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Thanks NY. Wow! someone's been splashing the cash! The air grills adjacent are more impressive. I mentioned the auction was this Wednesday, viewing Tuesday. I didn't check if it was this week, I'm not interested myself, but it's an online auction, you have to register, £2 starting bid, it's a bit like eBay. Anyone interested in perhaps their ancestors who worked there in 1900, the photo's look nice and sharp. I looked around for a map of the workshop but couldn't find anything suitable, I would regularly walk down MPS to the famous R.E.P. on Saturdays when at school (radio experimental products) to look at all the ex-army junk! I mean fascinating electrical gismos I couldn't afford. It's the first time I saw a transistor (red spot) in their window, it was of course all thermionic valves in radios up until then. But again cannot recall the Standard building, just the Greyhound pub on that side.

Shops of yore (Click to see this topic in full)
Hi Davey There was a discussion of REP earlier in the Shops of Yore thread Radio Experimental Products

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As a kid I had a whim for a Crystal set Radio which I bought in about 1960 from a shop called REP in Paynes Lane. Later on I decided to build a Radio from scratch and built a single-valve kit from the same shop. REP stood for Radio Experimental Products and their products were branded Repanco. Amazingly enough, they're still going as Repanco-Bartlett, and make custom tranformers and coils. If you follow the link, the illustration on the website is my one-valve radio. Amazed ! http://www.repancobartlett.co.uk/index.html I also recall a Barton Brothers shop in City arcade which sold electronic stuff. My family had an Ironmongers on Ball Hill called Trinder and Lawrence.

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I remember it as moving to the temporary shops in the High Street circa 1969 when Much Park Street was being demolished. Bought a TV aerial from there. Was eventually taken over by Tandy which became Maplins.

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I recall there being two such radio component shops. There was Electronic Services down Gosford Street; when it was demolished to make way for the ring road, it moved to City Arcade. It was run by two brothers named Barton, one of whom had a son at KHVIII. The other shop was in Much Park Street. It was called REP (Radio Experimental Products). I guess it just went out of business.

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Hello Dutchman, I remember REP as being in Much Park St, and as you said next to the gate house at the far end, I think it was just along from the Dolls house museum? But you seem to be on the ball with locations so maybe I have it all wrong. I do know that REP (Radio Experimental Products) moved from Much Park St to the High Street on the same side as the Council House. From the original location I used to buy Clive Sinclair books on electronic experiments etc, and I bought my first transistors from there. The Barton brothers first shop was in Ford St at the side of the Pool Meadow Bus Station, they moved to the City Arcade next to the Thistle Pub. They were called City Electronics. when it moved it was run by only one of the brothers, they had a fall out as far as I remember? As for the O'Brien factory, they made coils etc, I cannot remember the range I used at the time only that they were made in bright colours, the name of the factory was called Repanco, again, from memory they were not associated with REP. But as per usual I may have got it all wrong, but that's how I remember it. Many hours spent in the search of radio bits. Colin.