Documents - Jennings Organs, 1953

On this page, some material recently come to light on the Jennings Organ Company's stand at the "British Industries Fair" in May 1953. A number of the details set out on the page on 1954 - - will have to be merged with this one, particularly the notes published in May 1954 on the development of the organs. Those it is clear now really apply to 1953.

Below, a picture printed in a music trade journal in May '53 - Robin Richmond at the J51. Whether the J50 and J52 were ready at this point is not clear at present - at any rate, Jennings seems not to issued any adverts in the music trade press to promote them.

Music trade journal, May 1953. Surrounding the organ are adverts for the Univox, and an example with a "gigster" stand.

Interestingly, the company's entry in the "British Industries Fair" catalogue makes mention of single and double manual electronic organs. The J50 ("home organ") in single manual form would certainly fit the bill for the former and make sense in terms of numbering - but the questions of whether it was ready at the time, or presented at the show, have to be left open for the time being. The advert in the catalogue (lower down this page) simply mentions models of Univox.

"British Industries Fair" catalogue, May 1953.

Pages on 1954-1965 . Other years will follow soon. A sequence of pages on guitar amplifiers, beginning with 1957, .

1953

The "British Industries Fair" catalogue: the copy in the British Library contains plans for all but the ground floor of Olympia - the floor on which Jennings had its stand. An advert published by Danemann pianos, however, gives a fairly detailed schema. Danemann had stands K6 and K7. Though it is not marked, Jennings's stand - K5 - was presumably adjacent.