Thieves broke into Orange HQ at Borehamwood on Saturday night (16th August) and stole. 141 Tiny Terror combos with a total retail value of £62,000. . So far, 121 Tiny Terror combos have been legitimately shipped into the UK and . 2 pieces to Hungary, no others have been shipped anywhere in Europe.. . CLICK ON 'MORE...' ABOVE FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE SERIAL NUMBERS OF. THE STOLEN ITEMS.. . . If you are offered a Tiny Terror combo or hear of somebody else who is, . please contact info@omec.com to help us and the police with investigations.. .. There will be a £3000 reward for information which results in the successful. conviction of the criminals who carried out this theft. .

. GUITARIST Magazine plugs into the OR50 - read the review. . . . MI PRO Magazine's cover story is all about ORANGE and includes an interview with CEO Cliff Cooper

Here are the four USA music stores and four UK dealers, all chosen via lottery, who are to stock one of the forty named 40th Anniversary Custom Shop amplifiers. The following girls' names were announced and allocated at a presentation made during the recent LIMS 08. . (Click on the NEWS header)

“I remember,” Orange’s founder and CEO, Cliff Cooper, points out some forty years on, “the shop front lettering taking forever to complete, but looking back it was worth the wait. It truly reflected the ‘Flower Power’ and ‘Psychedelic’ era.” . Orange’s New Compton Street shop-front logo – with its trendy artwork now re-created and enhanced for the first time since the early 1970s – is the commemorative logo for the company’s 40th anniversary year. Plus, it is the design featured on Orange’s official 40th Anniversary T-shirt now available as a limited edition. . If you wish to order a 40th Anniversary T-shirt contact info@omec.com for further details. Alternatively, you can buy it very soon using the Orange website’s shopping basket..

The 40th Anniversary Custom Shop Limited Edition has instantly found its voice in the world. . Orders are coming in fast, and all forty amplifiers - to be made in the first year with different one-off circuits - will soon have been reserved. . . Here's an exclusive update from the Orange Custom Shop about where some of the amps ordered are bound for or have already been shipped.. . “We have Sally and Edith that both went to Germany. Michelle went to Canada. Christina went to Spain. Judy is going to Holland. Lina and Mia are on their way to France. Betty is ready to go to Norway. . Right now we are working on Roberta which will be going to Italy once it’s completed. Our Italian distributor requested that name but many of the amps do not get named until we have played them and checked out their tonal character, playability and response!". .

If you wish to order a 40th Anniversary T-shirt contact info@omec.com for further details. Alternatively, you can buy it very soon using the Orange website’s shopping basket.

To further commemorate its 40th Anniversary, Orange reproduces its classic 1970s 4x12 speaker cabinet design.

This is the third edition of this compact but powerful combo. Orange first introduced the AD5 in 1999 when a total run of 64 combos were hand built point-to-point and fitted with Alnico Eminence 10� speakers. Then 2003 saw the launch of the PCB version loaded with a Jensen P10R Alnico: the production run then was 60 combos..

A new combo-sized cabinet from Orange with an open-backed (OB) design.

Guitarist & Bass (April issue) is one of many guitar magazines and websites that reported back on NAMM 2008 and the excitement and interest generated at the show by the launch of the Orange 40th Anniversary series - the Custom Shop Limited Edition and the OR50.

Available in early summer, reviewers agree that here is a 1 x 12 (Celestion G12 H30) combo with a new and different harmonic quality to the Tiny Terror head.

Orange will be exhibiting at the first ever London International Music Show to be held from June 12th to 15th at London's Excel centre.