DRUM

Badge timeline, grouped into five main eras by company. Start and end dates are unique to badges but give or take a year, any changes broadly line up with changes in music styles and manufacturing techniques... Popular music, drumming and the drum industry were in their infancy and the main companies hadn't fully formed. Shells were single ply, hoops single flanged with clips, and generic tube lugs and throw-offs were typical, all nickel plated. Finishes were paint or varnish. Samuel Barnett made John Grey drums and Dallas switched from Premier to A F Matthews in 1925. Hawkes & Son started the Ajax brand in 1927, and Rose Morris outsources manufacturing to James Cowlin then Furzer & Cutts... The main manufacturers began to crystallise in the mid-thirties. Laminated wood was used for shells, clips disappeared and Art Deco style, self-aligning lugs were designed in-house to distinguish brands. Double-flanged hoops appeared briefly but were soon succeeded by die-cast. Upper snares were..