Hickok
Hickok Electrical Instrument Co. is an electronics company founded in 1910 by Robert D. Hickok Sr. in Cleveland, OH. They are still in business but nowadays are mainly active in the automotive test equipment area.
In the late 1950s,, Hickok and other companies (Lavoie Laboratories, Jetronix Industries) produced unauthorized copies of Tektronix equipment under military contracts.
Tektronix sued the US government and Hickok in February 1961. The action was not settled (in their favour) until May 1970, the final award not being settled until early 1979 at just over $4 million.
Products
- Hickok 1805A (military clone of 545A)
- Hickok 1823 - clone of Tektronix 53/54C plug-in