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Well of course it did lead to making them the same and they became identified with numbers those original wide modules that I mentioned earlier, the 2.8 inch were the ’51 series’, the 1051’s and 1052’s and 1053’s. My Factory Manager Jim le-Hay, used to tear his hair out and say “Why in the world can’t we build two the same, it would be so much easier, instead of having to do 48 or 50 modules with one set of specs and another set, another 48, with some marginal differences.
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“Life in those days was full of interest because from some points of view, no two consoles were the same the input modules were pretty much all different, you’d go from one console to another and there would be different detail. Tony had a great knack of finding the one thing which wasn’t quite right!” “The person who did do a final overall “sales acceptance” of each console prior to dispatch was Tony Cornwell or one of his sales engineering team. Mike Thompson’s winning cartoon in the Christmas 1969 Neve NewsletterĪs John Turner had just been promoted to Senior Test Engineer, we assume that’s him under the console! We expect to achieve a further 80% growth in 1970 and between 30% and 40% in the years that follow up to 1975.Īfter that we shall have to think again.”Īnd humour was still to be found amongst all the hard work keeping up with the booming sales: For instance, if a Neve apprentice doubled his income every year, he would be earning a million a year by 1980! But we do have a growth target. Taking the last year before “becoming a Limited Company” as a base, the output of the business has beenġ968 400% (again double the previous year)ġ969 1400% (31/2 – times the previous year) The Neve Companies were formed on 1st December, 1966 to take over the business previously run privately by Mr. Thank you one and all.Īnd while we are thinking about growth – here are some figures! Everybody has carried an unusual burden during the past six months, and none more so than the Project Engineers, whose loyalty and dedication have achieved so much to keep customers happy during these difficult days. “2,000 square feet to Melbourn’s 12,000 resulted in something like an explosion in production, once the initial disarray had been overcome. The Melbourn Neve factory in the snow was the heading image, and Rupert gave some facts about the growing production: The heading drawing for the Neve Christmas 1969 newsletter The Customer list at that time was impressive, even by today’s standards, with over 50 leading organisations in 15 countries being owners of Neve equipment.” “By 1968/69 almost 50% of Neve consoles were exported with a turnover of approximately £360,000. I remember on one of the weekends, prior to moving into the factory, driving from Cambridge to Melbourn in a blizzard in order to wire up the mains supply to the new the wooden test benches for the test department.”
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“The Melbourn factory opened in March 1969. feet, to build a factory about 10 miles south of Cambridge, in the little town of Melbourn.” Finally we had agreement from them, providing we did not exceed 10,000 sq. And the Planners were opposing us at every step of the way.
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“In 1968, we realised that we could not continue in this house it was far smaller than our needs were now developing and we had to build a factory.
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‘The Taskermatic’ Sound Effects Switching Unit.ģ0| 1969/1970: The Thames Euston 24-channel Neve’s.ģ1| 1969/1970: ‘The World at War’– The Thames TV 16-channel Film Dubbing Neve – ‘Serial A1‘.ģ2| 1969: Recorded Sound’s 20-channel 8 group Neve – ‘Serial 2056’.ģ2a| 1970: Recorded Sound’s Re-mix 16-channel 4 group Neve – ‘Serial A20’.ģ3| 1969: ‘Pathe News’ – The Pathe 12-channel Film Dubbing Neve – ‘Serial 2061’.ģ4| 1966 to 1973: Early Neve Compressors and Limiters.ģ5| 1969: Pye Records 12-channel ‘Reduction’ Neve – ‘Serial 2096’.ģ6| 1969: The Neve for the ‘Eurovision Song Contest’ in Madrid.ģ7| 1969: Neve 16-channel 4 output for S.E.D.M./Regson, Madrid.ģ8| 1969: Bob Auger’s 16 and 8-channel Neve‘ s.ġ969: Neve move into their new Melbourn factory.
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If you’re only interested in the ‘technical’, then use the highlighted section links in this list to jump there, and your browsers ‘back’ button to return to the list.ġ969: ‘Rupert changes the faders‘ – the arrival of Penny & Giles.Ģ9| 1969: ‘Free-grouping’ – The Thames TV 24-channel Neve’s with 12-channel sub-mixers – ‘Serial 2044‘.ġ970: ‘Medway’ – The first ‘digital code synchroniser‘ for sound dubbing.
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Installed in 1969, Thames TV’s Studio 1 Neve at Teddington was, in its full configuration the largest Neve built at that time, and is seen here with all 60 channels in use the main 24 channel Neve plus all 3 of the interlinked 12 channel subs desks.