They include the earliest solid body electric guitars and basses to be commercially produced in the United Kingdom.
[3] In 1958, the company contracted Jim Burns to help with the design and to manufacture the bodies and necks while the electrics, paint and finish were completed by Alan Wootton.
The Supersound Short Scale Standard is the earliest solid body electric guitar to be commercially produced in the UK.
[1] Built in 1958 while Jim Burns was still working for Supersound, the body of the guitar is pine with mahogany used for the neck.
[5] In 2009, the BBC reported that a collection of 12 rare Supersound guitars had been uncovered in the basement of a house in Cheltenham.