For the contractor based in San Mateo, California, see Webcor Builders

Webcor Builders

Webcor Builders is a commercial construction contractor with headquarters in San Francisco, California. The firm also has regional offices in San Mateo, California, Alameda, California, Los Angeles, and San Diego, and is among the largest builders in California with clients including Starwood...

The Webster Chicago Corporation was a maker of electronic equipment in Chicago Illinois. The product line included record changer

Record changer

A record changer or autochanger is a device that plays multiple gramophone records in sequence without user intervention. Record changers first appeared in the late 1920s, and were common until the 1980s.-History:...

s, wire recorders

Wire recording

Wire recording is a type of analog audio storage in which a magnetic recording is made on thin steel or stainless steel wire.The wire is pulled rapidly across a recording head which magnetizes each point along the wire in accordance with the intensity and polarity of the electrical audio signal...

 and reel to reel

Reel-to-reel audio tape recording

Reel-to-reel, open reel tape recording is the form of magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording medium is held on a reel, rather than being securely contained within a cassette....

 tape recorder

Tape recorder

An audio tape recorder, tape deck, reel-to-reel tape deck, cassette deck or tape machine is an audio storage device that records and plays back sounds, including articulated voices, usually using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage...

s. They also made phonograph amplifiers that are now used as guitar amps in some cases. These amps' sounds are similar to the sounds of the Fender Princeton

Fender Princeton

The Fender Princeton was a guitar amplifier made by Fender. It was introduced in 1947 and discontinued in 1979. After Fender introduced the Champ Amp in 1948, the Princeton occupied the next to the bottom spot in the Fender line...

. They are valued for their all-tube signal path and hand-wired circuit. Many Webster Chicago record changers were installed in Magnavox home entertainment systems in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Many products were sold under the brand name Webcor