11-19-2014, 12:51 PM
Ron;
That may be more true in this case with the number of dollars involved but it pretty much applies to any radio with a mismatched chassis and cabinet, regardless of make or model. I think that it may have been done by one of the Radio Row stores in New York, Bruce has an example of one of those in the form of a McMurdo chassis inside an American Bosch cabinet, I once saw a radio with Pierce Aero (DeWald) chassis in an earlier highboy cabinet with doors. I would assume that the 15 in 15-U-273 would stand for 15 tubes would it not?
The brand Z model numbers never made much sense to me, this was what I always found nauseating on the alternative forum, someone would as a question about their set and just ramble off the model number. Most companies like Philco had some sort of date code in the model number, with brand Z I can't tell one apart from the other, one can be a 1937 model and another can be 1942 and both can start with a 8,9,10,11, or 12.
Believe it or not I know of someone who has one of those, either that or it was a 15-U-272, I saw it about 12 years ago whilst visiting a fellow collector in Edmonton. I thought that it was rather garish myself, unless you happened to have resided in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg or the place at Versailles, I think that the small oval dial actually cleans it up somewhat.
Regards
Arran
That may be more true in this case with the number of dollars involved but it pretty much applies to any radio with a mismatched chassis and cabinet, regardless of make or model. I think that it may have been done by one of the Radio Row stores in New York, Bruce has an example of one of those in the form of a McMurdo chassis inside an American Bosch cabinet, I once saw a radio with Pierce Aero (DeWald) chassis in an earlier highboy cabinet with doors. I would assume that the 15 in 15-U-273 would stand for 15 tubes would it not?
The brand Z model numbers never made much sense to me, this was what I always found nauseating on the alternative forum, someone would as a question about their set and just ramble off the model number. Most companies like Philco had some sort of date code in the model number, with brand Z I can't tell one apart from the other, one can be a 1937 model and another can be 1942 and both can start with a 8,9,10,11, or 12.
Believe it or not I know of someone who has one of those, either that or it was a 15-U-272, I saw it about 12 years ago whilst visiting a fellow collector in Edmonton. I thought that it was rather garish myself, unless you happened to have resided in the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg or the place at Versailles, I think that the small oval dial actually cleans it up somewhat.
Regards
Arran
