Guitar Amplifier manufacturer in Crayford. Any ideas?

[bass_dinger]

Shortly after leaving school in 1983, I was offered a place on a Youth Opportunities Programme, with a guitar amplifier manufacturer, based in Crayford.  

 

I didn't take the job, and can't now remember what the company was called. 

 

From memory, the amps were small combos, rather than anything high end.

 

Does anyone know what the company might have been called?  I am curious to find out who I almost worked for. 

 

[Cosmo Valdemar]

I'm interested to find out too, I'm only up the road!

[Mykesbass]

First thoughts were it would have been linked to Vox. A quick search revealed they did use a Crayford cabinet maker, PA Glock, who also made furniture. Does that ring any bells?

[pete.young]

Could be a tie-in with Vox.

 

P.A. Glock made cabinets for Vox, they were based in Crayford: https://www.voxac30.org.uk/vox_ac30_updates_2020_05.html

 

 

[pete.young]

Just now, pete.young said:

Could be a tie-in with Vox.

 

P.A. Glock made cabinets for Vox, they were based in Crayford: https://www.voxac30.org.uk/vox_ac30_updates_2020_05.html

 

 

Great minds eh @Mykesbass !

[bass_dinger]

"Prompted by the need for more space, Glock moved in that year to 1b London Road, Crayford, just over a mile up the road from the Jennings works on Dartford Road. The company remained in Crayford until 1991."

 

https://www.voxac30.org.uk/vox_ac30_cabinets.html

 

That page shows where the factory was  - near to the greyhound track, which feels right. 

 

So, the timing is right, and perhaps the place.   However, the company were not just making the cabinets, but making combo amplifiers on site, which I would have needed to test.

 

I wondered if it was a smaller operation  - perhaps inspired by the success of their neighbours, and with access to local amplifier experts.

 

However, I didn't work there because the employer told me that I had to take the role or lose my benefits.  I then called my contact in the local job centre, who said that that particular company's YOP scheme had not been approved yet, and that they had jumped the gun.  I was relieved not to have to work for them, and never contacted them again. 

 

I think that, after 41 years, I have forgotten the detailed events. 

[The fasting showman]

We could do with an old copy of Music UK. I'm casting my mind back to when I started playing in the '80s. Some brands from then that specialised in small combos:

Badger, V amp, Pro Amp , Custom Sound, Alligator, JHS?

Edited November 16 by The fasting showman
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[markbunney]

I think this would have been Vox, Dartford museum has a small display about Vox in it.

[bass_dinger]

Thanks for all of the answers. 

 

Logically, it should be Vox - the only amp manufacturer that I have evidence for being based in the area.

 

However, it was definitely a small and new business, and Badger feels like a familiar name - were it not for the fact that Badger seems to have been based in Leeds, 10 years prior to my time-slot.

 

For now, it will remain a mystery.