Assembly of Marshall Amps.
Each order for a Marshall amp took nearly a full week to build back in 1962, with the manufacturing — initially done in Jim Marshall’s shed — latterly taking place in the store itself after it was refitted with a small workshop.
But by March 1963, the product had become successful enough that Marshall was able to open a second store across the street at 93 Uxbridge Road. By 1964, demand was exceeding supply, and so a dedicated factory was opened on Silverdale Road in Hayes which turned out twenty amplifiers a week.
The Sound of Success’ 1967 Marshall catalogue. Advertisement for the famous Marshall stacks. A 1966 advertisement from Music Maker magazine.
The business continued to expand thereafter. Marshall outgrew the shops in Hanwell and the factory in Hayes, so Jim eventually moved the latter to Bletchley, Milton Keynes, in 1967. The town has remained the home of Marshall ever since – the site of 55 years worth of production and innovation, spanning everything from the classic JMP and JCM series’ to the Studio series at present.
If your amp says 'made in the UK' on the back, it came from here.
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