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

It’s been a steady journey over 60 years to get ConferenceCast to where it is now.

Our roots go back to 1960 when Harry Gordon opened the doors to his first camera shop in Kensington, central London. Over the decades that passion for cameras expanded into professional film cameras, and display technology more broadly. A passion that naturally evolved into the provision of high-end audio visual technology in live events.

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

Originally a soap factory which when commandeered by the MOD during the second world war became a manufacturing site for torpedos.After 30 years based at our site in London’s Camden Town, the company moved to our current site in West London. The subsequent name change to Torpedo Factory Ltd marked the point the business diversified into areas unrelated to AV that had previously been felt to be a restriction by name.

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 grow, the rest of the company started to explore other areas where technology could play a bigger role in homes and industry. In 2021 it defined the “Internet of Things” as the next big growth area. This dilution of focus at board level led the Live Events management team to move the business into ConferenceCast, a company incorporated for this purpose.
Here we continue to hold the latest technology, incubating new technology and maintaining a fantastic fleet of professional AV equipment.

Torpedo Factory continues to offer design and integration. While also, as part of its IoT epiphany, exploring the integration of software in pumps in breweries, Torpedo Factory was taken over by Aukett Swanky, an architectural practice based in Kings Cross and has no further involvement in ConferenceCast or its Live Events business.