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About Dennard
With the Dennard range of dome cameras - including the advanced 2040 and 2060 - CCTV hardware products and ancillaries, all now coming under the Dedicated Micros banner, their uptake is expected to grow dramatically.
DM certainly has ambitious plans to build on the long track record of innovation and quality which Dennard, its Hampshire-based subsidiary, has already demonstrated, through the promotion of these industry leading solutions to DM customers across the globe.
Dennard was acquired by DM back in 2003 and since that time the skills, expertise and business systems of the two organisations - both market leaders in their own right - have been brought ever closer together.
Founded more than 40 years ago, Dennard has been one of CCTV true pioneers from the very start, constantly pushing the boundaries whether in the early days with pan and tilt mechanisms, and the very first camera housings, to more recently with market-leading dome cameras.
Looking at dome cameras in particular, Dennard has demonstrated a capacity to deliver effective solutions whatever the application, typified by the introduction of vandal and waterproof options, to make outdoor use a viable proposition, and the ability of dome cameras to be applied covertly. Time and again its dome cameras have been able to prove that beauty is more than skin deep, with the technology applied to Dennard (now DM) domes constantly being refined to enhance positional accuracy - with die cast aluminium mechanisms, low light performance and durability.
Other key Dennard products which will now be promoted by DM include its full range of brackets, controllers, dome housings, camera housings, IR lamps and pan and tilts.
1957 - Denard formed taking ‘Den’ and ‘ard’ from the first names of its two founders Dennis and Richard to carry out subcontracting work.
1958 - Made its very first housing for CCTV market.
1961 - Moved to Albert Road, Aldershot and became a limited company with the spelling changed to ‘Dennard’. The company’s first ‘pan and tilt’ was unveiled, the 164, a forerunner of today’s more sophisticated models.
1964 - Bought 55 Fleet Road in Fleet, Hampshire, and an old stable block (where it still operates today). Although the CCTV market was in its infancy Dennard was becoming an ever more significant part of it, even designing the 196 a large sea going ‘pan and tilt’.
1966 – George Blake a British double-agent, serving 42 years for spying for the Soviet Union, escaped from prison, leading to the Mountbatten report and good fortune for Dennard, being awarded a prison contract to supply all of the CCTV equipment. This gave the business a boost with output doubling in the space of a year.
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