There was talk of the firm bringing 500 jobs, it turned out to be a gross under-estimate in the long-term. At the British Industries Fair they were billed as Manufacturers of Highest-class Gramophone Single and Double Spring Motors, Pressed Steel Turntables, Brakes, Winding Cranks, etc. The company’s workforce was a meagre 38 employees but hopes were high for expansion, even against the backdrop of high unemployment caused by soldiers returning from the Western Front. The Garrard 1 double spring motor was introduced. Slade, who was about to play a major role in the development at the Swindon factory.
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These included "Garrard"-branded cassette decks, CD players, stereo receivers, boom-box radio/cassette machines, portable "Walkman" type cassette players, serial-port printer cables, universal TV/audio remote controls, and other miscellany, including turntables that had nothing to do with any original Garrard design.” “Between 19, the Garrard brand name was licensed to other companies in the USA, which imported many electronic items built by many different and unrelated Far Eastern manufacturers. The remaining Garrard research and development operation in Swindon was reduced to a skeleton operation until completely shut down in 1992.
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In 1979, Plessey sold Garrard to Gradiente Electronics of Brazil and their turntable series production was moved to Brazil (Manaus). From 1976-1978, Garrard worked on video disc and data storage but foolishly chose not to invest in the technology. In 1960, the company was sold to Plessey, an electronics conglomerate. During this time they designed and produced some of the very best spring & electric motors followed by a huge lineage of turntables which culminated with the now world famous Garrard 301 and 401 turntables. Before this all gramophone motors were imported in from Switzerland and Germany. They initially made precision range finders and later hand-grenades marked 'G/Swindon' and the bomb releases for Wellington and Lancaster bombers.Īfter WW1, in 1919, they started producing consumer products, concentrating mainly on high-quality spring wound gramophone motors for the likes of Columbia and Decca. In 1915, Garrard & Co formed, The Garrard Engineering and Manufacturing Company, to manufacture precision parts for the military. Garrard also created some of the world's most illustrious sporting trophies, including the Americas Cup, the ICC Cricket World Cup Trophy and a number of trophies for Royal Ascot. Garrard was the first official Crown Jeweller of the UK, charged with the upkeep of the British Crown Jewels, from 1843 to 2007. George Wickes founded Garrard in London in 1735. Limited, designs and manufactures luxury jewellery and silver.