Hi all:

I am trying to track down the earliest examples of James B. Lansing's work for our website. These were radio speakers made in Salt Lake City in 1926-27. My hope is to make contact with someone that has a radio with these speakers and hopefully get photographs to add to our site.

The details of Jim Lansing's start in the radio speaker business is detailed here:

http://www.audioheritage.org/html/perspectives/peterson.htm

We have come across examples of Lansing speakers made in Los Angeles after 1927, but none from Salt Lake City. Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated.

Don,

You mention a speaker manufacturing plant in Salt Lake City. Is there any connection with this location and the now defunct brand of speakers known as Utah?

I remember seeing Utah drivers in the Allied Radio catalogue when I was a kid.

Rob

There is no connection between the Utah brand and Lansing's Salt Lake City business. There may have been a connection to the Baldwin Radio Company, which dispite its name, was primarily in the headphone and loudspeaker business. You can read about them here:

http://historytogo.utah.gov/hmruin.html

I have never been able to find anything substantive about the Utah loudspeaker company on the net. There is one obscure reference that indicates they were in business by the 1920's. I believe that by the 50's, they had a Chicago address. They seem to have dissapeared in the 60's.