Since 1999
V-M Corporation, Supplier to Famous Name Brands Many popular record players, phonographs and consoles made in the late 1940’s through mid 1970’s used V-M record changers. During the late 1950’s through early 1960’s, most record players and phonographs made in the United States contained V-M changers. The V-M changer was very durable, and flexible to be styled to the satisfaction of the purchasing manufacturer, while remaining essentially the same in terms of the functional mechanism. From a business standpoint, V-M Corporation was first and foremost an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) Supplier. Famous (and not so well known) commercial customers and brand names that incorporated V-M changers at one time or another include (not a complete list):
| Airline (Montgomery Ward) Allied Radio American Pipe & Steel Co. Arvin Audio Industries Audiola Bendix Boetsch Bulova Burstein-Applebee Capehart Capitol Records Carnegie Electric CBS-Columbia Central Electronics Channel Master Colonial Radio Columbia Records Comet Corporation Commodore/TOK Electronics Concord Electronics Contempo Cortron Crosley Curtis Mathes Datom Decca Du Kane DuMont Dynavox Elco Electamatic Inc. Electrohome Electron Enterprise Electronic Creations Emerson |
Esco Electronics Esquire Radio Fanon Electric Gabrieloff Gambles Game Industries, Inc. (and EV/Game) General Electric Gramavox Granco Griffith Mfg. Co. Guild Hallicrafters Harben Electronics Corp. Harmon Kardon Harold Dittenhoffers Company Herold Radio Hoffman Karg Laboratories Lee Electronics Living Sound, Inc. Lowell Wood Magnavox Magnus Kit Major McSliver Mitchell Modernophone Morse Motorola Muntz TV Musicpet of California Nationwide Mfg. Ltd Newcomb Nutone Olive-Myers-Spalti Olson Electronics |
Olympic Pacific Mercury Packard Bell Penncrest (J.C. Penney) Philco Phonola Radio Craftsmen Radio Shack Raytheon RCA Reno Handel Setchell Carlson Sherwood Silvertone Singer Sonic Industries Soundesign Stromberg-Carlson Symphonic Traditional Reproductions Trav-Ler Radio Trylon Radio T. J. Bender Co. T.V. Mfg of America Vanity Fair Vidaire Electronics Warwick Waters-Conley Wells-Gardner Western Auto Westinghouse Wilshire Whitley Radio Zenith |
...not to mention numerous changers and changer kits made for export around the world!
V-M Corporation also supplied tape recorder decks to a number of manufacturers. Consumer brand reel to reel customers included Admiral, Airline (Montgomery Wards), Capitol, Clairtone, Columbia, General Electric, Motorola, Nutone, Philco, RCA, Symphonic, and Wells Gardner to name a few. In fact, the early Philco reel to reel tape recorders were manufactured entirely by V-M. Numerous cassette deck customers bought the V-M cassette decks - mainly for institutional and specialty usage, some quite sophisticated! A partial list of these include:
| Advertel American Seating Audio Visual Devices Avedex Avco Avid Beltone Benjamin Electronics Bergen Labs Creation Electronics Creatron |
Economy Co. |
P&H Electronics Scranton Industries Singer Link Source Data Automation Sylvania TCT Products Terra Technology Thomas Organ U.S.R.&D. Visual Educom |
Therefore, almost all of the consumer market V-M cassette units that you will likely encounter will carry the “Voice of Music” brand.
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