OUR PRODUCT MANUFACTURERS

    Grampian Reproducers of Hanworth Trading Estate, Feltham, Middx. Telephone: Feltham 2657. Cables: "Reamp, Feltham" 1947 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Microphones, Amplifiers, Loud Speakers, Gramophone Recording Equipment. (Olympia, Ground Floor, Stand No. C.1515)

  1959 The Hacker Brothers left Dynatron and established a new company Hacker Radio. They aimed at the top end of the market, and gained an enviable reputation in the trade. 1977 Due to an increasingly competitive market and cheaper imports, Hacker went into the hands of the receiver in May 1977.

Horstmann of Newbridge Works, 93 Newbridge Road, Bath, Somerset. (1922) Ditto Address: Telephone: Weston (Bath) 7241/2. Telegraphic Address: "Horstmann, Bath". (1937) Established 1890s by Sydney Horstmann 1922 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Scientific Models, Industrial Testing Apparatus, Clocks, Cases for Clocks. (Stand No. E.42) 1937 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. This exhibit comprises the complete range of Newbridge Automatic Lighting Appliances. Controllers (for all types of Lamps), "Comet", Igniters, Switches for Domestic Lighting, and Gas Fires, Gas Pistols, Pressure Governors, etc. (Stand No. Ca.508) 1937 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Newbridge Type 5/3/Enc. (Main Tap...

The Hammarlund story began in 1882 when Oscar Hammarlund, the Company's founder, came to America from his native home in Stockholm,  Sweden. Oscar had been a special tool designer and inspector of electrical instruments for the L. M. Erickson Company, leading instrument manufacturers and originators of the French-type telephone. He came tothe USA country to accept a similar position with the Elgin Watch Company.   After four years with Elgin, hethen  joined the Western Electric Company as superintendent of the Chicago plant. A further six years later he became designing engineer of the Gray National Company,  working closely with the founder,...

Edward Bayard Heath (1888-1931) started his career in the aviation business. He built his first airplane in 1909 based on a Bleriot monoplane design. In 1912 he acquired the Bates Aeroplane Co in Chicago, Illinois, and refloated it in 1913 as the E.B. Heath Aerial Vehicle Co, that was manufacturing and trading aviation parts.     During WWI the business and  grew and Edward Heath changed the name of his company to Heath Airplane Company and developed i the 'Feather' - his 3rd airplane design, called the "Feather" in 1918.  Production was shelved as  there was no available market due to the market being dominated...