Ernest Fisk at AWA, 1913-44

Introducing Sir Ernest Fisk to an Australian audience in 1948, the president of the local branch of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Ray Allsop, said, 'Sir Ernest is steeped in the pioneer ing history of wireless in Australia - I believe I would be more to the point if I put it this way: the pioneering history of wireless in Australia is steeped in Sir Ernest'. Fisk by then was almost half-way through the seven years he spent at the end of his career as managing director of Electric and Musical Industries in London. EMI was a much bigger and more global company than AWA, but it was at AWA that Fisk made his reputatjon. He was managing director from 1916 and chairman as well from 1932.