, until it was replace by a metro line in 1966 [1].
In 1987, ITT sold STK to Alcatel, who changed the name to Alcatel Cable Norway
AS. In the early 1990s, after a series of restructuring at Alcatel,
almost all production facilities at Økern were closed. As a result,
Oslo lost one of its last major industrial employers [2].
In 2000, Alcatel split-off most of its cable operations and established
the independant Nexans company.
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The concrete structures at Økern are still present and in 2008 plans were
afoot to convert the buildings into homes and schools.
As of June 2008, the 9-story administrative building has been converted
into a first-class guest house, and is now known as Quality Hotel 33 [3].
STK also built electronic equipment, such as cipher machines,
for the American, Norwegian and NATO forces.
Good examples of such equipment are the ETCRRM
and the KL-51 (RACE).
The ETCRRM
was a cipher machine in the so-called
mixer class. It was used with
One-Time Tapes (OTT)
for many years on the Washington-Moskow 'hotline'.
The KL-51
was used by the Americans as the successor to the
KL-7.
It is known in NATO countries as RACE.
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Cipher equipment on this website
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