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<p><b>Columbia Graphophone Co. Ltd.</b> was one of the earliest <a href="page.php?w=phonograph">gramophone</a> companies in the <a href="page.php?w=United_Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>.</p>

<p>Founded in 1917 as an offshoot of the American <a href="page.php?w=Columbia_Records">Columbia Phonograph Company</a>, it became an independent British-owned company in 1922 in a management buy-out after the parent company went into receivership.</p>

<p>In 1925, it acquired a controlling interest in its American parent company to take advantage of a new electrical</p><p>
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