Re-an jack sockets

AC2, early AC4s, AC6, and AC10

In progress, March 2026

Based in Dartford a few streets across from Dartford Road, Re-an supplied JMI with jack sockets (and other accessories) from around late 1958 / early 1959. Adverts in the mainstream press were few and far between. Below, one from 1970.

Re-an sockets were used by JMI in the main for the smaller models, the principal exception being the footswitch socket of single-speaker AC/30.

Rendars were used for the AC15 (all sockets); the main inputs of the AC30; and from later 1961 for the AC10 - see this page. From mid 1963, they were also fitted to the AC4.

Burnham Road was home also to Burnham Engineering, which made chassis for Jennings in early years.

Shots of a Re-an socket removed from something other than a Jennings amp.

AC10

From late 1958 / early 1959 to late 1961. Below, the sockets in a new two-channel "square front" AC10 from mid 1960 ("Amplifier No.2"):

AC10 serial number 3224.

AC6

Early 1960 to early 1962, used in pairs:

AC6 serial number 1012.

AC2

Below, an early single-input AC2, serial number 2027 (the 27th or 28th ready for sale), late 1960. During the course of 1963, Rendar jacks were employed instead for the AC4, the model that superceded the AC2:

AC2 serial number 2027.

Single speaker AC/30

Late 1959 / early 1960 to later 1960, used for the footswitch sockets on AC/30s. Below, a detail of serial number 4158. The same types of sockets are found also in number 4072. Re-ans do not seem to have been used for AC15s.

AC/30 serial number 4158, summer or early autumn 1960, Rendars with no logo at right, Re-an at left.

1964 to 1968

JMI continued to use Re-an sockets for plug-in booster units and other smaller applications through to 1968. Below, a detail of an early JMI Treble Booster.

US-made boosters are (visibly) different.