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'''E & T Underwood''' manufactured cameras at their Brunswick Works, 130-2 Granville Street, Birmingham from the early 1890s. <br>In an 1896 advertisement they listed [[field camera]]s for ¼-plate, ½-plate and 1/1-plate with many names including:
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'''E & T Underwood''' manufactured cameras at their Brunswick Works, 130-2 Granville Street, Birmingham from the late 1880s. <br>In an 1896 advertisement they listed [[field camera]]s for ¼-plate, ½-plate and 1/1-plate with many names including:
  
 
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* [[Albion]]

Revision as of 03:29, 15 April 2013



E & T Underwood manufactured cameras at their Brunswick Works, 130-2 Granville Street, Birmingham from the late 1880s.
In an 1896 advertisement they listed field cameras for ¼-plate, ½-plate and 1/1-plate with many names including:

  • Albion
  • Club[1]
  • Field (“Best value in the world”)
  • Instanto[2]
  • President
  • Stereograph

There were also magazine cameras with the names:

  • Argosy
  • Automat
  • City
  • Idler
  • Sphynx

In 1905 they advertised a leather-covered ¼-plate folding camera named the “Foldette” which was also available as a Triple Extension Foldette.

British companies
Adams & Co. | Agilux | Aldis | APeM | Aptus | Artima | Barnet Ensign | Beard | Beck | Benetfink‎ | Billcliff | Boots | British Ferrotype | Butcher | Chapman | Cooke | Corfield | Coronet | Dallmeyer | Dekko | De Vere | Dixons | Dollond | Elliott | Gandolfi | Gnome | Griffiths | G. Hare | Houghtons | Houghton-Butcher | Hunter | Ilford | Jackson | Johnson | Kentmere | Kershaw-Soho | Kodak Ltd. | Lancaster | Lejeune and Perken | Lizars | London & Paris Optic & Clock Company | Marion | Marlow | Meagher | MPP | Neville | Newman & Guardia | Pearson and Denham | Perken, Son and Company | Perken, Son & Rayment | Photopia | Purma | Reid & Sigrist | Reynolds and Branson | Ross | Ross Ensign | Sanderson | Sands & Hunter | Shackman | Shew | Soho | Standard Cameras Ltd | Taylor-Hobson | Thornton-Pickard | Underwood | United | Watkins | Watson | Wynne's Infallible | Wray



Notes

  1. Full-plate Club field camera (it was also made in half-plate size) at Early Photography.
  2. Quarter-plate Instanto tailboard camera (the Instanto was made in sizes up to full plate) at Early Photography.