Die folgenden Hersteller finden Sie in alphabetischer Reihenfolge / the following manufacturers can be found in alphabetical order:
A.B.T.  –  ACME Sales  –  Aireon  –  Allegro Electr. Corp.  –  Ambassador  –  AMI/Rowe   –  Antique Apparatus  –  Art Cabinet   –  Atlas  –  Berman & Co  Buckley  –  Burel  –  Cameron  –  Capehart  –  Capitol Music   –  Carson City  –  Central Standing  –  Cinematone  –  Centuri HIHL  –  Challenge Ind.  –  Charme Chicago Coin  –  Color Sonics  –  Commonwealth  –  Concert-Trope  –  Corcoran  –  Coverola  –  David Rosen  –  Deca Disc  –  Denson Company  –  Duncanson Bros  –  Evans  –  Exhibit  –  Filben  –  Gabel  –   Gerber & Glass  –  Herbert Corp.  –  Holcombe & Hoke  –  Jacobs Novelty  –  Jennings  –  Juke-Box Junior  Kass  –  Keeney  –  King Automatics  –  Kirk Electronic Mfg. –  Lindström  –  Link  –  Lockart  –  Leathurby  –  Lumi-Chrome  –  Magic Music –  Mape Distributing Melodie-Vendor  –  Midwest  –  Mills  –  Monarch  –  Packard  –  Packard Music.  –   Pantages  –  Personal Music  –   Phonette Phonovision  –  RCA  –   Regatta Reifsnyder  –  Reproduco Phonograph  –  Rhythm Air  –  Ristaucrat  –  Rock-Ola  –  Schnabel   –  Scotto  –  Seeburg  –  Shell  –  Shyvers Co.  –  Singing Towers Solotone  –  Speedway  –  Stark Novelty  –  Tel-A-Sign  –  Telo-Music  –  Telotone  –  Texas Novelty Thayer  –  United  –  Universal Dispenser  –  Utone  –  Victor Talking Machine   –  Western Electric  –  W&B Novelty  –   WICO  –   Williams   –   Wurlitzer   –  Unknown

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ACME Sales Co. New York

Wurlitzer 24
remodeled
(1940s)

Wurlitzer 412
remodeled
(1940s)

Aireon
Aireon, a company for aircraft accessories, produced electronic and radio equipment during the war and entered the jukebox market in 1946. To do so the  tooling began already in 1945. Within three years only they produced six models which were partially available with various features and in different colour combinations. After having major financial problems Aireon was closed in early 1950.

Allegro Electr. Corp.

   Jukette (1954)
non selective; RCA 3-speed manual model record changer holding 10x 78s or 12x 45s; wide 17" x height 36" x depth 16", ca. 30 lbs; wooden cabinet, clear unbreakable dome, 8" speaker; base is multocoloured cascade lighting; price less than US$100
distributed by Seacoast Distributing Co.

Art Cabinet Sales Co., Ohio

Berman and Company, IN

Capitol Automatic Music Co., New York
Samuel Kresberg founded this company in late 1929 and distributed coin operated phonographs in the metropolitain area of New York after being in business for several years already. In 1928 he patented a 12 selection mechanism similar to Western Electric and Mills with a ferris wheel. Later in 1934 he developed and patented a 16 sel. mechanism similar to the Gabel mechanism with Programatic Dial. They marketed cut-down Gabel Entertainer models but did built also the Sweet Sixteen in 1934 (16 selections). Capitol Automatic Music Co. distributed Rock-Ola as well as Seeburg jukeboxes.

Entertainer
(1936)

Centuri HIHL

Cinematone

Challenge Ind.

Charme

Samuel Kresberg - formerly connected to Capitol Music Inc. - became production manager at Batavia Metal Products Inc. in Illinois (parent company of Challenge), and then of course deeply involved in the production and design of the Filben Maestro and also the Challenge 47. Samuel Kresberg moved to Miami in Florida after the phonograph production at Batavia had stopped due to the patent disputes between Rock-Ola and Batavia (he was fed up with the phonograph business).

