THE GUITARS OF JAMES ORMSTON BURNS
REFERENCE & RESOURCE PAGES:
SUPERSOUND (1958) - BURNS-WEILL (1959) - FENTON WEILL (1960-65)
ORMSTON BURNS (1960-1965) - AMPEG (1963-64) - BALDWIN (1965-69)
SHERGOLD WOODCRAFTS (1967-69) - ORMSTON (1968) - HAYMAN (1970-75)
BURNS UK (1973-77) - BURNS ACTUALIZERS (1979-82) - SHERGOLD (1975-92)
BURNS LONDON
TIMELINE - PUBLICITY - FACTORY
ARTIST - SONIC - VIBRA-ARTIST-DELUXE - BLACK BISON - VISTA-SONIC
BLACK BISON III - JAZZ - TR-2 - NU-SONIC - MARVIN - DOUBLE 6
BISON - VIBRASLIM - GB65 - GB66 - VIRGINIAN - BABY BISON
AMPLIFIERS - ACCESSORIES - PROTOTYPES
BURNS AMPLIFIERS
circa 1959/60 (or earlier?) Prototype Amp:
1961 Tele-Amp
Red Tone roller
1961 BURNS Tele-Amp
Black Tone roller
Included for Context, a rival UK company was offering all-transistor battery-powered guitar amplifiers as early as 1961:
Melody Maker 15th July 1961
1963 Burns Transistor Amplifier Catalogue
Crescendo September 1963
Crescendo December 1963
c.1964 Orbit Amps