British Brunswick Ltd.
15/17 and 29. Cavendish Place, London SW9 (1926 - 1929)

Warner Brunswick Ltd.
1-3, Brixton Rd., London SW9 (1930-1932)

Brunswick Ltd. (Branch of the Decca Record Co., Ltd.)
1-3, Brixton Rd., London SW9 (1933

Brands: Brunswick, Panatrope
 

British Brunswick Ltd. manufactured gramophone records, musical instruments, and wireless accessories in London from 1926 until 1929.

Warner Brunswick, Ltd. a US subsidiary of Warner Bros. took over the manufacture of the Brunswick brand in Great Britain in 1930.

In 1932 Brunswick Ltd. (a Branch of the Decca Record Co., Ltd.). took over the manufacture of the brands in Great Britain.

Brunswick brand radio products were manufactured by Decca until the late 1930s.

The British Brunswick Ltd. was formed, with a share capital of £120,000 made up of 100,000 £1 preference shares and 200,000 ordinary 1s shares.
The directors included pioneer recording engineer William Sinkler Darby and his father-in-law businessman George Roberts. At first, the catalogue consisted of American-derived records, supplemented from 1927 with British recordings; British Brunswick was also a licensee of the German Polydor label and had access to the American Brunswick and Vocalion catalogues. Also, in 1927 the American parent introduced the Panatrope, the first all-electric radiogram, which went on sale in Britain the following year. [1]

Then in October 1929 the company British Brunswick, Ltd., was under a compulsory winding-up order.
The report from Mr. E. T. A. Phillips, Official Receiver, has now been issued to the creditors and contributors as detailed below.

The accounts show total liabilities of £172,906 (unsecured £125,769), assets, £31,006, and a deficiency of £344,700 with regard to contributories, the issued capital of £218,931 consisting of 1,000,000 ordinary shares of is. each and 168,931 preference shares of £1 each.

The company was incorporated as a private company on September 26, 1926, and was converted into a public company a year later.

In October 1927, the company obtained control of Cliftophone, Ltd., which manufactured gramophones, by purchasing certain of its shares of a £12,000 debenture.

 In April 1928, the Duophone & Unbreakable Record Co., Ltd., entered into an agreement with a view to close collaboration between them and the Brunswick Company, and the pooling of facilities of manufacture and sale, and for the purchase of certain of the company's plant. etc., by the Duophone Company.

On April 27th, 1928, the directors resolved to raise £75,000 by the issue of 750, 7½ % debentures, of £100 each. The bonds were issued at par to the Duophone Co. in May and December 1928, for cash. On September nth, 1929, Mr. E. S. Howard, C.A., was appointed receiver and manager on behalf of the debenture holders. He has carried on the business and has realised the bulk of the assets.

The failure of the company is attributed to its having commenced business on an ambitious scale with insufficient capital, to continual pressure by claimants and creditors, and the existence of exceedingly onerous royalty contracts. The company was continually harassed in their relations with the American company (Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.) whose high rate of royalties rendered it difficult to make profits except by colossal production; to the investments of the company's funds in subsidiary and other companies, thereby diverting money which could have been more usefully employed for the company itself; and to the despatch to factors of large quantities of unordered goods, for which they refused to accept responsibility, and which resulted in substantial losses. [2]

With the demise of British Brunswick, Ltd., the Hollywood film-maker Warner Bros. which had purchased the US Brunswick Radio Corp. revived the Brunswick label in the U.K.

Warner Brunswick, Ltd., was formed with £40,000 capital on 11 Oct 1930, with the registered trademark of Brunswick acquired for the U.K. The new firm took over the Panatrope trademark as well and serviced those machines.

 A factory was at Shepherds Bush, London, Chappell Piano Co., Ltd. of Bond St. was contracted to be the first distributor of Brunswick discs, all of them by American Brunswick artists but pressed in London. In December 1930 the first catalogue of those discs appeared, offering 10-inch records at three shillings each.

Warner Brunswick Ltd. was acquired by the Decca Record Company in 1932 and Harvey F. Schwarz, B.Sc., was made chief engineer of Brunswick Ltd. on its formation.

After the 1934 founding of the US subsidiary Decca Records, Inc., Brunswick became the UK and European outlet for the US Decca label, a role it continued until late 1967.
When Decca Radio and Television Ltd. was formed in 1938 Mr. Schwarz became technical director. [3]

Decca continued in the recording, radio, television, communications, and navigation business however the Brunswick radio brand came to an end in Great Britain in the late 1930s. Brunswick records, both 10-inch & 12-inch appeared in Britain until 1949.

The Brunswick brand continued in the USA after WW2 with (Brunswick) Radio & Television, Inc. 

[1] Recording History: The British Record Industry, 1888–1931, Peter Martland.
[2] Wireless & Gramophone Trader Aug 23, 1930, Page 206.
[3] Wireless World Oct 1969, Page 494.