Charm
(1941/42?)

Chicago Coin

(1931 - 1977;
founded by Sam Gensburg and Sam Wolberg,  manufacturer of coin operated amusement games)

Commonwealth

Coverola

Deca Disc

David Rosen Inc.

The Cinebox wasn't built by but introduced by David Rosen Inc. in the USA in Feb. 1963. He got the rights for the distributorship from the Italian manufacturer S.I.F.
David Rosen also distributed Rowe jukeboxes.

Evans

Filben
William M. Filben (24.08.1892 - 01.05.1940) created the meachanism of the Maestro already in 1937, the patent was filed in 1937 and published in 3/1942 with his widow's name Berniece M. Filben. Filben itself died in 1940. The Maestro cabinet was produced at Batavia Metal Products Inc. in Illinois (parent company of Challenge) which Samuel Kresberg was deeply involved to; models of the Mirrocle line were produced in U.S. Challenge Co. in Chicago.

Gabel

Gerber & Glass (Paul Gerber and Max Glass)

Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Company - founded in 1896 as a brush business in Lafayette, Indiana

Electramuse record player

History of Holcomb & Hoke

Kass, Newark, N. J.

King Automatic

Magic Music

Symphonette
(1941)

Melodie-Vendor Corp.

Midwest

Mills

Melodie Vendor
(1965?)

Monarch Tool & Manufacturing Company, Ohio

Packard

Pantages

Personal Music Inc.

RCA - Victor Talking Machine Co.: in 1929 RCA aquired the "Victor Talking Machine Co." which had a subsidiary in Japan, too.

Reproduco Phonograph

Rhythm Air

Ristaucrat
Ristaucrat was founded in 1892 by G.W. Ristau (Gus) as an operating business: from the coin-in-a-slot-piano to the first operator for automatic phonographs (Regina phonograph). In 1929 they did produce the "Aristocrat". In 1935 they operated about 300 automatic phonographs. But during the Thirties due to the depressions they were forced to stop production. Their first mechanism  developped by Paul Smyth was sold to Rock-Ola. In the early Fifties they made a new attempt, but with no success. Ristaucrat was run by father Gus, his three sons Alfred, Harold and Arnold and his son-in-law. Models "Melodie Vendor" were produced by "Melodie-Vendor Corp. WIS".
Export by Trans-World Trading Corp.; head Joe Caldron who was as well head of the Ristaucrat export division.

Melodie Vendor
(1965?)

>>> and more info

Schnabel

Scotto Music Company, Sacramento

Shyvers Co.,  Seattle

Singing Towers Inc.

Speedway

Tel-A-Sign

Texas Novelty Co.

Western Electric Piano Company, 429 West Superior Street, Chicago                                                        >>> History of Western Electric (1 MB)
Western Electric Piano Co. was founded in 1924 by Axel F. Larson, Byron C. Waters and Russell I. Wilcox. Justus P. Seeburg bought a controlling part of the company very soon. The company went bankrupt in 1933 due to the difficult times for the whole mechanical music instrument business after the Wallstreet Crash in 1929.

Mechanic
Dynamic
(~ 1927; 1930)

W&B Novelty Co., St. Louis, MO.

416
(~1937)

also with Seeburg Rex, Royal, Gem and Regal
(1943)

W&B Novelty, located in Grand Blvd. Co., St. Louis, MO. reconditioned used jukeboxes like early Wurlitzer and Seeburgs at least until 1943.
They moved to 1012 Market Street in St. Louis in 1946 and became Seeburg distributor probably about the same time.

WICO

Seeburg V/VL/KD
(1961)

Williams Mfg. Corp.

Williams Mfg. Corp. was founded in 1946 by Harry Williams; leading company for pinballs and novelty machines; aquired by Sam Stern in 1959 and by Seeburg in 1964.

Unknown US Manufacturer

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