![]() The rear section of the RB-115 features a group of ¼" inputs: effects send/return, external speaker out, and a footswitch in to engage the SGT distortion circuit. One offers a -15db pad for active basses. The Rocket RB-115 features two separate instrument inputs. This section includes an on/off switch and rotary controls for grit and level. On the opposite side of the panel are controls for the SGT overdrive. The 1/8" jacks for headphones and aux-in are located immediately adjacent to this section. There are also push buttons for the ultra hi and ultra lo boost/cut functions that take the place of an SVT’s rocker switches. It includes knobs for volume, bass, midrange, and treble. His help.A classic, straightforward SVT-style control layout makes up most of the RB-115’s top panel-a welcome and reassuring sight. "77" Combo Amplifier (Battery-powered transistor (Non-Tremolo) Combo Amplifier (8watts approx. (Tremolo) Combo Amplifier (8watts approx. "30" Combo Amplifier (Similar to Dallas "30" above)Īmplifier (8watts approx. 1947 Dallas Clifton Junior Combo AmplifierĮxtension Speaker for "30" Combo AmplifierĪmplifier Unit (From the piggy-back Bass 15 outfit).GRAMPIAN AMPLIFIER MODELS (Discovered to Date).Most such units are seen in a two-tone green/cream finish, which suggests that they were made in the mid-late 1950s and early 1960s at which time most amp manufacturers used similar colour schemes. These were capable of being used as guitar amplifiers and some were pressed into service as such, notably by Paul McCartney and Dave Davis in the early days of the Beatles and Kinks respectively. Key markets seem to have been radios & record-players, but various small Elpico amplifiers were made as PA units or to amplify record decks and tape recorders. Other brand names used were Dulci, Princess and Elizabethan. We assume that the Elpico brand name was derived from an abbreviation of Lee Products Company (L-P-Co). The company seems to have ceased trading by circa 1970, probably due to strong competition from abroad. ![]() They became Elizabethan Electronics at the same address by 1968. By 1958 they had become Lee Products (GB) Ltd, Elpico House, Longford Street, London NW1,Īnd by 1965 they had moved again to 10-18 Clifton Street, London EC2. Dallas became Dallas-Arbiter in 1967 and continued into theĮlpico amps were made from the early 1950s by Lee Products (International) Ltd of Elpico House, Great Eastern Street, London EC2. ![]() Manufacture of the Sound City range of amplifiers which presumably superseded We believe the amplifiers were made from c.1959/60 toĬ.1965, because in 1965 Dallas bought Arbiter and at around this time commenced Guitars were branded Dallas, and later a wide range of imported Shaftesbury Street, London EC2 had added guitars and amplifiers to it's portfolio.Įarly amplifiers were branded Dallas, Shaftesbury or Rangemaster : early UK-made ![]() Instruments, and by the late 1950s Dallas Music Ltd of Dallas Building, Clifton It operated as a distributor of a wide range of musical John E Dallas & Son was a long-established company, havingīeen founded c.1875. Used on these amps were typical of the mid-late 1950s and early 1960s at which time most amp manufacturers used similar colour schemes. Portable combo amplifierss which could be used by guitar players, the ValenciaĪnd Vibromajor being perhaps the most notable. However, from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, they did produce some high-quality Grampian Reproducers Ltd, of Hanworth Trading Estate, Feltham, Middlesex, traded primarily in PA equipment from c.1950 to c.1975. This section is our attempt to sweep up the more minorĪmplifier brands of the late 1950's/early 1960's. Marshall, and these webpages are our attempts to redress the balance a little. Into the shadows by the admittedly well deserved publicity heaped upon Vox and Selmer, Watkins, Bird, and Fenton-Weill together with a few others, have been pushed We both felt very strongly that the old British amps like Amplifier Website, was a joint collaboration between Tim Fletcher and ![]()
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