{"id":626,"date":"2023-12-09T23:29:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T23:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/?p=626"},"modified":"2023-12-09T23:34:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T23:34:19","slug":"going-to-the-carnival-mordaunt-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/2023\/12\/09\/going-to-the-carnival-mordaunt-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Going to the Carnival (Mordaunt Shorts)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Picked up a pair of these Mordaunt Short Carnival 2 bookshelf speakers from mid 1970s in perfect nick from local charity shop last week. Was going to team up with the Toshiba deck but they so nice I using as superior table-top speakers for pc and deck upstairs. Sound fabulous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here some of the advertising at the time. Mr Mordaunt and Mr Short were long time speaker engineers who branched out on own and built a state of art rural factory in countryside. Here a photo of the old Mordaunt Short HQ at Durford Mill outside Petersfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image.png 800w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-768x372.png 768w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/image-660x320.png 660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-1-660x660.jpg 660w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600-660x660.jpg 660w, https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/s-l1600.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up a pair of these Mordaunt Short Carnival 2 bookshelf speakers from mid 1970s in perfect nick from local charity shop last week. Was going to team up with the Toshiba deck but they so nice I using as superior table-top speakers for pc and deck upstairs. Sound fabulous. 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