Cinema sound system

[wdradio]

Hi
I have just unearthed a pair of horns that I picked up hen a cinema closed down about 35 years ago and I would like to identify them.From the research I have done they look like Altec but I cannot find any labels just some numbers which don't seem to mean anything. They weigh 40 pounds each and the horn is 10 port in a 4x2 plus 2 any help would be most welcome

[stephane RAME]

Westrex horn.

Stéphane

[Horn Fanatic]

Hi
I have just unearthed a pair of horns that I picked up hen a cinema closed down about 35 years ago and I would like to identify them.From the research I have done they look like Altec but I cannot find any labels just some numbers which don't seem to mean anything. They weigh 40 pounds each and the horn is 10 port in a 4x2 plus 2 any help would be most welcome

http://s240.photobucket.com/user/Fuzzylogic666/media/DSCF0208.jpg.html

Stéphane is correct.

[wdradio]

http://s240.photobucket.com/user/Fuzzylogic666/media/DSCF0208.jpg.html

Stéphane is correct.

Thank you for the info Do you know the model number? and approx. value ?

[Steve Schell]

Wdradio, your horns and drivers are fairly rare and quite pricey these days. These parts were produced by Westrex, sometimes identified as Western Electric London. As I have heard, Great Britain had restrictions in the postwar era, greatly limiting imported goods and encouraging domestic production. These drivers met the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences specs which were fashioned around the Altec Lansing 288. These Westrex pieces are functionally similar, but are actually much nicer built with expensive brass castings and such. The horns were ingenuously built with two cells in the top row to send a more narrow pattern up to the balcony. They are generally used for high quality home hi fi these days; hopefully you will be able to enjoy them this way.