primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . july 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message tannoy ltd is a british manufacturer of loudspeakers and public address pa systems . the company was founded by guy fountain in london england as tulsemere manufacturing company in 1926 and moved to coatbridge scotland in the 1970s . in 2015 tannoy was accquired by music group company along with tc group which itself had acquired tannoy in 2002 . later on it was confirmed that the coatbridge facility would be closed and all related activities would be relocated to manchester england . 1 actor cyril ritchard and three young women listen to the tannoy public address system in 1948 . the name tannoy is a syllabic abbreviation of tantalum alloy which was the material used in a type of electrolytic rectifier developed by the company . the brand was trademarked by 10 march 1932 on which date the tulsemere manufacturing company formally registered as guy r. fountain limited . it became a household name as a result of supplying pa systems to the armed forces during world war ii and to butlins and pontins holiday camps after the war . identification being such because the company logo name was prominently shown on the speaker grills . this usage is current as of mid 2010 . 2 3 tannoy is famous for its dual concentric speaker design which places the tweeter behind the centre of the medium or bass driver . dual concentric is a trademark although tannoy is not the only speaker manufacturer to design coaxial speakers . tannoy s image is particularly linked to studio monitors on the one hand and its prestige range of home speakers on the other . prestige speakers use dual concentric cone speakers and are easily recognisable by their vintage design . the term tannoy is often used generically in colloquial english throughout the british commonwealth to mean any public address system or even as a verb to tannoy particularly those used for announcements in public places ; 4 although the word is a registered trademark it has become a genericised trademark . the company s intellectual property department keeps a close eye on the media . to preserve its trademark it often writes to publications that use its trade name without a capital letter or as a generic term for a pa system . contents 1 references 2 products 3 further reading 4 external links references edit http www.whathifi.com news tannoy announces possible closure its scotland loudspeaker plant goldtrail collapse leaves britons in greece and turkey . bbc news . 17 july 2010 . bbc world service broadcast 27 february 2010 referring to the use of tannoys in warning seaside dwellers to evacuate to higher ground due to a possible tsunami caused by the chilean earthquake of that day heard on wnyc fm longman dictionary of current english online 14 march 2012 http www.ldoceonline.com dictionary tannoy missing or empty title help ; contribution ignored help products edit this section needs expansion with more products need to be added . you can help by adding to it . january 2015 home and studio speakers plus series 70anniversary series surrey series gold series definition series eclipse series mercury series prestige series classic monitor k3838 monitor kit similar to classic monitor super red monitor k3808 monitor kit similar to super red monitor little red sixes series profile series precision series revolution series dimension series eyris series cabinets lancaster system dmt pa systems further reading edit alderton julian 2004 . the tannoy story . edward gaskell . isbn 1 898546 58 4 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to tannoy . tannoy worldwide homepage tannoy monitor gold website tannoy dual concentric website this sound technology article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tannoy & oldid 741731179 categories loudspeaker manufacturerscompanies established in 1926audio equipment manufacturersmanufacturing companies of britainbritish brandssound technology stubshidden categories pages with citations lacking titlescs1 errors chapter ignoredpages with citations having bare urlsarticles lacking reliable references from july 2009all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles to be expanded from january 2015all articles to be expandedarticles using small message boxescommons category with local link same as on wikidataall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutsch svenska edit links this page was last modified on 29 september 2016 at 09 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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