In July 1903, The Nicole Record Company, Limited was established with a disc record factory located at Great Saffron Hill, Holborn, London, to record and manufacture disc records which were constructed of a cardboard base coated with celluloid, under the patent of Krieger and Burt, and with the details of the recording printed directly to the disc face in silver paint.

Although The Nicole Record Company, Limited was the manufacturer of the disc records the marketing and distribution of the product was administered by Nicole Frères, Limited. Soon after the launch of the Nicole Record the company began to market its own models of talking machines under the name of 'Nicolephone' in a variety of models.

The earliest 'Nicole' recordings of English and German repertoires were taken by Rudolf Eckhardt, followed by Stephen Carl Porter. In February 1904, John Watson Hawd, who had recently been the Calcutta Branch Manager of The Gramophone & Typewriter, Ltd., joined The Nicole Record Co., Ltd., and by late 1904 had journeyed to India with Stephen Carl Porter to make recordings in Calcutta. ........

In July 1906, Nicole Frères, Limited was placed into liquidation, and with this action, ....... Quelle und mehr