![]() ![]() Worked well but equipment footprint was a bit on the chunky size. I remember buying several integrated stereo amplifiers and digital LED readout FM tuners at great prices for some friends plus I kept one set for several years. Still have several working clocks and calculators. ![]() I remember buying a number of their credit card size 4 function calculators at about $2 each and several of their digital green readout desk alarm clocks for $4 each. I suspect most were overstocks, returned/repaired products, recently discontinued, damaged, etc. The Edison location had several warehouse sales through the 90's where lots of their products could be bought at a fraction of their normal selling prices. Lloyd's was also known as Lloyd's Electronics International Corp. There seems to be a hint of Marantz and Superscope design style with this product line. They also produced an upscale line of hi-fi stereo equipment and component music systems under the name "Monteverdi" and "Monteverdi Audio" from the late 70's through the 80's. S., their locations were listed as 180 Raritan Center Parkway, Edison, NJ 088 Kona Drive, Compton, CA 90220. I also have several Lloyd's Electronics, Inc. These were the first successful use of LCDs in calculators - See the Lloyd's Accumatic 100 and the Rapid Data Rapidman LC1208. ![]() In mid-1972 Rockwell started to ship LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) calculators to Lloyds, Sears Roebuck and Rapid Data, which were sold under their names. A few of these were manufactured by Rockwell though most were sourced from Asia. also had a consumer electronics subsidiary called Lloyd's Electronics which sold a wide range of models of its Accumatic calculators. RIP:Curt Reed, Alan Douglas, "oldradiospook", & "Bigbandsman" Most of their electronics seemed to be made in Japan or Taiwan, too. I'm not convinced there's a Lloyd's product from that far back, but you never know! There are question marks after the date, which means they aren't sure. I just checked that site, and there is a radio on there from 1958. ![]() When they ended, I don't have a clue.except that you eluded to seeing a product of theirs on radiomuseum from the 1990's. By just looking on eBay all these years, I can say with somewhat good accuracy that they started producing stuff in the early 1960's. Wish I could tell you the history of the company. But most radios and recorders by Lloyd's were pretty bad. I've seen a few half-way decent radios of theirs that were probably made by another company. That recorder made the worst mono cassette recordings, mostly because of the terrible filtering of the HUM! I still have some of those recordings, and they are almost unlistenable. I had to use the supplied wall wart power supply for that thing, because I was too young to have money to buy batteries for it. My first portable cassette recorder was made by them (or for them), around 1973. So can anybody tell me about the history of the company ? Did they make or rebrand anything with tubes? When did they go under? Radio Museum lists a CD boombox they put out in 1990.Was this some of their last products?īoy, I remember Lloyd's very well. I seem to recall seeing Lloyd's portable phonos back in the day.They were sort of like low budget clones of the GE Wildcat,but mostly I saw their transistor radios,and solid state table top radios,from the 60s,and 70s,that still turn up at thrift stores to this day.They probably are best known for their cheap transistor pocket radios no one wants to buy. It was $10.00 if somebody wanted to haul it away. So I was at the Goodwill today,and I saw my first console,since I started going back there last year.This was one of the cheapest solid state jobs I had ever seen.It was obviously pressed particle board,and it had an 8-track player, the cheapest,literally no-name changer,I had ever seen,and a a radio.The whole thing screamed low end,bottom of the market.Everything but the radio was marked Taiwan (!),and that had a tiny little Lloyd's nameplate. ![]()
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