History
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1972 - Deliveries to the Orange Shop from Huddersfield and the Short's Garden Era
Mick Dines: “I can remember those early days before Cooper Mathias closed, Mat would drive down from the Cowcliffe factory in his new Ford Cortina 1600E with about five or six amps in the back. As soon as he arrived,...
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1972 - The Pics Only Graphics: Root of the Orange Sound
Adrian Emsley, Technical Director: “The circuit of the Pics Only is markedly different from that of the first Orange amplifiers. Those early Orange amps like the OR200 had the volume in front of the EQ circuitry, whereas the Pics Only...
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1971 - The Orange Graphics Explained
Cliff Cooper, Orange Founder and CEO “I got the idea for graphic symbols on our amplifiers when I noticed the new road signs which suddenly appeared in the late 1960s. Instead of words, the signs used graphic symbols. In 1971,...
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1971 - Getting Noticed
Cliff Cooper – Founder & CEO We originally had the idea of building the biggest speaker cabinet in the world so we built two guitar cabinets that were 24×12”. We also built a 10×15” bass cab. We used these cabinets at...
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1970 - Orange Shop us a Runaway Success
Dennis Sinnott. Head of Orange Publishing, St. Louis, Missouri, USA I heard a lot about Orange in the early 1970s when I was Head of Copyright at EMI. The first impression for me was seeing this amazing 100 watt Orange...
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1970 - Eric Clapton and Orange Shop Lefty Strat
In the late afternoon of September 17th 1970, Eric Clapton was walking around London’s West End and dropped by the Orange Shop. That evening he was going to a Sly and The Family Stone concert at the Lyceum on the...
