Gordon Cameras, 1960.
Coincidentally, the same year a little-know band from Liverpool performed their first concert in Hamburg.

Our roots go back in time when we were originally known as Gordon Audio Visual Ltd

Harry Gordon opened the doors to his first camera shop in Kensington, central London in February 1960. Over the decades that passion for cameras expanded into professional film cameras, with a ready market in corporate and event filming. Driven by demand our business evolved into the provision of high-end audio visual technology in live events.

Our teams have held true to that passion, working with manufacturers and researchers  to support developments in hardware and software, bringing proprietary technology to market and exploring ideas from all quarters.

After 30 years based at our site in London’s Camden Town, the company moved to a building in West London that had once been a Torpedo Factory, hence the subsequent name change to Torpedo Factory Group Ltd.

The Old Torpedo Factory, our home since 2007.
Originally a soap factory which when commandeered by the MOD during the second world war became a manufacturing site for torpedos.

While we love the latest technology, we still keep working items of equipment from the decades gone by. We’re still amazed at how we’re periodically asked to include content in formats that date back as far as the 1950’s and 60’s
Obviously we’ll offer to convert the format to one more current, but if the presenter wants to stick to theirs, that’s fine too!

While the live events business continued to expand, two more divisions were added – systems integration (the design and installation of audio visual equipment in offices) and TFG Stage (the design and installation of audio visual systems in theatres and performing spaces)

TFG’s management started then to explore other technologies that could play a bigger role in homes and industry. In 2021 it defined the “Internet of Things” as the next big growth area, initiating a project to improve the performance of pumps in breweries. This was considered a distraction by some, and led to the live events team moving the business into ConferenceCast Ltd, a company we incorporated as the new home for our live events productions. The transition included our staff (some who’ve been with us since the late 90’s), our clients (many of whom go back even further to the 1980’s) and our entire equipment fleet.

It was a major feat, taking almost a year to complete. At the same time we also moved to new, larger premises in the shadow of the Shard, by London Bridge, providing more space to operate and reducing our delivery times to London’s West End, City and Canary Wharf.

As our business has evolved over the years, adding new technologies, acquiring other live events businesses (Gray Audio Visual, Pinnerton Audio Visual and Orion Audio Visual, among others), we’re looking forward to wowing audiences at events over the next 60 years.

Torpedo Factory Group Ltd was acquired by Aukett Swanke, an architectural practice, before again changing it’s name to Vaniti. It has no further involvement in ConferenceCast or live events.