Vox-Adeon Radios Ltd.
Corner of Milligan and Murray Streets, Perth WA (1933 - 1934)
789 Hay Street Perth, WA (1934 –1939)
821 Hay Street, Perth WA (1939 –1957)

Vox-Adeon radios were manufactured and sold in Perth from the early 1930’s until 1939. The company later rented radios and later sold radios from other Australian Manufacturers.

Harry W. Denford manufactured and sold radios from his premises on the corner of Milligan and Murray Streets, Perth and branded them Vox-Adeon¹. From an advertisement in the “West Australian Wireless News” dated December 16, 1933 he advertises All-Wave Sets and superheterodyne short wave converters. The radios were guaranteed for five years¹.

Vox-Adeon Radios Ltd. was registered by H W Denford and A Spencer in February 1936².

In October 1936 the company rented radios for £ -/2/6 per week on a contract which included servicing³. It is not known when Vox-Adeon stopped manufacturing sets however they were selling sets from other Australian Manufacturers from September 1938⁴.

In 1957 Vox-Adeon Ltd. merged with Wyper Howard Ltd. to form to form Vox-Adeon Howard Ltd⁵.

Wyper Howard Ltd, previously Phonographs Ltd., was owned by William W Wyper and Sir Henry Rudolph (Harry) Howard and held the Australian agency for Edison and sold phonograms and Ediphone dictating machines. Howard successfully diversified into selling household electrical goods. With the introduction of television to Perth in 1959 the business boomed, by 1960 the company had twelve branches and dominated electrical retailing in Perth.

¹ West Australian wireless World, 16 Dec 1933, page 84
² The Daily News (WA) 28 Feb 1936, page 10
³ The Daily News (WA) 14 Oct 1936, page 13
⁴ The Daily News (WA) 14 Sep 1938, page 4
⁵ Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplementary Volume, (MUP), 2005