Should be about £1500 a pop I reckon. Think they’re similar to the Altec 515 bass drivers. The binding posts are definitely Altec.
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Sometimes the developments went the other way around — GEC also had a part to play.
Generally, Westrex equipment was built to a much higher specification than Altec.
Dave Fenner, a former Westrex engineer, had many stories about receiving shared plans from Western Electric — the engineers would laugh at them and uprate everything.
Westrex began to decline with the rise of home television and the buyout by Linton in 1958.
Make your own giant paper horns.
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I have had a short demo of Barry’s horns and was rather impressed. @murrayjohnson might be able to add more.
Indeed, obviously inspired by the format pf the Tune Audio Animas but different drivers & possibly horn profiles. The bass horn was a hypex type simmed in Hornresp and uses a 15" Fane Collossus. Lower mid is an Audax 6", upper mid was a Fostex 1" comp driver but now is the Celestion AX unit and tweeter is JBL 2405. Crossovering is all digital and last time I heard them, they were hanging together very well.
I do remember that the construction of this plug for the papier mache horn was alot more involved than he anticipated. If I didn’t already have some huge Seddon Le Cleach horns in my garage, currently waiting to be deployed, I’d be getting this and learning how to use fibreglass!
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Get on with it man! You’re worse than me!
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Which ones do you have? Just been on the Azurahorn site and they get pretty large!
Surely these days you would just make tiny 1:16 models of them
AH160 with 2"throats. Nearly 1m across at the mouth.
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So the biggest one, bit greedy. 
For compression drivers, basically what Ritchie was using.
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It’s that big a mouth but much longer, going back & decreasing to a 2" throat.
Intention being to fit JBL 2482’s at the back end & incorporate within my existing horn set up. But the whole assembly (each channel) then needs a new frame/structure to carry these horns (covering 300-1000 Hz) the Stereolab horns (Vitavox S2 covering 1K- 6K) and the JBL 2405 tweeters above those. All being supported above the straight, upper bass horns which do 70-300.
Lower bass covered by an active sub.
I have briefly had the 2482’s running with the Le Cleach horns & the energy they can introduce is quite something.
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Get Adam to 3D print you one 
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Bingo! I should have read more closely — I thought you were maybe doing it for the Lowther experiment.
If you’d like to live on the edge — feel alive, vital, and fully alert — Stu and I could knock the stand up for you!
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You are welcome to my lashed together horn stands. Not jokng!
