The following manufacturers can be found in alphabetical order:

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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 History by Gert Almind

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 including the manufacturing rights to Art Cabinet stands for counter models, auxiliary speakers and Phonograph conversions.
Designer: Arthur Nagel

Atlas Sales Co., Kaukana, WIS

Automatic Phonograph Exhibition CO., N.Y. (1890 - 1894)

Automatic Sales Co.

Baker Novelty Co.

Bally (since 1932)

Berman and Co, IND

Kleer-Tone 125
(1945)

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

Challenge Ind.

Charm Music Cabinet Company

Challenger 47
(1946)

2000
(1942)

Chicago Coin (1931 - 1977)

Chicago Coin was founded by Sam Gensburg and Sam Wolberg which were  manufacturer of coin operated amusement games.

Cinematone (1938 - 1942)

Cinevision Corporation of America, NY   –   David Rosen Inc.

Commonwealth

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

Coverola

D. Robbins & Co.

DB Products Co.

Deca Disc

Deca Disc has the distinction to be the first record changer and the first drop changer produced. They do not seem to have been very successful, but the first Deca Disc was an acoustic machine (1 example known). Excess stock was fitted with a loudspeaker and amplifier by Ristau brothers’ Atlas Sales (2 examples known).The mechanism was also used in the 1928 Holkombe & Hoke Electramuse. We know from advertising that the company was around through the early 1930s.

Electric-Phonograph Co. (coin-operated cylinder playing phonograph; founder Cyrus Crooks Shigley; Willard Street in Kalamazoo)

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)

61, 500, 600
replacement cabinets
(1942)

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

Glass - Louis Glass (1845 - 1924)

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.

Jacobs Novelty Co. was established in 1904 by Nicholas C. Jacobs (1871 - 1936) and taken over by his son Louis A. Jacobs (1894 - 1957) in ca. 1936. In December 1940 the Replacement Cabinet Co. was incorporated by Louis, his brother Paul, and James G. Harding (1895-1966). The purpose of the company was to manufacture and sell cabinets and parts of cabinets for phonographs, radios, and other instruments. After Louis passed away, Jacobs Novelty Co. was bought out by Paul Jacobs (1907 - 1966) in 2/1956.

Juke-Box-Junior

Juke-Box-Junior 

Kass, Newark, N. J.

Keeney & Sons -  founded around 1905 by John Benjamin Keeney in Jefferson, Iowa

King Automatic

Kirk Electronic Mfg.

Kontrolled Aire Sales

Link, Binghamton, N.Y

Leathurby

Lumi-Chrome

Omaha, Nebraska

Magic Music Corp. - founded by Dick Wiggins in 1938

Wallette
(1940)

Midget
(1940)

Aux Speakers
(1940)

Wired Music
by Gert Almind

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 avaialble for models Wurlitzer 412, 616, 500, 600 Rotary, Rock-Ola Windsor

Mills

Miraben Co., Chicago

412
(1940)

Counter Phono (1940)

Modern Music

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

Coinbox
(?)

Moseley Vending Machine Exchange

Multi-Phonograph Co. (coin-operated cylinder playing phonograph; Minnesota, headed by manufacturer Edward W. Williams)

Musical Minutes

Musi-Matic Covers Co. Youngstown, Oio

National Coin Machine Exchange, Chicago, Illinois

Oxford Radio Corporation

Chromatrope 450
(1929)

P&P Marketing Inc., Illinois

Packard

Pantages, Rodney Pantages Inc., 6233 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California - later Pantages Maestro Corp.

Personal Music Inc.

Randall - Charles A. Randall (1846 - 1923)

RCA - Victor Talking Machine Co.: In 1929 RCA aquired the "Victor Talking Machine Co." which did have already a subsidiary in Japan, too.

Recordall Sales Corp., 2629-2625 Santa Fe Ave, Los Angeles, CA - 1940 - 1941 (head Marcellus Howard Stearns (1895-1959)

Regina Music Box Company of Rahway, N.J. - founded 1892

Reifsnyder

Reliable Specailty Co., Cleveland, Ohio

Reproduco Phonograph, Chicago

Ristaucrat (1892 - mid 1970s): Founded by Gustave W. Ristau; finally run by him, his sons Alfred G., Harold W. and Arnold E. and son-in-law Frank E. Meyer.

200-M
(1964)

Melodie Vendor
(1964)

More
info Ristaucrat

 Scotto Music Company, Sacramento                                                                                                                                                          

Shyvers Co., Seattle

Simplex Phonograph Corporation - founded by Russell Ira Wilcox (27.11.1879 - 29.09.1957), Chicago - also Co-founder of Western Electric

Singing Towers Inc.

Speedway

Stark Novelty Mfg. Co., founded in 1920, run by Walter Angeli, of Canton, Ohio, was a representive of O.D. Jennings. They featured phonographs and light-up ensembles next to other arcade machines, novelty games, etc.
In 1938 Walter Angeli saw the trend to rebuild automatic coin-op phonographs and decided to build lightup ensembles for his own jukeboxes on location. It did not take long, other orperators got interested and also wanted lightup ensembles for their own phonographs.
This was the start of the manufacturing end of the Stark Novelty & Mfg. Co.
Stark Novelty is still in business in fourth generation today:
https://www.angelistarknovelty.com/

Tel-A-Sign

Texas Novelty Co.

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

UST

Videobox Networks Inc., NY

A 1,000-song, computerdriven, laserdisk video jukebox capable of storing 60 hours of continuous programming. The highly sophisticated Videobox holds up to 30 double-sided laserdisks, which are stored in and flipped by a robotic stacking mechanism designed by Mitomo/Nikkyo Co., a Japanese electronics manufacturer. The use of double-sided disks gives the device a 1,000-title capacity, far more than any other video (or audio) jukebox. The device is also highly "intelligent," offering operators a wealth of information, such as the most popular selections in each of its eight categories (pop, rock, r&b/dance, jazz, country, golden oldies and in- concert); full accounting software (encoding monetary data on a non -resettable disk to ensure no tampering); a "censor" function, allowing operators to temporarily cut any selection from the playlist; complete self- diagnostic capabilities, and the ability to display its 1,000 selections alphabetically by either title or artist in each category on its amber or green built-in monitor.
The Videobox even features software which automatically senses and adjusts to any external speaker impedance of two, four or eight ohms.
The unit costs $5,495. Cost per selection is entirely selectable by the individual operator, and the box accepts both one- and five-dollar bills.
Source: BB Nov 16, 1985

Videograph

VMI

Voca-Tele, 1107 North Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, headed by E. M. Burnham

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 also produced remote control cabinets fro wallboxes and speaker from the late 1930s to ~ 1945.
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)

Mechanic
Dynamic
(~ 1927; 1930)

Western Electric Piano Co. was founded in 1924 by Axel F. Larson, Byron C. Waters and Russell Ira 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

Willey, R.W.

Williams Mfg. Corp.

Williams Mfg. Corp., the leading company for pinballs and novelty machines, was founded in 1946 by Harry Edward Williams.

Aquired by Sam Stern in 1959 and by Seeburg in 1964.

Wurlitzer

Unknown US Manufacturer

Vermutlich nie produzierte Modelle – Jukeboxes probably  never produced

Unbekanntes Zubehör - Unknown Accessories - Accessoires  Inconnus

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