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Defiance records were a very short-lived venture by a company called W.H. Reynolds Ltd,
who took over the defunct Disc Record Company's Harrow factory in 1915,
following the DRC's demise a few months before. They announced that they
were planning to produce Defiance records, made from a new unbreakable
material called Renoplex, and 24 records were listed in a press release. None of these
has yet been found in recent research. From the known details, the masters are from ARC (American Record Company), but others could be from any source that the former Disc Record Comapny had access to. The first image shown here is a composite, based on a rather poor monochrome copy and a description of the colours. It has been cleaned up, thanks to some excellent and painstaking work by Norman Field & Steve Walker, but can only be a guide until an actual record turns up. Finally, courtesy of John Culley, we have a good image from the actual record, probably the same one as above. You can see that it isn't quite as colourful as imagined! I have also included a scan of the advert from December 1915. Thanks to Norman Field for the scan, taken from Frank Andrews' archive. |
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