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• John Laxton, Production Director.
• Gerry Hunt, Sales Manager.
RIVER CllY WILL SELL DIRECT
River City opened their
new show rooms, offices and
factory in Birmingham
recently and introduced a
new name to the ranks of the
rideo game - the Marauder.
The range of games,
housed in attractive, robust
cabinets, include the name
. larauder in the titles, like
the Space Marauder shown
above.
competitive prices. We also
offer good finance facilities
and our team of salesmen
cover the whole country. We
are concentrating on upright
video games for the time
being but we are hoping to
produce table top models in
the near future."
•
Boards for the games
are supplied by Nichibutsu,
of Japan, and monitors by
Hitachi. Administration and
sales will be based at 84,
orth, Saltley,
Cato Street
Birmingham.
The
factory
at
Tamworth , where the
cabinets are produced, was
already fully equipped as a
woodwork shop when River
City took it over. It formerly
belonged to a firm producing
kitchen cabinets. "We had to
modify it to suit our own
needs, of course," said
Gerry Hunt. " But all the
essential machinery and
equipment was alrady
installed. It was ideal for our
purposes and means that all
the factory floor space at the
Birmingham headquarters
can be used for machine
assembly. "
Director in charge at
Tamworth is Steve Tector
and John Laxton is the
Production Director at
Birmingham.
Sales Manager of the
company is Gerry Hunt, well
l:nown in the trade and
ormerly Sales Director with
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In the beautifully
decorated
showroom,
complete with corner bar,
e new range of machines,
a embled in a modern
facton at the rear of the
• dfug. is creating a lot of
• terest in the trade. The
inets are manufactured
e comapany's own wood
op in Tamworth, 20
tes drive away.
·rnr Citv will supply
chin dire~t to the trade
no sub-distributors.
Ge~ Hunt said: " Because
are dealing direct we are
-e Hng
at
extremely
• Mrs. Sue Woods helps out at the showroom bar.
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