Burns Guitar Factory Romford, Essex.

HoraceB

Back in the days when nylon strings were the young man's ladder to fame

skunkwerx

Ooh I wonder where that was? Tis where I live old Romford.

revsorg

"Surprising when you consider the noise they make that each and every guitar is scientifically tuned - just as if they were real musical instruments".

What a cunt.

Rabs

Ha..  They pay so much for their guitars that they have no money left for a haircut....

HarrySeven

revsorg said:

"Surprising when you consider the noise they make that each and every guitar is scientifically tuned - just as if they were real musical instruments".

What a cunt.

I remember watching this years ago and thinking exactly the same thing...

WezV

nice fretting hammer.  who needs specialist tools.


Also got to wonder about them  buffing an assembled guitar at the end.  Seems an easy way to have guitar parts flying across the room

Henrytwang

The Burns factory looked pretty basic even by  1960s standards. I remember that the quality could vary drastically from one instrument to the other . These days I  have a Chinese built Burns Marvin , Cobra and Bison all of which are built to a very high standard .

DrBob

I like that the spray booth amounts to little more than leaning the guitar up against a wall 

grayn

Love it.  Really hilarious.

M1ck

I believe Burns guitars were made just outside Newcastle upon Tyne in South Shields until the mid 70’s unless of course they had two factories

edit, bit more about burns here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_London

skunkwerx

M1ck said:

I believe Burns guitars were made just outside Newcastle upon Tyne in South Shields until the mid 70’s unless of course they had two factories

edit, bit more about burns here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_London

I’ve located the Romford one!! 

I’m gonna go down there maybe xmas eve or in my week off and recreate the photo of the building lol. 

M1ck

skunkwerx said:

I’ve located the Romford one!! 

I’m gonna go down there maybe xmas eve or in my week off and recreate the photo of the building lol. 

Lol good luck with that. TBH I thought Burns only had the South Shields factory before they were taken over and set up in London, good old Wikipedia eh? Glad I didn’t cite it as a fact. I remember the South Shields factory as I hung out in the area in my younger days, the factory is long gone now though and was demolished for housing.

bazxkr

skunkwerx said:

M1ck said:

I believe Burns guitars were made just outside Newcastle upon Tyne in South Shields until the mid 70’s unless of course they had two factories

edit, bit more about burns here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns_London

I’ve located the Romford one!! 

I’m gonna go down there maybe xmas eve or in my week off and recreate the photo of the building lol. 

@skunkwerx whereabouts in Romford was it ? I'm born & bred Romford (Collier Row)& still live/work here  and never heard of any guitar factory in Romford

skunkwerx

Well! I found this: 

Which is just down the road from me, actually next door to where Dv247 sits across the road from PMT. 

Just off North Street near the bus depot.

merlin

revsorg said:

"Surprising when you consider the noise they make that each and every guitar is scientifically tuned - just as if they were real musical instruments".

What a cunt.

The voice over artist was just doing his job. The real cunt is the person who wrote this fucking crap for British Pathé. British Pathetic more like. 



 

bazxkr

Thks @skunkwerx ; know the street well. DV247 practically next door. Was down that way alot when I was a kid in the 1960s and old Romford football club still existed but never noticed the place...amazing...great detective work

rossi

I lived in Barkingside  and often went to Romford.I had severel friends in Collier Row  .I always wanted a Burns until I played one .Its amazing just how much crap teenagers had to put up with in the late 50's -60,s snobbery ,vicars ,and ignorance  but then they didnt have teenagers until we came along and we didnt fight in any war to make sure we could become teenagers as a  side product of defeating HItler so I almost forgive them .

chromatuna

Also born and bred in Romford, managed to escape though! :-) Never knew of this and of course Shergold were only a couple of miles away. A veritable hub of mediocre guitar manufacturing ;-)

skunkwerx

bazxkr said:

Thks @skunkwerx ;; know the street well. DV247 practically next door. Was down that way alot when I was a kid in the 1960s and old Romford football club still existed but never noticed the place...amazing...great detective work

No worries  

My sister has a Mini, the newer one though, was going to recreate the photo some 60 years on! 

I guess that original was taken in the 60’s some point but I’m not sure.. I’m only 30 myself and don’t know the history of Burns etc. 

Switch625

2 miles of fine wire in each instrument?

WezV

Switch625 said:

2 miles of fine wire in each instrument?

Pickup bobbins