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Rickenbacker International Corp.. Graded primary. Open the original.
Company's own history page = primary (rule 5). Read through a summarising fetch tool 2026-10-16; quotes as returned, not diffed against raw HTML. Returned: 'he continued instrument making until 1953 when he sold the company to F.C. Hall'; 'John Hall, along with his first wife Cindalee, became the sole owners of the company' (F.C. Hall retired September 1984); 'Before 1964 all Rickenbacker guitars had been made at the original Electro String factory in Los Angeles'; 'Hall moved it over a six month period to Santa Ana, in nearby Orange County'. HTML snapshot captured 2026-10-16 via Directus file import (archived_file); excerpts still to be copied from it (job 2).
7 facts on this site cite this source, across Rickenbacker. A quoted passage is the text the fact relies on.
| Fact | Years | Records | Passage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electro String Instrument Corporation (originally Ro-Pat-In Corporation; Adolph Rickenbacker and partners), Los Angeles owns Rickenbacker[1] | 1931–1953 | Rickenbacker, Electro String Instrument Corporation (originally Ro-Pat-In Corporation; Adolph Rickenbacker and partners), Los Angeles | No passage captured |
| F.C. Hall / Radio & Television Equipment Co. (Radio-Tel; distributor later renamed Rickenbacker, Inc.) owns Rickenbacker[1] | 1953–1984 | Rickenbacker, F.C. Hall / Radio & Television Equipment Co. (Radio-Tel; distributor later renamed Rickenbacker, Inc.) | No passage captured |
| Rickenbacker International Corp. owns Rickenbacker[1] | 1984–now | Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker International Corp. | No passage captured |
| Electro String Instrument Corporation (originally Ro-Pat-In Corporation; Adolph Rickenbacker and partners), Los Angeles ran Electro String / Rickenbacker original factory, Los Angeles (pre-1964)[1] | ?–1953 | Electro String / Rickenbacker original factory, Los Angeles (pre-1964), Electro String Instrument Corporation (originally Ro-Pat-In Corporation; Adolph Rickenbacker and partners), Los Angeles | No passage captured |
| F.C. Hall / Radio & Television Equipment Co. (Radio-Tel; distributor later renamed Rickenbacker, Inc.) ran Electro String / Rickenbacker original factory, Los Angeles (pre-1964)[1] | 1953–1964 | Electro String / Rickenbacker original factory, Los Angeles (pre-1964), F.C. Hall / Radio & Television Equipment Co. (Radio-Tel; distributor later renamed Rickenbacker, Inc.) | No passage captured |
| Rickenbacker USA (electric guitars and basses) built at Electro String / Rickenbacker original factory, Los Angeles (pre-1964) (full build)[1] | 1932–1964 | Rickenbacker, Electro String / Rickenbacker original factory, Los Angeles (pre-1964) | No passage captured |
| Rickenbacker USA (electric guitars and basses) built at Rickenbacker Santa Ana factory (full build)[1] | 1964–now | Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker Santa Ana factory | No passage captured |
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.
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