Electrical
Some tv adverts of electrical items being sold in the 80′s
PIFCO 1980
Published September 30, 2010 | 
Advert fro PIFCO electrical appliances from 1980
In 1963, they needed to expand the company to increase production and needed more capital. They were forced to sell the company to Tube Investments (TI), a conglomerate of electrical appliance brands. Production was moved to Wombourne in Staffordshire, where it was shared with Creda and to Blythe Bridge, in a former aircraft factory now owned by Indesit. Russell became technical director of Creda, then managed Turnright. TI sold off their consumer brands, with the company going to Polly Peck, managed by Asil Nadir in the late 1980s. Polly Peck collapsed and Russell Hobbs was bought by Pifco based in Failsworth in 1991, then by Salton on 4th June 2001. Pifco, the British manufacturer of appliances such as teasmades became known as Salton Europe. The parent company, Salton Inc., is based in Lake Forest, Illinois and has a Canadian division in Ontario. In March 2002, Salton Europe closed down their factory in Wombourne near Wolverhampton, moving their last bit of production to China.
In December 2007, two longstanding companies in the small household appliance business, Salton, Inc. and Applica Incorporated, combined their businesses through a merger. As a result of the merger, Applica became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Salton. In December 2009, the combined company (formerly known as Salton, Inc.) changed its name to Russell Hobbs, Inc.[7]
Russell died on 16 February 2006 aged 85.[8] Hobbs died on 11 April 2008 aged 91
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OLYMPUS XA Range 1980
Published September 25, 2010 | OLYMPUS XA Range advert from 1980.
The Olympus XA was a 35 mm rangefinder camera built by Olympus of Japan. It was one of the smallest rangefinder cameras ever made, together with the Contax T.
The original model, the XA, was sold from 1979 to 1985. The original XA features true rangefinder focusing, a fast 35mm f2.8 lens, and aperture priority metering. Later cameras, models XA2 to XA4, featured scale focusing instead of rangefinders. Model XA1 used a fixed-focus lens. The Olympus XA is small and light in weight, made with a protected lens for pockets.
- Olympus XA: small rangefinder with aperture priority 35mm f2.8 lens
- Olympus XA1: simple mechanical camera with a selenium meter
- Olympus XA2: scale focus camera, automatic shutter 35mm f3.5 lens
- Olympus XA3: Same as XA2 with “DX” automatic film speed recognition
- Olympus XA4: distance focus camera, 28mm wide macro lens
Commodore 64 – Elephant Boxing 1980
Published September 6, 2010 | Commodore 64 advert from 1980 featuring the Elephant Boxing.
The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982. Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US $595. Preceded by the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore MAX Machine, the C64 features 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of memory with sound and graphics performance that were superior to IBM-compatible computers of that time. It is commonly known as the C64 or C=64 (after the graphic logo on the case) and occasionally as the CBM 64 (for Commodore Business Machines), or VIC-64. It has also been affectionately nicknamed the “breadbox” and “bullnose” due to the shape and colour of the first version of its casing.
Braun Razors 1980s
Published September 1, 2010 | Braun Razors advert from the 1980s
Max Braun, a mechanical engineer, established a small engineering shop in Frankfurt am Main in 1921. In 1923 he began producing components for radio sets. In 1928 the company had grown to such an extent, partly due to the use of certain plastic materials, that it moved to new premises on Idsteiner Strasse.
Eight years after he started his shop, Max Braun began to manufacture entire radio sets in 1929. Soon after, Braun became one of Germany’s leading radio manufacturers. This development continued with the launch of one of the first combined radio and record players in 1932.
BRAUN Stylers 1983
Published August 16, 2010 | BRAUN Stylers advert from 1983.
Braun GmbH (German pronunciation “brown”, commonly pronounced “brawn” in English), formerly Braun AG, is a German consumer products company in Kronberg im Taunus. There is also a factory situated in Carlow, Ireland.
From 1984 until 2005, Braun was a wholly owned subsidiary of The Gillette Company, which had purchased a controlling interest in the company in 1967. Braun is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Procter & Gamble, which acquired Gillette in 2005.
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