VOX ESCORT

Aside from the AC-30, no other amplifier model lasted longer in the Vox line than the Escort. The brain child of Vox sales manager Reg Clark, the battery powered Escort was introduced in 1975 while Vox  was owned by Dallas Industries in the UK. The Escort survived the change in Vox ownership from Dallas Industries to Rose Morris in 1979 and continued to be produced until 1983.

The Escort was designed to look like a scaled down AC-30 amp. As originally introduced in 1975, the Escort was a battery powered amplifier powered by the UK standard PP9 cell.

Vox soon recognized that many people purchasing the battery Escort amp were using it as a practice amp in their homes. For this purpose, it would be desirable to plug the amp into wall current rather than operate on batteries. Vox responded by developing a second version of the Escort amp that could run on either battery or mains power. The amp pictured on this page is the battery/mains version of the Escort.

The Escort had a 2.5 watt RMS amplifier in the form of an integrated circuit chip connected to a single 5.5" speaker. Dual inputs allowed a both guitar and a high impedance microphone to be used simulatneously. Aside from a power switch and a mains supply selector, the only controls were volume and tone.

In 1979, Rose Morris introduced a another Vox amplifier that was quite similar to the Escort. The Vox Super Twin expanded on the abilities of the Escort by having two 5" speaker, a 20 watt amplifier, and reverb. However, the Super Twin was not capable of battery operation.

In 2008, Vox introduced the Pathfinder amplifier which is very similar to the Escort in size and performance.

Vox Escort Instruction card

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