RS

-- Main.AdrianBowyer - 04 Nov 2005

RS Electronic Supplies

This company's website is here. They supply a vast range of electronic and mechanical components, tools, and other things. They are not always the cheapest, but they are quick and reliable. The RS, incidentally, stands for Radio Spares, and dates from the days when they supplied valves by The Royal Mail to men smoking pipes and wearing jackets with leather elbow-patches who were building a wireless in their garden shed...

See also Farnell.