1945-1959 Post War Tube Radios
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1945-1950
Post War Plastic and Portable Radios with Prewar Electronic Designs
With all the inventory of 1940-41 parts and not much time to retool with newer technology, manufacturers had to convince customers that what they were buying is the latest. SOLUTION cover up the old stuff with a nicer cabinet with a modern look. Plastic made that easier to do than traditional wood.
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Table Sets
Carry Over Models from 1942
A few popular styles from the pre-war period were continued into the post war.BELOW is a Coronado C640 (had tubes labeled Coronado) made by Belmont for Gamble's Department Stores. Identical to 6D111.
The white push button is a reproduction to replace a missing one. All the push buttons can be set. Takes a little practice to set them.
Pre 1950 Post War Cabinet Table Sets
From Canada
Dial Glow
Back Cover
Below chassis front view of Belmont 6D111 / Coronado C640
Sonora WEU-240 turned on with the nice warm orange glow of vacuum tubes!
More Pre 1950 Post War Cabinet Table Sets
Telechron: 8H59 (1947) Claimed to be the First Integrated Electric Clock Radio. Patented in 1946, this is a 4 tube TRF radio with the clock turning on the radio and has a sleep timer and alarm.. A year later Telechron comes out with a full featured 5 tube model. Telchron was a division of GE.
The model 313 is a 6 tube transformerless AM radio. All six tubes are prewar octal tubes. The sixth tube used as a untuned RF amplifier. See SHOWCASE for more info on the model 315.
Portable Radios
Portable Radios with low drain miniature battery tubes designed before WW2 did not have design issues and could move forward with upgrades inside and out.Sonora 101 (1949) Lunchbox Style. Sonora Radio and Television Corp, New York. A 4 tube battery only portable radio.
Lift the lid to turn on and the lid is an antenna and dust cover.
Other views with the lid closed
Midget Radios
Early AM / FM Radios
THE FM STANDARD WARS
Armstrong versus RCA giant and David Sarnoff
"FreModyne" FM Design by Hazeltine Corporation
Selling the new FM band but saving money
Other Early AM FM radios
AM and FM radios were expensive and was not as popular as AM only radios. It would take Americans over two decades to fall in love with FM. Early radio models that aerethe more expensive RCA patented superheterodynes used a dicriminator detection instead of the ratio detector common in FM sets now. For the more budget AM and FM radios a superregenerative FM design call FreModyne was used for a very short time.RCA 2-XF-91 (The Forbes)- Rca Victor, Camden NJ. Transformerless 8 Tube AM/FM Radio with separate AM and FM dial pointers moving on opposite directions.
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