09-21-2014, 11:54 PM
Jayce;
U.S Radio and Television seems to have focused their efforts at designing and building table sets, since they were a smaller company they probably wanted to limit the amount of engineering they needed to a minimum rather then coming up with a completely different line for the console models. That would probably explain why these consoles stopped at a count of 8 tubes, that seems to have been the upper limit for most cathedral and tombstone sets at the time, other then from the bigger outfits like Philco or RCA/G.E. From what I can recall U.S Radio and T.V was actually a pioneer in the development of television, they did just tack that name on for marketing purposes, they were very much involved in mechanical TV in the early 1930s.
Regards
Arran
U.S Radio and Television seems to have focused their efforts at designing and building table sets, since they were a smaller company they probably wanted to limit the amount of engineering they needed to a minimum rather then coming up with a completely different line for the console models. That would probably explain why these consoles stopped at a count of 8 tubes, that seems to have been the upper limit for most cathedral and tombstone sets at the time, other then from the bigger outfits like Philco or RCA/G.E. From what I can recall U.S Radio and T.V was actually a pioneer in the development of television, they did just tack that name on for marketing purposes, they were very much involved in mechanical TV in the early 1930s.
Regards
Arran
