Door Chime
History - Other Brands
Below is list of chime
makers that I have found, with whatever scant info I have.
Alhambra
Located in Alhambra CA, Greater LosAngeles
American Art Metal Works
San Francisco, CA
Carlton Corporation
Manchester, Connecticut
Product label reads: Carltone Door Chimes & Signals
Deagan Chimes
Chicago, Illinois
Venerable maker of all sorts of percussion bell insturuments from xylophones and marimbas to grand tower chimes. Dabled in doorbells which are extermely rare.
Dura Steel Products Co.
2421 E Eighth Street
Los Angeles, CA
Faraday / Stanley & Patterson
Faraday was a well known maker of alarm bells and dabbled in musical chimes.
It seems that Stanley & Patterson marketed a broad catalog of electical items and added their mark to many products including Faraday products.
Harmony House
Sears house brand for various OEM chimes, often Rittenhouse
Harmony Manufacturing Company
730 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles
Ironcore Transformers Pty, LTD.
Higson Lane
Melbourne, Australia
Maker of doorbells under the brandname Fiesta
Liberty
Mell-O-Chime & Signal Corp
119 S Jefferson Street
Chicago 6 Illinois
Mello-Chime & Signal
New York, New York
Metro-Chime & Signal Co., Inc.
New York, N.Y
Presto Electric Company
Union City, NJ
Pryne & Company, Inc
Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York
Chimes made under the Pryanco brand. Better known as a supplier
of exhaust fans. Absorbed by Rittenhouse in 1957
Schwarze Electric Company
Adrian, Michigan
Known as a supplier of automotive accessories, especially electric
horns and wipers. References found from the 1920's thru WW2 era.
Softone
Possibly a sub brand or perhaps a licensee of Rittenhouse for low
cost chimes
Tele-tone
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