London City Hornet

The Hornet is made in 2006. It's a 50 watts tube-combo with two 75 watts 12" speakers. It has 2 TAD EL34 tubes, one TAD ECC83 tube and two elektro-harmonix ECC83 tubes.
There's a clean channel with a boost and 2 different coloured lead channels. There's also a reverb; all switchable through a four-knob footswitch.
I think it's a good amp for as well gigging as rehearsals but it might be a little loud in your appartment.
Features are good. A lack is the fact that you cannot see the position where the metal knobs are set in. A little dip in the knob is the mark but it's hard to see it. It would heave been much easier if there was a a clear marking, so you could see in one view wether your setup was changed during carrying the amp, or whatever. It would have been a great plus if the boost did not only serve the clean channel, but had an overall function so you could boost the leads allso. That's a pitty.
It is a heavy amp. The weight is 32 kg. It should have had wheels so you don't have to carry it around always.
It came with a usersguide of the 100 watt bulldog head, which has allmost but surely not entirely the same features. Slovenly in my opinion.

I use the amp for playing heavy (garage)blues and rock and a little funk now and again. It can deal with all these stiles. Equalizing does the thing. It can have lots of bass an treble if you want. It can sound more like a fender, but also like a Marshall. It keeps it's own character though.
The clean channel sounds clear, full and open with a good attack. The boost pumps it up a lot. There's a leadchannel with a full warm overdrive and another one with a more sharp and agressive type of overdrive.
The sound is still o.k. on lesser volume. It is entirely not noisy at all, not in the overdrive and definately not on the clean channel but it can be real loud.
The reverb sounds ok but is not very deep though. Could be more.
I play a Gibson SG, a Ibanez Les Paul and a Fender telecaster. They all sound great on it, keeping their own character.
It reacts well on my RMC-3 wah-pedal.

It looks well build. It's all wood and covered with blue tollex. The tollex though, feels a bit soft and I think it could be damaged easily.
I surely would use this amp without a back-up. I think the electric part will do what it has to do.
I have too short to be able to rate this.

The amp should be from a dutch company.
On internet I can't find a website. I can only find a website of the wholesale dealer.
So where it realy comes from???
The shop gave me a one-year warranty.

London city made tube amps in Holland in the 60's and 70's. Now they apparently started up again. I don't know where the amp was build. China maybe. I can't find it anywhere.
I think this is a great amp for the money. It looks good (I don't like the version with the ugly camouflage tollex though).
I have owned a marshall jcm 800 4010 for almost 20 years and I think this one sounds just as good, or even better. It has much more features too. I played a Peavey Delta Blues which sounds good also, but which is much louder and more difficult to control.