Cory-Wright & Salmon Ltd.
61 Molesworth Street, Wellington.

Brand: Stella

New Zealand Stella Radio

• Manufactured by Radio Corporation of New Zealand Ltd.
• Distributed by Cory-Wright & Salmon Ltd. from 1934 to 1937
• Possible manufacturer in 1938 and 1939 was Collier and Beale, but confirmation is needed.

British Stella Brand

• Stella Products, Ltd. manufactured loudspeakers in the 1920s
• Stella Radio & Television Company Ltd. marketed radios from 1951 until 1966.

No Connection Found

Despite sharing the same brand name, there appears to be no connection between the New Zealand Stella radios and the British Stella brand.

Silston Cory-Wright (1888 – 1976) and Cedric Whitby Salmon (1892 – 1979), electrical engineers, incorporated Cory-Wright & Salmon Ltd. on July 29, 1933. [1]

The business was built upon the partners' connections with major British firms, such as Vickers and English Electric, but it also represented over 50 other large international engineering companies. The company supplied a wide variety of engineering equipment, with a particular focus on railways. Examples included: electrical components for the Lyttelton-Christchurch line (1928), electric train units for the Wellington-Johnsonville line (1938), and electric locomotives for the main trunk line beginning with Wellington-Paekakariki (1939–40). [2]

The company also distributed Stella brand radios from 1934 to 1937.[3]

In February 1938, they registered Stella Radio Ltd. in Wellington as dealers in radio equipment.[4]

Stella radios were advertised until 1939, and it is unclear who manufactured them.

The company was dissolved in November 1991.

[1] opencorporates.com-companies/nz/2623.
[2] wikipedia.org/wiki/Silston, Cory-Wright, accessed Nov 2021.
[3] Evening Post 20 Oct 1934, Page 3.
[4] Evening Post 18 Feb 1938, Page 12.