12-05-2022, 07:40 PM
There doesn't seem to be much info on pre-Philco Transitones. I posted this on ARF some time ago hoping somebody
had some advertising or a service manual and maybe an idea what the cover looked like (it's missing on mine) but no dice.
I also mentioned a 78 rpm advertising record apparently meant to be played through the radio at the dealers'. I always
thought that was surprising since the primitive single-ended audio can't have been very impressive. Later I discovered a
later iteration of the Transitone (maybe the single dial version) had push-pull output- maybe a Prohibition-era precursor of
the extreme car stereos of the 1980's.
-Dave
had some advertising or a service manual and maybe an idea what the cover looked like (it's missing on mine) but no dice.
I also mentioned a 78 rpm advertising record apparently meant to be played through the radio at the dealers'. I always
thought that was surprising since the primitive single-ended audio can't have been very impressive. Later I discovered a
later iteration of the Transitone (maybe the single dial version) had push-pull output- maybe a Prohibition-era precursor of
the extreme car stereos of the 1980's.
-Dave
