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Brand and Millen Electronics Ltd. (Astra); Long Branch (Toronto) Ontario

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Name: Brand and Millen Electronics Ltd. (Astra); Long Branch (Toronto) Ontario    (CDN)  
Abbreviation: brand-mi-a
Products: Model types
Summary:

Brand and Millen Ltd. in Toronto produced radios also for the brand Astra - most probably their own brand - but also for Inter-Provincial Cooperatives Ltd., for instance, model 751 and Tee-Nee, for instance, model 814. See also the logo B & M Electronics for the name.

A Canadian Government document says "Brand and Millen Limited (of 1946) declared bankrupt October 1951".

Founded: 1946
Closed: 1951
Production: 1946 - 1951
History:

In the journal "Radio Daily / Television Daily" in New York, we can read in Volume 57, No. 18 for Tuesday, October 23, 1951: "The end of the company October 1951: The purchase of the physical assets of Brand and Millen, Ltd., a radio and TV manufacturing firm at Long Branch, Ontario, was contracted by the Crosley Division of the Avco Manufacturing Corp." Avco organized a wholly-owned subsidiary, Crosley Radio & Television Ltd. 

Wikipedia: "Long Branch is a neighborhood and former municipality in the south-west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the south-western corner of the former Township (and later, City) of Etobicoke on the shore of Lake Ontario."

"The Village of Long Branch was a partially independent municipality from 1930 to 1967. Long Branch is located within a land grant from the government to Colonel Samuel Smith in the late 18th century. After Smith's death, a small portion of it was developed as a summer resort in the late 1800s."

This manufacturer was suggested by Vitor Oliveira.


Some models:
Country Year Name 1st Tube Notes
CDN  46/47 Astra DR-102U 12SA7  The Canadian Brand and Millen "Astra" model DR-102U is a 5-tube table radio. Thi... 
CDN  46/47 Astra DR-103 6SA7   
CDN  46/47 Astra DR-103 Deluxe 6SA7   
CDN  46/47 Astra DR-104 6SA7   
CDN  47/48 Astra DR-106 1A7GT   
CDN  47/48 Astra DR-107 12SA7   
CDN  49/50 Astra M-412 12BE6   
CDN  47/48 Astra DR-109 12SA7   
CDN  49/50 Astra P-511 1N5GT   
CDN  49/50 Astra M-513 12SA7   
CDN  49/50 M-514 12SA7   
CDN  49/50 Astra CA-610 6SA7   

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