18th November

Thanks to Björn, pictures of a Supreme speaker cabinet from later 1967 - "Solid State" beneath "VOX" on the main logo - currently in Sweden. It is likely that this cabinet along with the cabinet illustrated here (and their respective amplifiers) were part of a batch shipped to Sweden by JMI in the autumn of '67. The latter is now back in the UK.

15th November

The new page on the Vox PA50SS has now been set up here. VSEL and VSL production ran from early 1969 to "close of play" in early 1973. Around 350 amps were sold.

Detail from the "Vox Sound Limited" catalogue of August 1971.

14th November

A new page has now been made for the Vox PA100, produced by VSEL and VSL from early 1969 to late 1971 / early 1972, when it was discontinued, having proved less popular than the PAR100, which ran on until "close of play" in early 1973.

Around 300 PA100s made their way to market. VSL on the other hand sold over 500 PAR100s.

A page dedicated to the PA50 to come shortly. The main overview page on the solid state PA amplifiers will remain.

Detail from the "Vox Sound Limited" catalogue of August 1970.

13th November

Thanks to Mark, below, pics of PAR100 serial number 1078, first or second quarter of 1971. A new page on the model has been started here. Relevant pages of details have been linked in. Further material to be added shortly.

Purchased second-hand in 1978.

1st November

An entry for VSEL Conqueror serial number 2363, later 1969, has now been added here.

29th October

Thanks to Sean, pictures of "Vox Sound Equipment Limited" Conqueror serial number 2363 coming shortly. The amp was among the last issued by VSEL before it folded in late December 1969.

30th September

Posted recently on the updates page of the Vox AC100 website, probably one of the last Vox 12" wall speakers to have been been prepared for sale (and sold) - signed off on a "Vox Sound Equipment Limited" tag on 26th January 1970, the company that succeded it - "Vox Sound Limited" - having just come into being. The speaker is a Fane 122/17.

The main page on portable / wall speakers can be found here.

7th September

Thanks to Terry, pictures of Supreme serial number 1337, close to the end of the JMI run, the amp now included on this page.

21st July

Just to note, currently on ebay uk, a Lemark Vox Supreme / Super Foundation Bass mains transformer. As ever, do read the seller's description. The page on Lemark can be found here.

10th April

The top two images, a Vox Compact 100, early 1972, complete at the time of the photographs though broken up later and sold in parts. Below, the carcass of one that appeared last year, speakers still in place (good), but the amplifier section sawn off and the cabinet's grille cloth removed.

The Compact 100 was essentially a 4x12" cabinet, with wheels built into the base (as the Multi-Link cabinets), and a Slave Master amplifier section on top. There was also a 50 watt version.

4th April

Thanks to Arjan, a detail of the version of the JMI solid state catalogue and pricelist circulated in the Netherlands from Spring 1967. The northern European market was an important one for Jennings.

3rd April

Further details from the "Vox Sound Limited" catalogue of August 1971 - the Slave Master and Slave 100. Versions were available built onto 4 x 12" cabinets. Cries of "prototype" regularly rang out whenever these appeared on ebay in the early 2000s. Not so.

Also to say that following the demise of VSL in 1973, unsold Slave amplifier boxes were occasionally reworked (by a small group of former employees) to house AC30 chassis - by no means the only Frankensteins to have been created from unsold VSL stock in the 1970s.

A mid 1970s put-together - an ingenious way of making the surplus boxes saleable.

2nd April

A detail from the "Vox Sound Limited" catalogue of August 1971 - "Vox" branded mains extension leads, perhaps older stock. JMI had offered such things, made by one of the principal British electrical manufacturers, from 1963.

1st April

The NAMM show, Chicago, June 1972, Thomas Organ still going with its Vox line. Clearly it didn't matter after the event that "Vox Sound Limited" had been there with its organs under an assumed name.

Music trade press, July 1972.

31st March

A page has now been started on the pre-production Vox Supreme power section of late 1966.

General view of the underchassis

30th March (2)

An early version of the Vox Discotheque made for Radio London, pictured in the Trade Fair flyer. The pre-production model, photographed for JMI in August 1967, was a little more complex - see this page.

The Garrard SP25 decks fitted to the unit above were of a type that had been superceded by the early 1970s.

30th March

The reverse of the "Vox Parade" fold-out flyer:

29th March

"Vox Parade" - the front of the fold-out flyer from the Trade Fair pack illustrated further below. It measures 15" x 20". Shots of the reverse and salient details from both sides will be added shortly.

28th March (2)

The pages - eight currently - on the various models of Vox Gyrotone rotary speaker cabinet have now been gathered together on this index page. Further material to come shortly.

28th March

Flyer from the 1967 Trade Fair promotional pack - pictured in yesterday's entry - for the Vox Gyrotone III and Riviera Organ. The page on the Gyrotone III can be found here.

27th March

Posted on the Vox AC100 website a little while ago, a wallet of JMI promotional material picked up at the Russell Hotel Trade Fair, August 1967, by Don Miller, owner of Frank's Jewelry and Music in Graham, North Carolina. Don came to England with around 70 other Thomas dealers on a month-long European jamboree organised and paid for by Thomas. The Trade Fair was the key point on their trip.

Packs on top of the PA amplifier at the Fair.

26th March

Four new / updated entries have been added to the page on Vox Traveller amplifiers - serial numbers 1068, 1088, 1192, and 2000.

25th March

A serial number plate from a "Vox Sound Limited" Midas 50. If this was actually affixed in the early 1970s to one of these amps - extremely scarce these days - it was not on it for long. In July 1974, Dallas Arbiter used the plate for an AC30, the information panels covered over by a sticker giving details of the AC30 to which it was (and still is) reassigned.

The sticker used by Dallas to cover the information panels is now on one of the AC30's speakers.

24th March

Entries for four more Virtuosos - serial numbers 1084, 1168, 1188 and 1193 - have been added to this page. The note on the types of speakers fitted to the model has been expanded to include Celestion 8124s and 8127s.

23rd March

An entry for JMI Conqueror serial number 1435 has been added here. Two late JMI Supremes - serial numbers 1345 and 1348 - have been added towards the end of this page, along with further shots of serial number 1281.