Editing Marshall Amplification (section)

===Park amplification===
The new contract had disenfranchised several of Marshall's former distributors, among them his old friend Johnny Jones. Marshall's contract did not prevent him from building amplifiers outside the company, and so Marshall launched the '''Park''' brand name, inspired by the maiden name of Jones's wife.<ref name=pittman>{{cite book|last=Pittman|first=Aspen|title=The Tube Amp Book|year=2003|publisher=Hal Leonard|isbn=978-0-87930-767-7|pages=76–77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JT1I7Ld76YsC&pg=PA77}}</ref> To comply  with his contract stipulations, these amplifiers had minor circuit changes compared to the regular Marshalls, and minor changes to the appearance. For instance, often the Parks had silver or black front panels instead of the Marshall's gold ones, some of the enclosures were taller or shaped differently, and controls were laid out and labelled differently.<ref name=parkhunter>{{cite news|title=The Park 75|last=Hunter|first=Dave|work=[[Vintage Guitar (magazine)|Vintage Guitar]]|pages=52–54|date=July 2013}}</ref>

Starting in early 1965, Park produced a number of amplifiers including a 45-watt head. Most of these had Marshall layout and components, though some unusual amplifiers were made, such as a 75 watt keyboard amplifier with [[KT88]] tubes. A 2×12-inch combo had the option of sending the first channel into the second, probably inspired by Marshall users doing the same trick with a jumper cable.<ref name=pittman /> The 1972 Park 75 put out about 100 watts by way of two KT88s, whereas the comparable 50-watt [[Marshall JTM 45|Model 1987]] of that time used 2 [[EL34]] tubes.<ref name=parkhunter />

In 1982, Park came to an end, though Marshall later revived the brand for some transistor amplifiers made in Asia.<ref name=pittman /> The Parks made from the mid-1960s to around 1974 (the "golden years"), with point-to-point wiring – rumoured to be "a little hotter" than regular Marshalls – fetch higher prices than comparable "real" Marshalls from the same period.<ref name=parkhunter />