The First Shop
Around this time, Jennings had started repairing accordions and trading in second hand musical instruments. In 1946, Jennings set up his first shop in Dartford Kent and began importing accordions. He also started inventing new products, the first being the Univox Electronic organ, which was a huge success, and became the springboard from which he would build his instrument-manufacturing empire.
Read more about this topic: Thomas Walter Jennings
Famous quotes containing the words the first and/or shop:
“Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,—the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead. The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A good customer should not change his shop, nor a good shop change its customers.”
—Chinese proverb.