2 Sep
2008
2 Sep
'08
2:35 p.m.
On 2 Sep, 2008, at 20:22, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Message: 28
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:11:25 +0100
From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>
Dave McGuire wrote:
I think they stopped production earlier than that, though they were
probably selling their stock for some time after. Next to the Marconi-
Elliott works at Rochester airport was (IIRC) a Mullard thermionic
valve factory. Not to be confused with the Fisher fluid valve factory
at the other side of the Elliott works. Around 1975/6 there was a
period when due to car problems I used to wait near the Mullard works
for my regular lift home and every night there was another batch of
valve testing benches standing outside waiting to be collected. It
went on for months, probably carried on after I got my car sorted out.
On Sep 2, 2008, at 11:47 AM, bfranchuk at
jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
Did all the tubes disappear or something? LOTS AND LOTS of tubes
were
They're still being made, mostly in the former USSR. After Mullard
stopped producing valves in the 1980s, a company in the USSR bought
the
whole lot up and shipped it across. If you buy a Sovtek ECC83 or
EL34,
it's exactly like an old Mullard one. Us amp
builders
love them for their second-harmonicy crunch...
Still with out the guitar amp people, I don't think any kind of
valves
would be around for people like myself to play music through.