The following manufacturers can be found in alphabetical order:

Adview

ACME Sales Co. New York

Aireon Manufacturing Corporation

  Aireon History by Gert Almind

Alco Deree

Alco Deree
(1949)

Allen-Hough Carryola Corp., Milwaukee, WIS

Ambassador

Manufacturer for phonograph cabinets and a division of Kilgen Associates Inc. established in the late 1930s by three sons of Charles Christian Kilgen (organ builders, Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc.).

Art Cabinet Sales Co., Ohio

Stand for CM39
(1939-40)

Deluxe Speaker
(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 - headed by Paul D. Bodell

Atlas Sound Co. - Brooklyn, N.Y.

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

Baker Novelty Co.

Bally (since 1932)

Batavia Metal Products

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.

Boult & Luke Company - Los Angeles, CA

Buckley Music System Inc. - 4223 West Lake Street, Chicago

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

U.S. Challenge Co., main office in Chicago, Illinois

Charm Music Cabinet Company

2000
(1942)

Chicago Coin (1931 - 1977)

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

Chicago Simplex

412
(1938)

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

Creatone No. 29
(1930)

East Coast Phonograph Distributors, Inc. 25, 10th Ave, New York - head: Sam Kresberg

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

Filben

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

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 

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

King Automatic

Kirk Electronic Mfg.

Kontrolled Aire Sales

Leathurby

Les Lorden Music Co. - Los Angeles, CA

Lindstrom/ Philco

Link Piano and Organ Company - Binghamton, N.Y, owner Edwin Albert Link Jr.

Lockhart

Lumi-Chrome

Slip on cabinets
(1938-40)

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)

Wurlitzer 616
(1939)

Melodie-Vendor Corp.

Melodie Vendor
(1965?)

Metermovies Inc. 8851 Beverly Boulevard, Hollywood, California - founder Donald Head

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

Nathanson, William - 2738 Cincinnati Street, Los Angeles, CA

Mills Panoram
Conversion
(1943)

National Coin Machine Exchange - Chicago, Illinois

Oriol Music Co. - 438 Puritan Ave, Detroit, Michigan

Leatherette
(1941)

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 Corp. - P.O. Box 720, Highway No. 1, Newark, N.J. - founded 1940 by Harold Francis Dennison, Maynard A. Laswell and Ralph F. Batch

Phonette Co. of America, Los Angeles, CA

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

Santone Coin Machine Co. - 1524 Main Avenue, San Antonio, TX

Scopitone Inc., Miami, FL - Subsidiary of Tel-A-Sign

 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.

Solotone Corp. was founded in February 1946 by William (Bud) Parr of the General Music Co., Louis B. (Mac) McCreary, formerly of the E. T. Mape Music Co., and the inventor Forrest E. (Cliff) Wilson.
The production of the Solotone units and systems, developed and designed by Forrest E. Wilson and Scott E. Allen, was contracted with the Pacific Division of the Bendix Aviation Corp. at 11600 Sherman Way in North Hollywood. Scott E. Allen was related to the Personal Music Corp. as an executive of the C-O-Two Fire Equipment Co. in Newark, New Jersey.

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, Chicago, Ill.

Telo-Music

Telomatic Products Inc.

Texas Novelty Co.

R. Thayer Co., Inc. - 47 State Street, Binghamton, NY - owner George Russell Thayer

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

Tri-Way Products Co. - 108 East 27th St, New York, NY

Illumitone
(1941)
 

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 Corp. - 601 W 26th Street, New York, NY - founded in April 1915 by inventor Victor Hugo Emerson and phonograph salesman Benjamin Abrams

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
( 1930)

Mechanic
Dynamic
(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. In 1925 Jimmy Johnson was employed as secretary and in 1930 he became general manager of the company.   The company went bankrupt in 1933 due to the difficult times for the whole mechanical music instrument business after the Wallstreet Crash in 1929.
The patents for the Selectraphone mechanism were sold to the Otto Schulz Company (Automatic Pianos resp. American Automatic Typewriter Co.) for US$1. The liquidation was done by Noel Marshall Seeburg, son of Justus Percival Seeburg.

WICO, founded by Max Wiezer in 1940

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.

Distributor for Western Europe 1956: Belgian Amusement Company, Ltd., Antwerp, Belgium, headed by Sal Groentman and Al Polak

Wurlitzer

Unknown US Manufacturer

Vermutlich nie produzierte Modelle – Jukeboxes probably never produced

Unbekanntes Zubehör - Unknown Accessories - Accessoires  Inconnus

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