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   From: IainNG@kolumbus.fi   
      
   "Patrick Turner"  wrote in message   
   news:5e95f750-8bd2-4395-8603-38d126f29932@q14g2000prh.googlegroups.com...   
   On Jun 17, 1:46 am, "Iain Churches"  wrote:   
      
   Patrick   
   >> >Who really needed to buy a Radford in 1967?   
   >   
   Iain   
   >> Well broadcasters and professional studios   
   >> had them in quantity.   
      
   >Such people needed big numbers and went to ppl who made big numbers.   
      
   Huge quantities were not ordered for immediately delivery, but say   
   X units a month over 2 years.  I bet that even you would pull out all   
   the stops if you could win an order ike that, Patrick:-)))   
      
   I can remember visitng the Leak factory in Acton, London W3, with   
   my Dad circa 1955 when we took his TL12 for service (which they did   
   while we waited and drank tea in the reception area)   The place was   
   pretty small.  I can remember about 12-15 women  wearing bright   
   aprons and floral headscarves on the assembly bench, There was a   
   storeage area, a listening room and two or three "lab type" rooms   
   with people  in white coats. It was quite a nice art deco building on   
   an industrial state, probably long demolished. I was expecting   
   something much bigger.   
      
   Radford has about 120 people working at Ashton Vale Bristol   
   when I went there mid 60s.  They did everything in house, including   
   transformer windings.  There were three machines.  We were even   
   shown "Radford's Book" where all the winding info had been entered.   
   There were several buildings, metal fabrication, paint shop, amp   
   assembly, tuner assembly, test,  R+D, and offices.   
      
   The firm closed after Arthur Radford died, but Wayne Kerr took over   
   the manufacture of Radford's lab equipment, the LDO (low distortion   
   oscillator) the Psophometer, and waveform analyser.   
      
   I forgot to mention that Radford also made a "reference standard"   
   power amplfier, the ISTA which was not available to the public.   
   It was used by universities, research labs, and speaker manufacturers.   
      
   In 2006 an announcement was made that a new company using the   
   name Radford Electonics would start to build the STA series valve   
   amps again using the same Radford logo.  There were legal   
   complications, and nothing came of it.   
      
   Iain   
      
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