Celestion model C12

In 1924 Cyril French set up a business to manufacture loudspeakers in Hampton Wick. French was approached by Eric Mackintosh for help in improving his invention, one of the earliest cone loudspeakers. In 1926, The Celestion Radio Co was formed and manufactured Celestion loudspeakers and Celestion Woodroffe gramophone pickups. One year later, Mackintosh and French, patented "Improvements in and relating to loud speakers and the like instruments." The first Celestion speakers were a necessary component of the new valve receivers that appeared on the market in response to the BBC increasing its transmitter power. With the slogan, ‘The very soul of music’ the Celestion Radio Company, launched th

Speaker · Kingston upon Thames · 1927. Wooden case. By Celestion Radio Company. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.