 National began manufacturing their own cylinders, and stopped ordering from Walcutt and Leeds in April 1899.At this time Walcutt and Leeds finally dissolved and Cleveland Walcutt moved to France to help Emile Berliner organize a Gramophone company there, while Leeds would join with L. Reade Catlin to form the Leeds and Catlin Company.This company would sell cylinders for a few years before transitioning into the rising disc record format in 1903 in association with the Talk-O-Phone Company of Ohio.