Hawtins and Ditchburn
Like in other countries too in UK there had been restrictions of importing non-essential goods. But GIs were based in UK and of course they missed next to families and friends their jukeboxes.
Jack Hylton, a well known band leader, got aware of this and a company called "Hawtins" manufactured the first "Jack Hylton Music Maker" in 1947 - UKs first own produced jukebox. It used a Wurlitzer Simplex mechanism
Ditchburn Equipment Company Ltd. was one of the big British companies and aquired the rights for producing the Music Maker. In 1956 Ditchburn made a contract with the German company "Tonomat" to import and distribute their jukeboxes in UK. Those were re-named to "Music Maker", too. When the restrictions were lifted they started to distribute Seeburgs, too, and later in the 60s also US and German Wurlitzer models. It seems they also did built some own models by using old technics installed in a new produced cabinet in the mid 60s.

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