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The company was founded by the Yorkshire-born engineer Guy Fountain (1898-1977) at a garage in Tulsemere Road, Dulwich in London as the Tulsemere Manufacturing Company. It originally made battery chargers for wireless radio sets.
May 3, 2016 · Enter one Guy R Fountain, who came up with a new type of electrical rectifier, with the aim of making home-friendly chargers. This did rather well, and Fountain founded a company named after the two metals used in the rectifier: Tantalum and lead alloy.
The brand had been trademarked by 10 March 1932, on which date the Tulsemere Manufacturing Company was formally registered as Guy R. Fountain Limited. It became a household name as a result of supplying PA systems to the armed forces during World War II, and to Butlins and Pontins holiday camps after the war.
FOUNTAIN, Guy R. 1898-1977. Engineer. Gave to the language the word ‘Tannoy’, which has become synonymous with public address systems. Born in Selby, Yorkshire, he came to London during World War One, and opened a workshop in Tulsemere Road, SE27, to make battery chargers for wireless sets and in which he used a rectifier of tantalum and ...
Tannoy was founded in London in 1926 by English engineer Guy R. Fountain as the "Tulsemere Manufacturing Company".The name "Tannoy" is derived from a combination of the words " Tan talum (metal) and "lead alloy'" (alloy), materials from which Guy R. Fountain made rectifiers for radios.
Apr 17, 2017 · Tannoy’s history goes back as far as 1926 when Guy R Fountain founded the Tulsemere manufacturing company in London. It took another two years, however, until the famous name TANNOY appeared. The name itself was a cunning contraction of TANtalum/allOY – the two materials used in the company’s rectifiers.
Sep 30, 2022 · Founded in 1926 by Guy R. Fountain in London as the Tulsemere Manufacturing Company, Tannoy—a portmanteau (footnote 1) of "tantalum" and "alloy," after a tantalum-lead alloy used in rectifiers—took on its current commercial identity in 1928.
