The Victor Victrola  Our Victrolas Note: If you came to this
page looking for a Victor Victrola for sale please check the
listings in the internal horn category.  Eldridge Johnson, owner
of the Victor Talking Machine company, had probably been
tinkering with the idea of an internal horn cabinet machine from
as early as 1903. The rudiments of the idea had already been
suggested by products such as the German Hymnophon. In 1906
Johnson introduced his first offering, a machine designated as
the VTLA, probably a contraction of the word Victrola. The word
Victrola itself was another coinage of Johnson's, most likely an
amalgamation of the word 'Victor' and the 'ola' from 'pianola.'
Only 200 were sold the first year.  The cabinet work of the
first Victrolas was outsourced to companies such as Sheip and
Pooley, for it wasn't until 1907 that Victor began to do most of
its own woodworking in house. Victor's finest motor, the motor
used in its top of the line Victor VI, was fitted to the new
machine. The first model of