07-28-2009, 04:10 PM
Typically, those sellers don'f know diddly-squat about radios, and if someone ever tried to put them straight, you'd get more cackling and crowing than your ears could endure.
This is a 1937 Philco chassis, installed in a cabinet from a General Motors Raio cabinet from about 1931. They did do an unusually decent job, putting a new panel in it, and a decent mounting for the Philco chassis. The speaker is, i believe, a Wright-DeCoster 12 inch; certainly not what Philco ever used. It was the custom for GM radios to have the sets done in excellent period cabinets, and the speaker always barked at the floor.
It probably works OK, but doggoned if I'd want it as it is. I'd want the General Motors chassis in it, as original.
This is a 1937 Philco chassis, installed in a cabinet from a General Motors Raio cabinet from about 1931. They did do an unusually decent job, putting a new panel in it, and a decent mounting for the Philco chassis. The speaker is, i believe, a Wright-DeCoster 12 inch; certainly not what Philco ever used. It was the custom for GM radios to have the sets done in excellent period cabinets, and the speaker always barked at the floor.
It probably works OK, but doggoned if I'd want it as it is. I'd want the General Motors chassis in it, as original.
