Just to make things clear there where two Siemens companies working up to the great war. Siemens AG fully Germany owned by the Siemens family, then there was Siemens here in Brit land a true British company owned by William Siemens who became a British Citizen also made Sir William Siemens just before his death and given a plaque in Westminster Abby. So the Siemens name here was at this time not thought of as a German company though at the beginning of the great war the Brit government sequestered all of the Siemens manufacturing plants taking them into state ownership. I did work for Siemens at a time when Siemens AG decided to re obtain some of the parts and trade names of William, such as "Osram" and parts of the old GEC empire including the Alstom Works at Stafford one of Williams largest factory sites that still had the major road maned Siemens drive after all this time.
