Panaudio Industries
Malaysian loudspeaker manufacturer that started out in the late 80's, had by the mid 90's become a fairly large manufacturer particularly as an OEM but all contact with the company was lost in late 2001, unusually for a budget Asian manufacturer of home and car audio they actually had a small line of mid end speakers that were actually quite good, here below is their last know address and contact details. Sometimes also seen listed as "Panaudio Electronics".
Panaudio Industries Sdn. Bhd., No.12 Jalan USJ 19/4A, 47600 Subang Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia.
Phone : +603 7240510 or 7240458 or 7240459 Fax : +603 7240530
Parsec Delaware Ltd.
USA based manufacturer of radio antennas and related assecories, taken over by Recoton in 1991 after it stopped trading. What makes this company unusual is that it appears to have concentraded on radio aerials rather than TV ones.
Peripheral See --> AAMP of Florida (Pre 1997) or Recoton (1998 - 2003)
Permaton
Interesting this, I was reminded of this company when I found a cachet of old cassettes from ca 1979/81, while I did have a top of the line cassette recorder at the time, I had spent all my summer wages on hi-fi so no money left for good quality cassettes, however this German company supplied chrome cassettes for the same price as others were charging for normal cassettes. Listening to these now after all this time I am stuck by the actual quality of those tapes, they outperform even the cheaper TDK chrome cassettes from that time (and those were quite a bit more expensive, at the least in the eyes of a chronically broke schoolboy), remarkable considering that the recorder was aligned up for the TDK tapes. Trying to find further info on this company on the net and elsewhere, the only thing I have come up with was a paragraph by a German bloke with the exact same recollections of the brand, further info would be appreciated.
Permax See --> Nishikawa Denpa
Permo See --> Fidelitone
Perpetuum-Ebner
Originally founded in 1906 in St. Georgen in the Black Forest in Germany as the Gebrüder Steidinger and was an amalgam of the 2 engineering workshops run by the brothers Christian and Joseph Steidiger. In 1911 after the brothers found it increasingly difficult to work together, Christian bought his brothers part in the company but as he could not raise enough capital to pay Joseph for his share he paid him partially in manufacturing equipment and clockwork parts, Joseph used this material to set up a small workshop incorporated as Perpetuum, and while he started out making clockwork parts the company had evolved into a manufacturer of electric motors, turbines and automation devices as early as 1913. Supplied motors to gramophone manufacturers before and during the first world war but began to assemble their own gramophones in 1920. Perpetuum was one of the first manufacturers to begin to make turntables for home and semi-pro use that featured electric pickups and amplification utilising the Ebner electric tonearm and later when one of the main owner of the Perpetuum company, Hermine Steidinger, married Albert Ebner, the inventor of that very same arm, the 2 companies merged and became PE. After the second world war it became one of the main suppliers of record changers and turntables to integrators and radio manufacturers, but found success in the early 60's as a supplier of standalone turntables. Merged with main competitor DUAL in 1971 and the trademark was discontinued in 1975. Interestingly enough Dual is the name used by the original Gebrüder Steidinger company after the second world war so this was a reunification of the original company after 60 years. More info on this page (in German and an absolutely brilliant page).
Pierce Wire Recorder Corp.
Originally founded in the late 20's as Radiotechnic Laboratories and was based in Evanston, Illinois, USA, made valve testers during the 30's mostly as an OEM, but as with many other companies in the depression the company was in constant financial trouble and was eventually bought by Canadian born but Chicago based union buster Charles P. Pierce (1893 - 1996) in 1938 and moved to his home town. Pierce extended the OEM and subcontracting side of the business in an attempt to generate further cash flow (the effects of the depression still being felt that late in the USA) and moved into the manufacture of sundry electrical parts. Started manufacturing wire recorders for the USA Airforce in or around 1940 originally as a subcontractor to General Electric and a little later as a primary contractor and subsequently changed the name of the company into PWRC possibly since there were other companies operating under the Radiotechnic name at the time. The company introduced the first generally available wire recorder on the market in late 1945 but one of their subcontractors Webster Chicago (Webcor) introduced a cheaper personal recorders shortly thereafter and ran away with the market which forced Pierce to concentrate on the dictation market but that proved to be difficult as well for the company when competitors like Gray Research, Brush Development Company and Dictaphone entered the marketplace in the latter half of the decade, all of whom had a better distribution channels in place. From 1948 and onwards the company was in constant financial turmoil and survived mostly on sales of Pierce Wire-O-Matic but with that product the company had an exclusive contract with the USA Air Force to supply them with recorders. The precarious financial position of the company meant that Mr. Pierce had been trying to sell the company to IBM in the 40's and to 3M Bell & Howell and Motorola in the 50's but to no avail. It remained the smallest manufacturer of dictation machines in the USA until they introduced the Pierce Dictation Belt. Subsequently the company changed it's name to Pierce Dictation Systems and it's assets were sold to IBM in July 1959 and became the basis for their dictation division.
Pink Triangle Projects Ltd.
London, England based manufacturer of high end audio products, started out in1979/80 by manufacturing a turntable by the same name that had some unusual design features such as a battery driven motor, branched into digital audio systems in 1993 to some critical acclaim, ceased trading in 1999. The rights to the name and the products was bought by in 2000 and the new company was named Pink Triangle Partnerships and the company released updated versions of some of their digital products along with a new high end CD player, but the new company somehow failed to get the markets attention and voluntarily ceased trading in the summer of 2003. The company had a number of rather interesting advertising slogans that were designed to take the mickey out of famous slogans of other British audio companies, one of the more memorable ones was : The Closest Approach to the Master Tape.
Polysonics
Run by Raymond Rodden and based in California, USA. Polysonics was a manufacturer of sound reinforcement speakers, have not been able to contact them since late 2001.
Presto
American company that made studio and broadcast products, founded in 1915 and active into the late 50's when it was gobbled up by Lear-Siegler, the Presto homepage has more info.
Proceed See --> Mardigal
Next Page : Defunct Audio Companies - R