Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,367 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Dansette Products

From Graces Guide
Record Player.
October 1961.

of Plus-A-Gram House, Old Street, London

The Margolin brothers transformed an East End furniture and musical instrument warehouse into a maker of low cost record players, some of the first on the market; then they also introduced transistor radios

1961 Incorporated as a public company

Early 1960s Faced with cheap imports from Japan, the company tried to switch to being an importer rather than a manufacturer

1965 Acquired the goodwill and trading assets of Perdio Electronics which was being put into liquidation[1].

1965 The last year the company made profits

1968 Tried to introduce higher value hi-fi products

1969 Receiver appointed

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Oct 23, 1965
  • The Times, Oct 23, 1969