Guitar Story A Brand Lineage Research Project

Company

F.C. Hall / Radio & Television Equipment Co. (Radio-Tel; distributor later renamed Rickenbacker, Inc.): brand owner behind Rickenbacker · Guitar Story

brand owner

F.C. Hall / Radio & Television Equipment Co. (Radio-Tel; distributor later renamed Rickenbacker, Inc.)

USA^{[1, 2]}

Every date on this page is unverified. It comes from an internal draft and has no source attached yet.

Plants it ran, and the brands built there

F.C. Hall / Radio & Television Equipment Co. (Radio-Tel; distributor later renamed Rickenbacker, Inc.) ran 1 plant on record. The brands below were built at those plants, whoever owned the name.

Plant	Ran it	Brands built there
Electro String / Rickenbacker original factory, Los Angeles (pre-1964) Los Angeles, California, USA^[1]	1953–1964^[1]	Rickenbacker Rickenbacker USA (electric guitars and basses) · 1932–1964^{[2, 1]}

Brands controlled

Years	Brand	How	Source
1953–1984	Rickenbacker	owns	unverified^{[1, 3, 4]}

Sources

Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.

1
The Story of Rickenbacker: Influencing Music Historygraded primary
2
Rickenbacker (Wikipedia)graded community
3
Rickenbacker part 2: 1950s onwardsgraded community
4
The Industry Interview: Rickenbacker CEO John Hallgraded secondary

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