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Please ID radio
#1

No marking on it at all.. Except plaque on top..

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Tube line up..

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Plaque on top...

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#2

No expert here but it looks like a home made job, especially that grille work looks like it's from an old radiator enclosure!

Ron

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Philco 41-250.    Philco49-500
GE 201.             Philco 39-25
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Philco 37-116.    Philco 70
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#3

I don't know but I will research it when I get home.

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#4

Pretty cool. An inexpensive radio made for hotels to place in their rooms, before TVs became common and cheap enough.

There's another one listed on ebay with the same brass plaque, but different cabinet. Still with the rough finish and the grille that looks like it was taken from a radiator cover

These were originally coin-op jobs sold by the Radio-Matic corp (formerly of Newark, NJ). Apparently, they were designed and built by GE.

https://books.google.com/books?id=-UQEAA...le&f=false

Greg

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#5

Here also is an October 1946 Popular Science article about the radios
https://books.google.com/books?id=YCEDAA...ic&f=false

Greg

"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
#6

Where's the coin slot? The motel probably went bankrupt giving their costumer "free-radio"!




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