Vox Traveller, serial number 1026 - details

A brief introduction to the amp is given .

Some notes on Vox Traveller, serial number 1026, assembled by JMI, but sold by "Vox Sound Equipment Limited" in late 1968. The inspection tag is dated 17th October '68.

The chassis number is 01139. The RCA transistors, all original, have date codes "7C", "7E", "7F" and "7G", respectively March, May, June, and July 1967. As the speaker (a Celestion T7721) does not have a readily visible date code, it is not possible to form a sense of when the amp might have been complete - certainly after July '67 and before October '68 - but within that span there is no telling how long it was simply "parts", chassis and speaker not yet fixed in the cabinet, or how long it sat complete at the rear of a pile of Travellers waiting to be sold.

Due to slow sales, the model was deleted from the catalogue by "Vox Sound Equipment Limited" at some point before February 1969.

JMI instruction card; VSEL guarantee slip and inspection tag.

Chassis number 01139, the 139th chassis to receive a stamp, though probably not the 139th to find its way to the assembly benches.

Power transformer made by Allen.

One of the two RCA power transistors, date code "7C" = March '67.

RCA 40361 and 40362 transistors, date code "7E" and "7F" = May and June 1967.

RCA 40360 transistor, date code "7G" = July 1967.

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