SOLD! - 1969 London City DEA100 Super Lead plexi grey series

"The Vintage Dutch MARSHALL KILLER!!!"
The legendary Johan Segeborn mentions the vintage Dutch amps in one of his videos (www DOT youtube DOT com/watch?v=4PrdrkMuTPI) : "I'm playing a completely amazing 1976 Super City DEA200 through a a 1968 Marshall 1982A cab using a 1973 Strat and a 2008 Les Paul R9 and Thomas Little play's a Precision bass and a Strat. These amps are an insane bang for the buck."
 
For sale is a very early -pre serial- series 1969 London City DEA100 MK IV Super Lead head with the extremely rare LONDON CITY Plexi logo!!
 
It is a 100WATT CLASS A pre-turretboard classic point-to-point handwired amp with a MASSIVE SOUND!!!! Has the original handwired transformators, handwired Choke, grey tolex, 
gold/white piping, plexi logo with all letters still on there, plexi frontpanel, plexi backpanel, mostly original electronics, pots, 4 x old stock National Electronic EL34 power tubes made in Germany, 3 x old stock PM ECC83 preamp tubes as used in 70's Marshall amps, original handle etc. Knobs are replaced as are a few nuts and bolts.
 
The London City brand was an early 1969 creation of Muziekhandel De Waal from the Bilderdijkstraat in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In the 60's and 70's De Waal was the distributor for Europe of Marshall, VOX and WEM amplifiers. Via Dolf Geldof, base player in Group 1850, mr Jan de Waal came in contact with mr Vic van der Kuij, who was building speakers, amps columns for Haproko. Vic could build whatever he wanted but financing these builds was a problem. In comes De Waal and London City was born. 
 
Piet van Schagen, also known as Peter Johanzen in the 60's, was the electro technical specialist that was asked by De Waal to check out these new and hot Marshall Plexi amplifiers everybody was talking about. Within weeks, Piet had build them a massive sounding clone of a Marshall Plexi. The first clones were based on a Marshall Plexi combined with a Philips EL34 amp design. 
Piet then started building the VERY FIRST 48 London City amps with the now hyper rare plastic logo. These were all built at his home by himself, the lady of the house and their kids, all on the kitchentable!!!
 
This all happened mid 1969 on instructions of Vic in the Vasco da Gamastraat 12hs in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. They amps were finalized and checked by Peter Johanzen on the Ookmeerweg 230 in Amsterdam. Nico van Gijn was the single highest ranking "manager" at London City and Raymond de Waal was the boss at De Waal Holdings. All London City products were "Made in Holland" and all original amps and cabinets were completely build by hand.
 
In general there are 4 different types during the London City Years:
 
"BLACK" series - 1969 - 100 watt DEA100 Mark IV amp with 4xEL34, black tolex, gold piping, plexi logo, plexi front, plexi back. This is the very first London City amp. Preamp is based upon a Philips design and the power section based on the legendary Marshall Superbass (hence the "Super Amplifier" designation on the backpanel). Frontpanel has a small round on/off pilot light.
 
"GREY" series - late '69 to early 70's - DEA50 50watt 2xEL34 and DEA100 100watt 4xEL34, grey tolex, gold piping. 3 versions were made:
- plexi logo, plexi front, plexi back, small round on/off pilot light
- aluminium logo, plexi front, plexi back, small square on/off pilot light
- aluminium logo, aluminium front, aluminium back, small square on/off pilot light
 
"TURQUISE/BLUE" series - early 70's to late 70's - Several different models were made like a DEA70 Mark V, DEA130 Mark V, DEA250 250watt 8xEL34, PA Slave, combo 1 x 12 amp, reverb Fifty, reverb Hundred 100 watt, 4xEL34, Fender Twin-type) and the Super Twin reverb-200 with 2x15-inch speakers. 
 
"NEO-BLACK" series - late 70's to early 80's - Models as above with black tolex plus a a hole bunch of other speakers, amps, reverbs, columns etc etc.