Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]David Prakel wrote: > > on 8/11/2001 11:33 pm, Jay Burleson at Leica Users digest wrote: > > > In England, a "Tannoy" is the generic name for a loudspeaker. > > No, sorry, not right. "Tannoy" is a generic term for public address system. > I used to write the manuals for their hi-fi loudspeaker range and know the > company and its history quite well. They used to get very pissy if you use > tannoy rather than Tannoy (much as Hoover get pissy about the use of > hoover). Protection of trade mark legalities. > > One totally off-topic piece of Tannoy info was that they used to produce a > 'shouting helmet' for the army. Two horn loudspeakers rapped around an army > helmet with a built in microphone for propaganda and psi-warfare use. > ><Snip> Those 'shouting helmet's would be handy for people who are too embarrassed to wear hearing aids. They could just pass them out tho their friends.... like stereo viewers. but could get awkward at the movies. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html