NOMBREX
(INSTRUMENT DIVISION)
CAMPERDOWN TERRACE
EXMOUTH DEVON
THIS WAS THE SITE OF THE NOMBREX FACTORY IN CAMPERDOWN TERRACE.
NOW A BLOCK OF FLATS.
NOMBREX OCCUPIED THE GROUND FIRST AND SECOND FLOORS (photographed in 2004)
(INSTRUMENT DIVISION)
CAMPERDOWN TERRACE
EXMOUTH DEVON
THIS WAS THE SITE OF THE NOMBREX FACTORY IN CAMPERDOWN TERRACE.
NOW A BLOCK OF FLATS.
NOMBREX OCCUPIED THE GROUND FIRST AND SECOND FLOORS (photographed in 2004)
APRIL 7: 2006
SAW A FIRE AT THE OLD NOMBREX BUILDINGS ..
9 PEOPLE WERE RESCUED
FROM THE BURNING BUILDING IN THE EARLY HOURS
THIS SITE RELATES TO MY SMALL COLLECTION OF NOMBREX TEST EQUIPMENT HERE IN EXMOUTH DEVON.
MY YOUTH WAS LARGELY SPENT FINGERING RADIO MAGAZINES AND THE OFFERINGS FROM NOMBREX WERE
ALWAYS TOP
OF MY WISH LIST WHILE BEING WELL OUT OF MY FINANCIAL REACH..
MY
FIRST
SIGNAL GENERATOR WAS A GREEN GREYSHAW INSTEAD OF THE MODEL 29 I
REALLY WANTED. :-(
RECENTLY I WAS
ABLE TO AQUIRE A VERY RARE EXAMPLE OF CROSSO AN EARLY ELECTRONIC
GAME.
WHICH BROUGHT TO
LIGHT NOMBREX,S PREVIOUS EXISTENCE AND APPARENT BIRTH
IN
BURNHAM ON SEA
SOMERSET.
note received from geoffrey cousins :...nombrex traded from dunstan road estate burnham-on-sea before moving to exmouth .
THE STRANGE BLOW MOULDED PLASTIC CASE OF THIS EARLY 60,S TOY HELPS TO EXPLAIN THE STRANGE NOMBREX OFF
SHOOT COMPANY WHICH SAW IT PRODUCING PLASTIC SLIDE RULES AND
BIZARRELY FIBERGLASS FRONT ENDS FOR THE OLD
FORD POPULAR CAR
IT SEEMS THAT THE FORMATION OF THE COMPANY WAS BY TWO MEN EACH WITH DIFFERING TALENTS IE
PLASTIC AND ELECTRONICS, WAS THE REASON FOR THE SEEMINGLY UNRELATED NOMBREX PRODUCTS..
NOMBREX PRODUCED AN INNOVATIVE RANGE OF INCREDIBLY SMALL TRANSISTORISED TEST EQUIPMENT IN EXMOUTH
BETWEEN 1963 AND 1972..THEIR SMALL FACTORY WAS IN A CONVERTED HOUSE IN CAMPERDOWN TERRACE
NEAR THE EXMOUTH DOCKS.
THE PICTURES SHOW THE FACTORY AND THE LARGER BUILDING TO THE RIGHT
WHERE A SEPARATE COMPANY
PRODUCED THE PAINTED STEEL CASES..THIS PROBABLY EXPLAINS WHY THE NOMBREX RANGES ALWAYS SEEMED
SUSCEPTIBLE TO RUSTING CASES..THE FACTORY IS NEAR THE DOCKS IN EXMOUTH ABOUT 100YARDS FROM THE SEA..!!
THERE WERE SEVERAL MODELS IN THE NOMBREX INSTRUMENT
RANGE.
THE NOMBREX FACTORY ALSO PRODUCED SIGNAL GENERATORS FOR
NORDMENDE AND WESTECHNO.
NOMBREX PRODUCED THESE PETITE LITTLE INSTRUMENTS.... TOY SIZE…
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