Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Symphony Gramophone and Radio Co

From Graces Guide

Factories at Wolverhampton and Abergavenny

1928 Share issue for £200k to form the company and acquire two factories. One factory at Wolverhampton, the Stewart Street works of AJS; the other was acquired from Gilwern Manufacturing Co of Abergavenny. Stewart Street was used for producing radio receivers, radiograms and loudspeakers. Abergavenny was used for the production of gramophone motors[1] [2]

1928 Symphony Gramophone & Radio (Foreign) Limited formed with £200k capital [3]

1929 Plessey produced the first British-made portable battery radio, the “National” which it supplied to Symphony and Columbia.

1930 Petition for winding up the company by Plessey Co

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Friday, Oct 05, 1928
  2. The Times, Monday, Oct 08, 1928
  3. The Times, Monday, Dec 10, 1928