WELCOME to THE premier Internet site for PHILCO history and reference! PHILCORADIO.COM is a treasure trove of historical information concerning the former Philadelphia Storage Battery Company and Philco Corporation.
This site features comprehensive history and photo gallery sections showing all prewar and some postwar Philco models.

PHILCO PHORUM

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PHILCORADIO.COM IS THE WEB'S NUMBER ONE PHILCO WEBSITE ON YAHOO AND ALTAVISTA - NUMBER THREE ON GOOGLE
(only a Wikipedia article and the Philco-Nordyne site are ahead of us, but we're still trying!)

PROGRAMMING NOTE: The History and Gallery sections are once again up and running, for your viewing pleasure.

This website will be undergoing a major, long-needed facelift in the near future. It is my goal to not only give the entire site a new look, but to finally make some of those grayed-out (non-working) links at left fully functional. Please bear with me while I work on this.

Do you own a Philco Model 60, and have experienced difficulty in figuring out why your set does not match the schematics commonly available? ALL of the documented changes to Model 60, including EIGHT different schematics, are now detailed here.

Have you been wanting to know how you can restring the dial cord on your Models 14, 17, 18, 22L, 23X, 43, 47, 49, 71, 91 or 118? Wonder no more! Learn here how you can do this.

A very comprehensive History of Philco from their humble beginnings in 1892 as the Helios Electric Company through the World War II years is online and ready for your viewing. This section covers several pages and includes many photographs, several of which you have probably never seen before. We hope you will find this feature of the website to be very useful.

The PHILCO Photo Gallery is complete through ALL of the pre-war years (1942 season), and also features a page for the beginning of the 1948 season (June 1947). As time allows, this will become much bigger and better than ever before; eventually, we hope to present photos of Philco radios through the 1950s.

And don't forget to stop by the PHILCORADIO.COM Bookstore, brought to you in conjunction with Amazon.com.

We also have a Site Search page (powered by Google) which will assist you in finding exactly what you are looking for on this site.

Maintaining this site is expensive. If you enjoy this website and/or our Philco Phorum, please help by making a donation using the PayPal Donate button at left. Any help you wish to give toward the maintenance of this website is very much appreciated. Thanks very much!

This site hosts the Philco Phorum, the place to meet and discuss Philco radios with like-minded individuals. Here you may find answers to the questions you may have about Philco sets. You may also place for sale and wanted ads in the Phorum, as long as they are for Philco items.

A place to find those parts and tubes you need to repair your Philco radio is just one click away. Visit our Resources page.

We have free online schematics for those who may find these useful, along with a number of technical tips, hints, etc. in our Tech Section.

NOTE: We are NOT affiliated with Polyconcept USA, the company which formerly marketed products bearing the Philco trademark. Please do not contact us inquiring about these, we do NOT carry their products and cannot help you any further than directing you to their website.

Sincere thanks to all of the Philco-philes who have visited this site since Labor Day 2000.

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Last updated: 08 February 2008

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