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Curry's began
in Leicester in 1888 as a bicycle shop and, in
the cycling boom of the 1890s, manufactured and
sold bicycles. When its founder, Henry Curry,
retired in 1910, his sons carried on the
business - a partnership formed in 1897 as H
Curry & Sons - and expanded it greatly. It
ceased to manufacture, but developed into a
nationwide chain of shops selling cycles,
radios, gramophones, baby carriages, toys, and
sporting goods, and became a public company in
1927. The second and third generations of the
Curry family continued to manage it until a
takeover by Dixons in 1984. By that time the
company had ceased to deal in cycles and
sporting goods, but had become one of the
leading retailers of domestic electric
appliances of all kinds. |
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Henry Curry |
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| A Curry shop in 1903 |
A Curry shop in the
thirties |
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Curry's sold
radios by other established manufacturers. In 1925 it
started retailing cheap "Westminster" or "Westminster
Radio" branded receivers. This enabled Curry's to keep
some of the manufacturing profit that would otherwise
have gone to the real manufacturer. Many of these radios
were made by Plessey. The brand name "Curry's" still
exists; the company is owned by
DSGi, that also owns Dixons and PCWorld. |
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