PANORAMA ANTENNAS
Panorama Antennas is a family business now in its third generation and is a leading designer and manufacturer of antennas for radio communication. Panorama’s constant cutting-edge research ensures that our antennas meet the demands of the very latest communication technologies. Trusted by thousands of professionals and consumers the world over, our antennas are depended upon to provide communications even in the most challenging conditions. Currently, Panorama specialises in professional antenna solutions for modern communications technologies. We provide innovative antennas solutions to the critical communications, M2M and IOT, cellular LTE and In-building market sectors and we have particular expertise in providing combination antennas incorporating multiple technologies as well as fit-for-purpose solutions tailored for challenging applications. With 70 years experience in delivering world-class antenna products, Panorama’s current product range reflects our unparalleled expertise in providing high-quality performance antennas.
1947
THE BEGINNING
Founded as J.F.J. Products in 1947 by Leon Jesman, an ex-serviceman who found himself displaced after the Second World War in London with only £50 in his pocket. J.F.J. Products was one of the many small, light engineering enterprises set up in this post-war era, focusing in the highly competitive consumer market. The philosophy of J.F.J. Products was to identify a customer need and to supply it more quickly and with better products than anyone else. This approach involved a lot of trial and error in a volatile market place. Early products included mop heads stitched from rags, cake stands assembled from Perspex sheets, and eyes for ‘sleeping’ dolls that were machined out of plastic blocks. The interest in dolls’ eyes started by chance on the London Underground when Leon Jesman saw an old friend whom he had last seen in a labour camp in Siberia and who was now in the toy trade.
1948
THE EARLY YEARS
The company started off in a small building on Wadham Road in Putney, in West London. In these early years the company had only 15 employees working on the various products they produced. The operating floorsace of the company soon expanded when a factory inspector told Leon Jesman that he couldn’t have men and women working together with only one bathroom. To solve this issue Leon Jesman bought the adjacent three properties, greatly expanding the business. He bought these properties from Young’s Brewery for only £500, a small fraction of what they were worth due to the area being impacted by bombing trying to hit the nearby railway during the war.
