I love old pictures of the factories, assembly lines, etc. The store photos are also priceless, post what you have! This is B & W, I love the look of these speakers! 1976
Supposedly the Chatsworth Marantz Factory, built in 1976, currently on Loopnet (commercial real estate) with space for rent.
A photo of myself at the Sony Headquarters back in 2006. I believe they have moved since. No I didn't visit. It was half way between our hotel and the nearest railway station so we had to walk past. I did visit the Sony store in Toyko City Centre I just found the Sony Store. I believe this was knocked down to create more green gathering spaces for the 2020 Olympics. What a shame.
One much closer to home. This is where Philips designed and made their first CD player chipsets. It is actually where I now work, but for a different company and I doubt if anyone from back then would recognise much.
The tug of war photo after the assembly line photo is priceless. I love those monster lines of people and products, one guy having a bad day could be a huge issue.
Loads more pictures here https://epepnet.co.uk/ As background, if you bought a transitor radio in Britain in the 1960s there was about a 50% chance that the transistors were made in that factory. If you look at the production line photos, just like in the Japanese factories, most of the employees were young women. One of the publications says that they were requested to bring something like a needlework sampler to their interview to show they could do intricate work. Quite important when they were hand painting the contacts onto transistors. As for the tug of war photo, it was either at that or a similar event that they got Carry On Film Star Sid James https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_James to judge the "Miss Mullard" competition. I can't imagine them doing anything like that these days. p.s. Some bonus Sony pictures here Stories - Sony & Superscope Technologies - Museum of Magnetic Sound Recording
When I worked for the Audio/Video Company, we had about 30, mostly women, assembling the cassettes used for head cleaning on any linear tape deck including data. Mostly they had to put in black tape to block the record sensor and they labeled the cartridges for whomever the end buyer was (3M, TDK, more).
A very corporate film about Sony's factory in Wales. This is where most Raspberry Pi computers are made. An example of what a modern, highly automated, production line looks like.
This looks like the Philips building in Salfords near Gatwick Airport. I went in there once whilst at college on a trip out. They were in the early stages of flat screen lcd and led tv's, we had to wear a full anti-dust/static suit to go into the lab. I believe they also pioneered the Philips CDI player here. I bought a player from a local bootsale, the seller told me his uncle worked there and bought it, along with a stack of CDI discs that all have 'Not for resale' on them, so possibly some promo discs...
