Birmingham Sound Reproducers

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Birmingham Sound Reproducers (BSR) was founded by Daniel McLean McDonald in 1932 at a works in Perry Park Road, Rowley Regis, Birmingham[1][2].

The company manufactured a range of turntables, amplifiers and other equipment.

In the early 1950s BSR offered a reasonably priced autochanger to Samuel Margolin and this was used in his Dansette record player, over one million of these were manufactured over the next twenty years[3][4].

BSR ceased production in 1985


[edit] References

  1. ^ Busy scenes at the BSR works
  2. ^ A little history and information about BSR (BSR McDonald)
  3. ^ History of the "Dansette" with Samuel Margolin.
  4. ^ [http://www.dansettes.co.uk/goldmine.htm Collecting Dansette Phonographs