The following manufacturers can be found in alphabetical order:

RCA  |  Reliable Specialty  |   Reifsnyder  |  Reproduco  |  Rhythm Air  |  Ristaucrat  |  Rock-Ola  |  Rosenfield  |  Schnabel  |  Scotto  |  Seeburg 

ACME Sales Co. New York - In 12/1940 Acme Sales Company has become Eastern distributor for the Organ type speakers of Reliable Specialty Co.

Aireon Manufacturing Corporation

Aireon, founded as Aircraft Accessories in 1937, produced electronic and radio equipment during the war. In December of 1944 they were renamed to Aireon Manufacturing Corporation 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 did close in early 1950.

Alco Deree

Aristocrat Cabinet

Alco Deree
(1949)

Art Cabinet Sales Co., Ohio

Stand for CM39
(1939-40)

In 1940 Art Cabinet Sales was purchased by Reliable Specialty Co. incl. including the manufacturing rights to Art Cabinet stands for counter models, auxiliary speakers and Phonograph conversions.

Atlas

Baker Novelty Co.

Berman and Co, IND

Herman Berman (*1910, † 2002) and his brother Louis (*1904, † 1984) co-owned L. Berman and Company.
They produced primarily  furnitures but made some wall speakers as well.
The company was sold to Zenith Corporation in 1970.

Buckley Music

Burel

Capitol Automatic Music Co., New York

Samuel Kresberg founded this company in late 1929. They distributed coin operated phonographs in the metropolitain area of New York after being in business for several years already (as Capitol Piano Co.). In 1928 Mr. Kresberg 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.

Centuri HIHL

Cinematone

Challenge Ind.

Charm Music Cabinet Company

Challenger 47
(1946)

2000
(1942)

Chicago Coin

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

Commonwealth

Corcoran, Sand Francisco, CA - distributor for Wurlitzer on the Pacific Coast in 1936 - 1940s

Coverola

D. Robbins & Co.

David Rosen Inc.

Cinejukebox 
(1966)

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.

DB Products Co.

Deca Disc

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)

500
(1940)

1944:
Re-named to "Max Glass Distributing Co." The change was effected by the purchase of the late Paul Gerber’s interest by Max Glass.

Golden Age Co.

Great States Mfg.

Haller Furn. Co.

Hardray Inc.

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

Electramuse record player

History of Holcomb & Hoke

Ideal Novelty Co.

Juke-Box-Junior

Kass, Newark, N. J.

King Automatic

Link, Binghamton, N.Y

Leathurby

Lumi-Chrome

Omaha, Nebraska

Mape Distr. Co.

Mirro-Matic
(1947-48)

Medill Electric Company – Manufacturers of illuminated grille; Chicago

R.O. Imperial
(1939)

Also available for phonographs models Rock-Ola Night Club, Regular, Rhythm Master, Rhythm King, Imperial
Wurlitzer P-10, P-30, 312, 412, 416, 616, 716
Mills Dance Master, Deluxe, Zephyr
Capehart Model 10, Model 20

Melodie-Vendor Corp.

Melodie Vendor
(1965?)

Midwest

Universal cabinets with lightup grill avaialbel for models Wurlitzer 412, 616, 500, 600 Rotary, Rock-Ola Windsor

Mills

Miraben Co., Chicago

412
(1940)

Modern Music

Symphonette
(1941)

Monarch Tool & Manufacturing Company, Ohio - Manufacturers of equipment for coin operated machines since 1910

Coinbox
(?)

Moseley Vending Machine Exchange

Musical Minutes

Musi-Matic Covers Co. Youngstown, Oio

National Coin Machine Exchange, Chicago, Illinois

Nelson

Oxford Radio Corporation

Chromatrope 450
(1929)

P&P Marketing Inc., Illinois

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.

Reifsnyder

Reliable Specailty Co., Cleveland, Ohio

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.

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200-M
(1964)

Melodie Vendor
(1964)

Sentinel Vision

Scotto Music Company, Sacramento                                                                                                                                                          

Shyvers Co.,  Seattle

Simplex Phonograph Corporation - founded by I.R. Wilcox, Chicago

Singing Towers Inc.

Speedway

Tel-A-Sign

Texas Novelty Co.

TouchTunes - formerly known as "Technical Maintenance Corporation", founded in 1998 in Montreal, Quebec; Headquarter in NYC.

UST

Videograph

VMI

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

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.

Western Electric Piano Company, 429 West Superior Street, Chicago                                                                     

Junior
Mechanic Dynamic
( ~1927)

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.

WICO

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.

 Music Mite
(1951)

Unknown US Manufacturer

Vermutlich nie produzierte Modelle – Jukeboxes probably  never produced

Unbekanntes Zubehör - Unknown Accessories - Accessoires  Inconnus

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