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Control - Direct

8 channel dimmer board  (ADB) 

Arc Control Board  (Strand) 

Bench Type Stage Switchboard  (Frank Adam Electric Co) 

Bracket Handle  (Furse Theatre Products) 

Bracket Handle  (Strand) 

Combined Switch & Dimmer Board  (Strand) 

Control Desk  (Digby) 
More details to follow

Controlite  (Trumbull Electric Mfg Co.)   (1927)

Dead Front Board  (Strand)   (1924)

DT14 Slider Dimmer  (Furse Theatre Products)   (1955)

Grand Master  (Major) 

Grand Master Board  (Strand)   (1931)

H.A.Car Portable Dimmerboard  (Strand) 

Hysterset Electronic Control  (Ward Leonard)   (1945)

Interlocking Sunset Dimmer Board  (Strand) 
6 way

Junior 8  (Strand)   (1963)

8 channels and 4 dimmers

Junior Interlock Dimmerboard  (Strand) 
J1 Type

Junior Slider Switchboard / Junior H A Slider Dimmerboard  (Strand)   (1950)

Junior Sunset Flexible Dimmerboards  (Strand) 
JS Type

Miniseel  (Stage Electrical Equipment Ltd)   (1950?)

Multi Preset Switchboard  (Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company)   (1925)

Non-Interlocking Slider Dimmer / Switchboard  (Strand) 
Available as a 6 way dimmer board or a larger switchboard.

Peristyle Light Board  (Frank Adam Electric Co)   (1933 - 1987)
Custom built for the Peristyle Concert Hall at the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Portable Dimmerboard (PS.8 Type)  (Strand)   (1957 - )
8 ways, either 500/1000 or 1000/2000 watt, variable load

Portable Interlocking Dimmer Board  (Strand)   (1930 - 1957)
6 way or 12 way

Portable Teak Dimmer Board  (Strand)   (1925 - 1957)
6 way or 12 way. Voltage Dimmers of any wattage from 100 to 1000.

Pre-set Selective Theatre Control  (Hub Electric Company)   (1920s)

Q-Master  (Century)   (1969)
Dimmers and integral preset controllers

Rotary Dimmer  (Digby) 

Senior Sunset  (Strand) 

Slider Dimmers (A.C. only)  (Strand)   (1961?)

Stage Switchboard  (Frank Adam Electric Co) 

TEN/20 Lighting Control  (Strand)   (1968)
10 dimmers into 20 control channels. 

Three or Four Colour Switchboard  (Strand) 

TuR  (VEM Vereinigter Elektromaschinenbau der DDR)   (1970s)

Unitrol  (Hub Electric Company)   (1965)

Versa Dim Master Stage Switchboard  (Gaumont British) 
9 way dimmer control with 18 circuits, or 12 way dimmer control with 24 circuits. 
Available in other configurations. 

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