ABSTRACT
A British record issued from 1923, by the Parlophone Co., Ltd., of London. Its origin was Parlophon, used by the Carl Lindström workshop as a model name for one of its manufactured phonographs. After the Lindström business was taken over and Carl Lindström AG formed, the Beka Record business was absorbed. The 12-inch Beka Meister Records were renamed Parlophon in Germany, and the name spread throughout a number of European catalogs. In Britain, “Parlophone” had been registered to some other concern, so Lindström continued (from 1910) with the Beka Meister name for its 12-inch discs. That label continued in the U.K., with fresh imports from Germany, after World War I.
